Focus on your work even if everyone else around you is not.

Something pissing you off? Take a deep breath and try to list 3 things that went well, no matter how small.

Let tiny, meaningless and insignificant things make you happy beyond reason.

It is a 6-step dance for a successful request for a recommendation letter

Stop fucking procrastinating.

Don't listen to your body all the time. Listen to your soul. Sometimes cookie dough ice cream should be eaten with the cookie dough saved for after the ice cream's gone.

Strangers can be amazingly kind, but sometimes you should take a step back and appreciate ordinary kindness from those closest to you.

StarCrossedDuelist wrote:

When you find you can't relax no matter what you try, pretend to be a cat.

I always pretend it's nighttime or a heavy gray rain is falling out side - that the world and all its responsibilities are temporarily put on hold.

But screw that now I'm gonna be a kitteh.

Be careful not to let another person's emotions affect you too much. Sometimes a little emotional distance is necessary. It doesn't mean you don't still love them.

Spoil your friends whenever you can. You never know if you ever have another chance.

Lesson 1: When the prospect of revising a paper seems overwhelming, print it out and take your red pen to it. Seeing it laid out on the page and being able to hold and feel it will, at the very least, change your perception of it.

Lesson 2: Read the fine print to be sure that something you're considering buying/doing will apply to your situation.

Stephen wrote:

Strive for excellence in yourself, and nothing more. Perfection is the domain of the inhuman.

I like this quote.