"Originally published in the United States by Broadway Books, an imprint of the Broadway Doubleday Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, in 2005"--Title page verso.

Don't do all of your reading -- Create a Sunday ritual -- Drop classes every semester -- Start long-term projects the day they are assigned -- Make your bed -- Apply to ten scholarships a year -- Build study programs -- Befriend a professor -- Become a club president -- Read a newspaper every day -- Do one thing better than anyone else you know -- Avoid daily to-do lists -- Learn to give up -- Never nap -- Sign up for something your first week -- Always be working on a "grand project" -- Take art history and astronomy -- Blow the curve once a term -- Ask one question at every lecture -- Jump into research as soon as possible -- Pay your dues -- Study in fifty-minute chunks -- Schedule your free time -- Dress nicely for class -- Decorate your room -- Start studying two weeks in advance -- Write outside of class -- Eat alone twice a day -- Find an escape -- Take hard courses early on -- Don't study in your room -- Don't study in groups -- Join an honors program -- Do schoolwork every day -- Attend guest lectures -- Exercise five days a week -- Stay in touch -- Tack on an extra major or minor -- Meet often with your adviser -- Don't get a normal job -- Use three days to write a paper -- Don't undersleep, don't oversleep -- Relax before exams -- Make friends your #1 priority -- Don't binge drink -- Ignore your classmate's grades -- Seek out phenomenal achievers -- Learn to listen -- Never pull an all-nighter -- Laugh every day -- Use high-quality notebooks -- Keep a work-progress journal -- Seek out fun -- Inflate your ambition -- Get involved with your major department -- Care about your grades, ignore your G.P.A. -- Always go to class -- Set arbitrary deadlines -- Eat healthy -- Volunteer quietly -- Write as if going for a Pulitzer -- Attend political rallies -- Maximize your summers -- Choose goals, explore routes -- Don't take breaks between classes -- Don't network -- Publish op-eds -- Use a filing cabinet -- Find a secret study space -- Study with the quiz-and-recall method -- Empty your in-box -- Relax before sleep -- Start fast, end slow -- Spend a semester studying abroad -- "Don't have no regrets".