- Your friends will change a lot with time. Let them.
- Carve out an hour every single day to be alone. (Sleeping doesn't count.)
- Embrace the differences between you and people around you. Always be asking yourself, "what can I learn from this person?".
- Working things out between friends is best done in person, not over email. (IM does not count as "in person.") Often someone's facial expressions will tell you more than his/her words.
- Wednesday is the middle of the week; therefore on wednesday night the week is more than half over. You should celebrate accordingly. (It makes thursday and friday a lot more fun.)
- Welcome failure into your lives. It's how we grow. What matters is not that you failed, but that you recovered.
- Do something once in a while for no particular reason or purpose (totally different from your regular life and work), purely for the fun of it.
- It's important to think about the future, but it's more important to be present in the now.
- Things that seem like the end of the world really do become funny with a little time and distance. Knowing this, forget the embarrassment and skip to the good part.
- Every once in a while, there will come an especially powerful moment when you can actually feel that an experience has changed who you are. Embrace these, even if they are painful.
- Don't try to do everything. Balance = well-being.
- Life is too short to stick with something that you're no longer excited about. Switch, even if it complicates things. After all life is about exploring yourself and the entire world, ain't it?
Source: http://www.mitadmissions.org/topics/life/workplay_balance_at_mit/50_things.shtml
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