Forbidden Knowledge - College
101 Things NOT Every Student Should Know How to Do
Published on 18. October 2010
256 pages
978-1-4405-0727-4 (ISBN)
Description
Con your way into a scholarship.Sleep with your professors.Crash a closed course.Sell your organs for beer money.Get textbooks for free.And more...
This book has schooled its readers before...but not like this. This guide is a full-scale assault on the ivory towers of academia, teaching students the ins and outs of college life--from how to handle obnoxious roommates (retaliation) to how to make it onto the dean's list (cheat).
With 101 entries providing a crash course in college survival, this next Forbidden Knowledge installment is perfect for senior and freshman fans alike who aren't afraid of double-secret probation.
This book has schooled its readers before...but not like this. This guide is a full-scale assault on the ivory towers of academia, teaching students the ins and outs of college life--from how to handle obnoxious roommates (retaliation) to how to make it onto the dean's list (cheat).
With 101 entries providing a crash course in college survival, this next Forbidden Knowledge installment is perfect for senior and freshman fans alike who aren't afraid of double-secret probation.
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Forbidden Knowledge - College
101 Things NOT Every Student Should Know How to Do
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11/2010
Walking Stick Press
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Matt Forbeck is an award-winning and New York Times bestselling author and game designer. He has more than thirty novels and countless games published to date. His latest work includes Dungeonlogy, the Star Wars: Rogue One junior novel, the last two editions of The Marvel Encyclopedia, his Monster Academy YA fantasy novels, and the upcoming Shotguns & Sorcery roleplaying game based on his novels. He lives in Beloit, WI, with his wife and five children, including a set of quadruplets. For more about him and his work, visit Forbeck.com.
Matt Forbeck is an award-winning and New York Times bestselling author and game designer. He has more than thirty novels and countless games published to date. His latest work includes Dungeonlogy, the Star Wars: Rogue One junior novel, the last two editions of The Marvel Encyclopedia, his Monster Academy YA fantasy novels, and the upcoming Shotguns & Sorcery roleplaying game based on his novels. He lives in Beloit, WI, with his wife and five children, including a set of quadruplets. For more about him and his work, visit Forbeck.com.
Content
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Introduction
- Contents
- 1. Choose a Party School:
- 2. Write the Best Admissions Essay Ever:
- 3. Ace Your Admissions Interview:
- 4. Lie Your Way into the Ivy League:
- 5. Con Your Way into an Athletic Scholarship:
- 6. Pack for College in Three Minutes:
- 7. Break Up with Your High School Sweetheart:
- 8. Survive the First Week:
- 9. Choose the Easiest College Major:
- 10. Find the Best Dorm:
- 11. Live Rent Free:
- 12. Freak Out Your Roommate:
- 13. Sleep with Your Professors:
- 14. Use Sex to Pay for College:
- 15. Draw Up a Roommate Contract:
- 16. Get into Secret Societies:
- 17. Major in Laziness:
- 18. Pimp Your Dorm:
- 19. Beat the Freshman Fifteen:
- 20. Get Your Textbooks for Free:
- 21. Treat Your Folks Like an ATM:
- 22. Get the Best Seat in Class:
- 23. Survive Rush Week:
- 24. Haze the Next Pledge Class:
- 25. Start Your Own Fraternity:
- 26. Get Served Underage:
- 27. Throw a Kicking Keg Party:
- 28. Crash a Frat Party:
- 29. Steal Stuff from the Dining Hall:
- 30. Boot and Rally:
- 31. Put a Horse in the Dean's Office:
- 32. Blow Off Your Folks:
- 33. Get Away with Being Late to Class:
- 34. Take Your Friend's Room Apart in Fifteen Minutes:
- 35. Get the Most Out of Class:
- 36. Stay Awake During a Lecture:
- 37. Get Revenge on Your Roommate:
- 38. Sabotage Your Hall's Bathroom:
- 39. Get Someone Strip Searched in the Library:
- 40. Make Your Hallway Think You're Having Lots of Sex:
- 41. Find a Campus Booty Call:
- 42. Give Your RA a Nervous Breakdown:
- 43. Fake a Computer Virus with Your BlackBerry:
- 44. Cheat Your Way Through Exams:
- 45. Survive Your First Christmas Vacation:
- 46. Get a College Loan with Bad Credit:
- 47. Pretend to Be a Visiting Professor:
- 48. Fund Your Way Through College with a Dotcom:
- 49. Get the Perfect Internship:
- 50. Fake Throwing Someone Out of a Window:
- 51. Screw Up Your Professor's Lecture:
- 52. Survive the Roommate from Hell:
- 53. Pass Your Exams Without Studying:
- 54. Go Streaking Through the Quad:
- 55. Get Away with Not Doing Homework:
- 56. Get Someone Else to Do Your Laundry:
- 57. Write a Term Paper in Five Minutes:
- 58. Plagiarize Without Getting Caught:
- 59. Become the Big Man on Campus:
- 60. Avoid Getting Crabs:
- 61. Pretend You're Pre-Med:
- 62. Graduate Early:
- 63. Make College Last Forever:
- 64. Kidnap the Dean:
- 65. Elevator Surf:
- 66. Get College Credits by Playing Video Games and Watching Star Trek and Porn:
- 67. Survive Spring Break:
- 68. Gain the Respect of Your Professors:
- 69. Survive a Semester Abroad:
- 70. Sabotage a College Football Game:
- 71. Sell Your Organs for Beer Money:
- 72. Compete in a Prank War with a Rival College:
- 73. Binge Drink on a Budget:
- 74. Crash a Closed Course:
- 75. Ace a Multiple Choice Exam:
- 76. Skip Classes:
- 77. Get Away with Drinking in Class:
- 78. Construct and Use a Beer Bong:
- 79. Organize a Campus Protest:
- 80. Get Off Paying Library Fines:
- 81. Persuade Your Professor to Bump Up Your Grades:
- 82. Read a Book Without Really Reading:
- 83. Pull an All-Nighter for a Big Test:
- 84. Get an Extension on Your Paper:
- 85. Swallow a Goldfish:
- 86. Survive a Meningitis Outbreak:
- 87. Tell If You've Got Alcohol Poisoning:
- 88. Grow Marijuana in Your Dorm Room:
- 89. Run a Wet T-shirt Competition:
- 90. Recognize When You've Been Given GHB:
- 91. Challenge a Dorm Damage Report:
- 92. Kick Ass at Beer Pong:
- 93. Avoid Being Scammed by a Bartender:
- 94. Get Rid of Dorm Odors:
- 95. Hack the Library Computers:
- 96. Passed Out Buddy Ownage:
- 97. Ruin Your Roommate's Life:
- 98. Pass a Drug Test:
- 99. Write Your Valedictorian Speech:
- 100. Stand Out at a Career Fair:
- 101. Sue Your Alma Mater When You Can't Get a Job:
