What Every College Student Should Know is a guide to discovering the best teachers at your school and learning everything you can from them. Here, the unique writing combination of a professor and a student provides you with perspectives from both sides of the equation. Youll learn:

• What questions to ask in selecting an instructor
• How to evaluate professors based on the first class sessions
• What to look for in a syllabus and grading policies
• How to identify a professors teaching style and how to adapt to it

Even the most outgoing students can expect only limited contact with their professors in the classroom, so the authors also provide tactics to take full advantage of meetings outside regular class time, such as:

• Advice on how to review your exam or paper with your professor
• Ways to build a relationship with a teacher and get invaluable feedback on your work
• Tips on how to get the best recommendations from professors

Ernie Lepore is the director of the Center for Cognitive Science at Rutgers University as well as a professor in the philosophy department. Sarah-Jane Leslie, a student in the Rutgers University Honors Program, is a National Merit Scholar and has been elected to Phi Beta Kappa.

"What a great idea for a book. A senior undergraduate (with a 4.0 average) and a distinguished faculty member team up to write a provocative (and sometimes controversial) guide to undergraduate academic life. This book is filled with useful advice to students that they are not likely to get anywhere else, from how to identify the best teachers to asking questions in class and approaching a faculty member for a letter of recommendation."Richard Foley, Dean, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, New York University