He wrote this book for two major reasons: first to give new students a guide to university and secondly to pass on information that, as a student and now a professor, he has found successful. Each chapter covers a different aspect of university life from "Getting ready to Succeed" to taking lecture notes, studying, preparing for exams, and so on. His last chapter gives an overview of Canadian universities in other provinces. The appendix gives an explicit explanation complete with examples of how to write an essay, a book report, and a laboratory report.