Hardly Working at College: The Overachieving Underperformer's Guide to Graduating Without Cracking a Book

By Chris Morran

The Only Book Your Professors Don't Want You To BuyAuthor Chris Morran, already hailed as an idol to the idle for his Hardly Working: The Overachieving Underperformer's Guide to Doing as Little as Possible in the Office, now offers salvation to the student set.In Hardly working at College: The Overachieving Underperformer's Guide to Graduating Without Cracking a Book, Morran dispenses thoughtful advice on how to sleep, slack, and swill your way to good grades and a college diploma.Why read the full assignment when a judicious scan of a textbook's intro and the classmate's notes can supply you with all the knowledge you need to pass? Where is the best place to sit so you won't be called on in class -- and if you are, how do you hide that you haven't read the assigment? Hardly Working at College focuses on the subjects that really matter, allowing you to live the higher-education high life while your classmates are stuck in the library trying to catch up.Covering everything from why turning in an unreadable first draft is always a good idea to how to avoid contributing to group projects (and still claim all the credit) Hardly working at College is the one book that should be on every student's syllabus. It's incontrovertible proof that the hardest part about college is getting in.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1416906606
• ISBN13: 9781416906605
• Release Date: July 2005
• Publisher: Gallery
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.62 lbs.
• Dimensions: 7.3" x 0.8" x 5.8"

Customer Reviews

Way funnier than it had any right to be.

Hardly Working at College would make just as good a gift for a recent college graduate as it would for someone who is just starting, the tips in this book will be so familiar to anyone who recently completed college as to give them unpleasant flashbacks (when they're not laughing hysterically.) Basically a collection of ways to screw the school system, Hardly Working at College has everything sneaky that you did to make yourself seem like a better student than you actually are. Some of my favorites: The best embarrassing illnesses to use when calling out sick Getting a job at the library to avoid buying textbooks How to get the easiest job in any group assignment Funny, funny, funny. Highly recommended.