The dirty secret colleges and universities keep hidden is that between 40% and 60% of college freshmen don't graduate. Despite the best efforts of colleges to create environments that engage and embrace these students, 30% drop out after their first year. These aren't dumb students, they are usually students who are underperforming. If you aren't accomplishing what you are capable of accomplishing this book will help you figure out why and then develop a plan of attack to change keystone habits that will put you on the path to success. Students who end their freshman year with a grade point average (GPA) between 2.0 and 3.0 are often called the "Murky Middle" and labeled "At Risk Students." They are in danger of failing out of college or dropping out of college. Inside Higher Ed reports that students who end their first year with a GPA below a 2.0 only have a 12% chance of graduating. Students with a GPA between 2.0 and 2.2 have a 32% chance of graduating. The good news is you can turn your academic career around. Even if you ended your first year with a 2.0 or lower it is not only possible to graduate, it is possible for you to graduate with a 4.0. You just need to understand how the academic system works and stop using time honored study habits that just don't cut it in college today. This book helps you find what is keeping you from living up to your potential, offers you worksheets and checklists to help you define a new path, shows you how to use a three-tier SMART goal setting process to focus your energy, and it helps you identify and change habits that are prevent you from being successful. The best part is you can do all of this, change your GPA, graduate with honors, and still have plenty of time to socialize with friends, be involved in co-curricular and extra-curricular activities, get internships, study abroad, and even watch TV. This book is more than just a book on study skills (although study skills are covered). This book helps people manage resources like time, energy, and sleep. The book and teaches you to leverage the people on campus who are there to help you be successful. But most importantly, it helps you figure out where things are going wrong. If you need to turn your academic career around this book will show you how. All you have to do is be willing to change the way you are currently approaching college and follow the guidance offered in this book.The author has spent nearly 30 years teaching at colleges and universities. He taught at schools with under 1,000 students to nearly 30,000 students, from a private religious college to a military university, community colleges to graduate programs. In each of those schools he coached and mentored students to success. He shares what he has learned in this book in plain, simple, easy to understand language. His no-nonsense approach is refreshing and fun. Everything he offers is based on empirical research and his own experiences. Perhaps even more important Dr. Todd Holm was one of those students who ended his sophomore year with a GPA just barely above a 2.0, but made the Dean's List his last three semesters. He knows what it is like to be that student and how to turn it around from both a student's perspective and a faculty member's perspective. If anyone has the experience and skills that it takes to turn your academic life around it is Dr. Todd Holm. If college was a video game this is the cheatbook that teaches you how to hit the hidden reset button without losing everything you have accomplished this far. Hit the reset button on your academic career.