Your Guide to Slide: The Slacker's Guide to College

100 Pages·1995·8.506 MB·English

by  Brady Lessard, Mickey Gill

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The Slacker's Guide to College
Get a College Degree
"In Four Years or Lesswith No Stress"
Brady Lessard
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PUBLISHING
FinePrint Publishing Company· Longwood, Florida
PUBLISHED BY
Fine Print Publishing Company
P.O. Box 916401
Longwood, Florida 32791-6401
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PUBLISHING
ISBN 0-9640713-1-2
Text
Copyright © 1994, 1995 by Brady Lessard
Design and Cover by Mickey Gill
Copyright © 1995 by Fine Print Publishing Company
Editor
Frank J. Crane
All rights reserved worldwide. No part of this work may
be reproduced or transmitted or stored in any form by
any means, electronic or otherwise, without permission
in writing from the publisher.
Printed in the United States of America
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mater, Ball State University. The plaque reads,
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"Dedicated to all the students before and after
me."
What a cool cat.
Dave, on behalf of all of us who refuse to sweat in
pursuit of a college degree, I dedicate this book to
you.
Davefrom behind. . .not really,
but it could be.
contents
Chapter 1
All Aboard! - 1
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Hello Down There 3
Get That Degree 4
The Big Lie 4
An Easier Way 5
The Blowoff That Wasn't 6
Take the Slide Challenge 7
Life Is Pass/Fail 8
Parting Words 9
Chapter 2
How to Select a Schedule 11
Wake Up, Slacker 13
The Big Two 15
The Professor: For Real, or a Joker? 19
The Hours: Slacker's or Chump's? 20
Exact Same Class, or Pain in the ... ? 21
Attendance 25
Grading System: Straight or on a Curve? 26
Tests and Papers: Few or Many? 27
All Together Now:
The Schedule Selection Checklist 29
Parting Words 29
Chapter 3
Hel ! 31
The Rules 33
Who and How 33
"Bad" Students 34
Easy Does It 37
Parting Words 39
Chapter 4
The Ten-Minute Term Paper. 41
Sound Familiar?
Ten-Minute Daydreams
Writing the Paper: A Case Study
Parting Words
Chapter 5
The Science of Excuses 51
When You're Screwed, Dude 53
SOE: The Science of Excuses 55
Basic SOE 56
Advanced SOE: The Soft Spot Technique 57
Parting Words 58
Chapter 6
Attendance-Do You Need It? 61
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Go or No? 63
Lessons from the Master 63
Tramps Like Us 64
Parting Words 67
The Slacker's Guide to Test Strategy 68
Chapter 7
Me? Work? 71
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The "J" Word 73 \
Delaying Tactics 74 \
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Misconceptions 75
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Slacker Jobs 75 \
Parting Words 79 \
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Chapter 8
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The Party Principle 81 \
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Party Time 83 \
What It All Means 84 \
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Party Rules 85
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Simplify Your Space 86 \
The Last Eviction 89 \
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Parting Words 90

All Aboard!
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