Practical Advice for College and Beyond
By Nathan Nobis
Freely available in Google Docs and PDF; also available in Kindle and Audible (although currently with a small error that's being corrected); other freely available formats are forthcoming!
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College gives students a remarkable amount of freedom—but succeeding in college requires knowing what to do with it.
The College Success Rulebook offers straightforward, practical advice for becoming a more successful and independent college student. It explains many of the habits and expectations that professors often assume students already understand, even though students may never have been explicitly taught them.
How should you prepare for class? What should you do when you don’t understand something? How can you use office hours effectively? What does it mean to study well rather than simply study longer? How should you use AI without allowing it to do the learning for you? And what habits will help you not only earn better grades, but become someone others can depend on?
Drawing on years of experience working with college students, Nathan Nobis offers concise guidance on attending and preparing for class, reading and writing, studying, managing time, communicating with professors, using technology and AI wisely, seeking help, responding to feedback, and developing your own ideas.
The larger goal is not simply to follow a collection of rules. It is to develop habits of excellence: habits that can help you learn difficult things, think independently, do good work, and prepare for life beyond college.
The College Success Rulebook offers straightforward, practical advice for becoming a more successful and independent college student. It explains many of the habits and expectations that professors often assume students already understand, even though students may never have been explicitly taught them.
How should you prepare for class? What should you do when you don’t understand something? How can you use office hours effectively? What does it mean to study well rather than simply study longer? How should you use AI without allowing it to do the learning for you? And what habits will help you not only earn better grades, but become someone others can depend on?
Drawing on years of experience working with college students, Nathan Nobis offers concise guidance on attending and preparing for class, reading and writing, studying, managing time, communicating with professors, using technology and AI wisely, seeking help, responding to feedback, and developing your own ideas.
The larger goal is not simply to follow a collection of rules. It is to develop habits of excellence: habits that can help you learn difficult things, think independently, do good work, and prepare for life beyond college.
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© 2026 Nathan Nobis. Licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0). You may share and adapt this work for any purpose, including commercially, provided appropriate credit is given. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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