Seven Year Degree is a college guide for first time and first gen students, parents and educators.
What Makes College So Hard
Many think that what is hard about college is living in dorms, or the difficult classes or meeting new people. And those things are hard. But those are not the biggest things, the biggest difficulty about college is all the things you no longer do that you did in High School. What makes High School…
5 Steps To Getting A’s For Those Who Are Not Type A
Some people can do the work and just get that A. However, that’s not most people. Most of us have difficulty and some, A LOT of difficulty, especially those with creative minds. Having a creative mind means always living in the now, following the current thought, and losing the past and the future. This makes…
Master’s Thesis (with ADHD)
Writing a thesis is no cake walk. People can spend anywhere from weeks to years working on their Master’s Thesis. The reason why I think it can be so difficult is because at no time in our graduate education does anyone actually teach us how to write one, how to prepare for one and therefore,…
A Prelude to a New Book
Dear students, I was reading this NYTimes article about how to write a thesis as I am writing my Master’s Thesis. It is hard to believe but it has been over five years since I created this book. Not many people have read it. But it is like a capsule about my time in college.…
How To Study For An Exam
One of the toughest things about school is of course exams. They are stressful, they are long and they are difficult. This is how I studied as an undergrad: I usually stress about it a lot and so I put it off. As I get closer to the date, I procrastinate, clean, go on social…
1st day of MBA
This will be a little different. Less description on what to do and more about my experience in my first day of MBA. Today was my business school orientation. I’m doing a program abroad, my second Master’s in Executive Business Administration. Thoughts were that this was different from any other school orientation. They didn’t take…
Finding Focus- The Real Battle Of Being a Student.
The first month of January of 2018 I took on a big goal for me: focus. Focus is elusive for me and most other students. It is something we strive for but for me, with a clear case of un-diagnosed and untreated ADD, it was not easy to deal with. Like other people with ADD I’ve…
How to Do Well on Standardized Tests
The first thing to know about standardized tests is that no one does well their first time. Not me, not my friends who went to Yale or Harvard, not those who went to a local community college. The difference between the Yale and the community college grad, is that the Yale applicant took it a…
To Defer or Not Defer Grad School
Slava was my mentor in college: he was older, a grad student and we were from the same country and he always had great advice for me when I needed it. One day I asked Slava if he recommended that I go to grad school. He said no, but if I do, I should do…
Once You Graduate, Everything is Homework
One reason why it is important to pick the right major and profession is because you cannot stop learning just because you graduated. You will be expected to learn everyday to advance yourself. It means reading journals, text books and magazines on your trade. It means taking classes and it means never stopping to learn,…
Don’t Be Ambitious, Be Pura Vida
Costa Rican’s have a saying: Pura Vida, Full Life. It is not successful life, or happy life, or life of dreams, it’s just full, a life lived to the fullest. If you are going to college, almost every one you ever met told you to study hard, go to a good school, get a good…
As You Go Off To College, Do Not Do This.
For anyone who is about to start college, do drugs, smoke cigarettes try beer but abstain from one thing no matter how much peer pressure you get, don’t read Ayn Rand. I just read in Raw Story about the dangers of Ayn Rand and I can tell you, that reading her books as an 18…
Getting a Handle on Your Social Media Addiction
In college and long after college, I was super prone to distractions. In fact I’m distracted right now but I figure I might as well help. I found that in times of stress, I would automatically go to social media sites and email. I would be on them constantly. I didn’t need to do but…
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