Introduction

My son Martin went to college today. He is attending a small liberal arts university outside of Chicago. I am sitting in the Caribbean. I am finishing a three-year contract working as the Director of a small national museum. I have one week left.

When I came to the Caribbean I thought I would finally have time to write my book "How to B Average." Well, it is three years later...

This blog will be the basics of that book. But now it is just the notes that I want to write to my son. This blog will detail my experience in higher education. And hopefully it will distill a few pointers that will help him be a better student.

I have many skills and I can do many things. But after a five year undergraduate degree in architecture, a Master's degree in architecture, a Master's degree in history, and a Ph.D. what I am an expert at is going to school.

This blog does not offer ways of "cheating." This blog does not teach you how to "manipulate" people. This blog does not give you tricks to make college "easy."

What it will do is tell you how I came to understand that achieving the most education out of my higher education was not always the traditional way that most people think it is. Going to college is more than going to school. It is learning how to learn.

Learning to learn...learning to be a student...learning to love college...

Now that is something I can teach you.