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Major in Success: Make College Easier, Fire Up Your Dreams, and Get a Great Job

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Major in Success can be misleading if you buy by impulse. It WONT teach you how to study or how to have great grades. However, it will do more than that - it WILL teach you to be successful and get your dream career.

What if you don't know what your dream career is? Well, you are not alone! Before reading this book I didn't know either, but the first part of the book will guide you in learning all your interests and then mix them to discover the perfect job for you.

And if that wasn't enough, you will then learn how to actually get it: break your fears, enrich your life, and have fun in college, while building the curriculum and getting the connections that will get you there.

This book changed my life and totally inspired me. It also has some wonderful cartoons and inspiring stories about real people. And toward the end has a wonderful manual, The Rules of Being Human, that our soul certainly read before dropping on earth but which, according to the last term of the contract, it forgot.

A refreshing attitude toward college, wonderfully written and inspiring, Major in Success is more than a book about success in college; it is a book about success in LIFE - all aspects of it.

PS: In case you didn't get the message: *buy it*; it will change your life!

It's a very well written book. It helps you go on the right path to your passion & career. I highly recommend this for high school and college students.

It's sure to say this simple, short, easy to read book changed my life. It's very inspiring and a must-have. I bought several copies for my friends and they love it.

This book is very well written and inspirational. It has put many of my college experiences in perspective, and I look forward to implementing many of Combs' strategies. I definitely recommend this title to any college student, or recent graduate.

Patrick Combs writes a concise, yet informative text about succeeding in college. This information can also be applied to success in life.

(this review is of the 3rd edition)
I picked this book up at the career counselor office at Rutgers. I felt as though I was meant to find this book. At the core, Combs professes great values: do what you love, don't stop believing in yourself, be proactive, well roundedness is more important than amazing grades. Good ideas on how to make yourself look better in interviews such as finding articles and joining organizations (he mentions national organizations, but others can be just as great). For someone entering or still in college, this is a great book to read, especially for business oriented students, but still great for anyone else (I'm a math major with interest in psychology and outdoor camps/experiential learning).

In all genuineness the information the book has to offer is borderline irrelevant. The book at best is an attempt to question the reader's intelligence and in fact Combs does an excellent job of stereotyping the reader. The generalization Combs uses in his writing was an instant turn off. This is another pseudo inspirational book playing off people's inefficiencies to turn a profit.