College Success Cheat Sheet

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The business colloquium today was a presentation made by Jonathan Davidson who is a co-founder of Presetperfect.com, development officer for La Sierra University, and was a ditch boy for J.D. Young Construction. Davidson also created a book titled “The College Success Cheat Sheet: Simple Ideas to Help You Study Less and Learn More” from June 2012 to July 2015. Jonathan Davidson received the president’s award and dean’s challenge award while attending La Sierra University. Davidson’s presentation focus was on selling binary of the knowledge you have and creating that with a business makes very low risk for you of no investment in money to just time. In addition, Davidson talked about that suffering and lots of hard work equals mild success in

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