pilosopogyno:

• When a person laughs too much, even on stupid things, that person is sad deep inside
• When a person sleeps a lot, that person is lonely
• When a person talks less and if he talks fast, that person is keeping a secret
• When a person can’t cry, that person is weak
• When a person eats in an abnormal way, that person is in tension
• When a person cries on little things, that person is softhearted
• When someone asks about you although that someone is busy, he/she really loves you

pilosopogyno:

1. Promise Nothing
   Just do what you most enjoy doing.
   Hidden benefit: You will always over-deliver.
2. Offer Nothing
   Just share what you have with those who express an interest in it.
   Hidden benefit: Takes the pressure off of wanting other people to see you as valuable or important.
3. Expect Nothing
   Just enjoy what you already have. It’s plenty.
   Hidden benefit: You will realize how complete your life is already.
4. Need Nothing
   Just build up your reserves and your needs will disappear.
   Hidden benefit: Your boundaries will be extended and filled with space.
5. Create Nothing
   Just respond well to what comes to you.
   Hidden benefit: Openness.
6. Hype Nothing
   Just let quality sell by itself.
   Hidden benefit: Trustability.
7. Plan Nothing
   Just take the path of least resistance.
   Hidden benefit: Achievement will become effortless.
8. Learn Nothing
   Just let your body absorb it all on your behalf.
   Hidden benefit: You will become more receptive to what you need to know in the moment.
9. Become No One
   Just be more of yourself.
   Hidden benefit: Authenticity.
10. Change Nothing
    Just tell the truth and things will change by themselves.
    Hidden benefit: Acceptance.

immakiddo:

I wish I had read this before college

immakiddo:

excuse-my-charisma:

Dear Class of 2011,

As you begin your college experience, I thought I’d leave you with the things that, in retrospect, I think are important as you navigate the next four years. I hope that some of them are helpful.

Here goes…

1. Your friends will change a lot over the next four years. Let them.
2. Call someone you love back home a few times a week, even if just for a few minutes.
3. In college more than ever before, songs will attach themselves to memories. Every month or two, make a mix cd, mp3 folder, whatever - just make sure you keep copies of these songs. Ten years out, they’ll be as effective as a journal in taking you back to your favorite moments.
4. Take naps in the middle of the afternoon with reckless abandon.
5. Adjust your schedule around when you are most productive and creative. If you’re nocturnal and do your best work late at night, embrace that. It may be the only time in your life when you can.
6. If you write your best papers the night before they are due, don’t let people tell you that you “should be more organized” or that you “should plan better.” Different things work for different people. Personally, I worked best under pressure - so I always procrastinated… and always kicked ass (which annoyed my friends to no end). ;-) Use the freedom that comes with not having grades first semester to experiment and see what works best for you.
7. At least a few times in your college career, do something fun and irresponsible when you should be studying. The night before my freshman year psych final, my roommate somehow scored front row seats to the Indigo Girls at a venue 2 hours away. I didn’t do so well on the final, but I haven’t thought about psych since 1993. I’ve thought about the experience of going to that show (with the guy who is now my son’s godfather) at least once a month ever since.
8. Become friends with your favorite professors. Recognize that they can learn from you too - in fact, that’s part of the reason they chose to be professors.
9. Carve out an hour every single day to be alone. (Sleeping doesn’t count.)
10. Go on dates. Don’t feel like every date has to turn into a relationship.
11. Don’t date someone your roommate has been in a relationship with.
12. When your friends’ parents visit, include them. You’ll get free food, etc., and you’ll help them to feel like they’re cool, hangin’ with the hip college kids.
13. In the first month of college, send a hand-written letter to someone who made college possible for you and describe your adventures thus far. It will mean a lot to him/her now, and it will mean a lot to you in ten years when he/she shows it to you.
14. Embrace the differences between you and your classmates. Always be asking yourself, “what can I learn from this person?” More of your education will come from this than from any classroom.
15. All-nighters are entirely overrated.
16. For those of you who have come to college in a long-distance relationship with someone from high school: despite what many will tell you, it can work. The key is to not let your relationship interfere with your college experience. If you don’t want to date anyone else, that’s totally fine! What’s not fine, however, is missing out on a lot of defining experiences because you’re on the phone with your boyfriend/girlfriend for three hours every day.
17. 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.
18. Take risks.
19. Don’t be afraid of (or excited by) the co-ed bathrooms. The thrill is over in about 2 seconds.
20. 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.)
21. Welcome failure into your lives. It’s how we grow. What matters is not that you failed, but that you recovered.
22. Take some classes that have nothing to do with your major(s), purely for the fun of it.
23. It’s important to think about the future, but it’s more important to be present in the now. You won’t get the most out of college if you think of it as a stepping stone.
24. When you’re living on a college campus with 400 things going on every second of every day, watching TV is pretty much a waste of your time and a waste of your parents’ money. If you’re going to watch, watch with friends so at least you can call it a “valuable social experience.”
25. Don’t be afraid to fall in love. When it happens, don’t take it for granted. Celebrate it, but don’t let it define your college experience.
26. Much of the time you once had for pleasure reading is going to disappear. Keep a list of the books you would have read had you had the time, so that you can start reading them when you graduate.
27. Things that seem like the end of the world really do become funny with a little time and distance. Knowing this, forget the embarassment and skip to the good part.
28. Every once in awhile, 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.
29. No matter what your political or religious beliefs, be open-minded. You’re going to be challenged over the next four years in ways you can’t imagine, across all fronts. You can’t learn if you’re closed off.
30. If you need to get a job, find something that you actually enjoy. Just because it’s work doesn’t mean it has to suck.
31. Don’t always lead. It’s good to follow sometimes.
32. Take a lot of pictures. One of my major regrets in life is that I didn’t take more pictures in college. My excuse was the cost of film and processing. Digital cameras are cheap and you have plenty of hard drive space, so you have no excuse.
33. Your health and safety are more important than anything.
34. Ask for help. Often.
35. Half of you will be in the bottom half of your class at any given moment. Way more than half of you will be in the bottom half of your class at some point in the next four years. Get used to it.
36. In ten years very few of you will look as good as you do right now, so secretly revel in how hot you are before it’s too late.
37. In the long run, where you go to college doesn’t matter as much as what you do with the opportunities you’re given there. The MIT name on your resume won’t mean much if that’s the only thing on your resume. As a student here, you will have access to a variety of unique opportunities that no one else will ever have - don’t waste them.
38. On the flip side, don’t try to do everything. Balance = well-being.
39. Make perspective a priority. If you’re too close to something to have good perspective, rely on your friends to help you.
40. Eat badly sometimes. It’s the last time in your life when you can do this without feeling guilty about it.
41. Make a complete ass of yourself at least once, preferably more. It builds character.
42. Wash your sheets more than once a year. Trust me on this one.
43. If you are in a relationship and none of your friends want to hang out with you and your significant other, pay attention. They usually know better than you do.
44. Don’t be afraid of the weird pizza topping combinations that your new friend from across the country loves. Some of the truly awful ones actually taste pretty good. Expand your horizons.
45. Explore the campus thoroughly. Don’t get caught.
46. Life is too short to stick with a course of study that you’re no longer excited about. Switch, even if it complicates things.
47. Tattoos are permanent. Be very certain.
48. Don’t make fun of prefrosh. That was you like 2 hours ago.
49. Enjoy every second of the next four years. It is impossible to describe how quickly they pass.

This is the only time in your lives when your only real responsibility is to learn. Try to remember how lucky you are every day.

Be yourself. Create. Inspire, and be inspired. Grow. Laugh. Learn. Love.
Welcome to some of the best years of your lives.

aww true -___-

blua:

I needed this.

beben-eleben:

10. The black holes
After having been considered a SCI-FI concept for many decades, scientists all believe today in the existence of black holes. These are, according to definition, regions in space from which not even light escapes. A black hole is supposed to absorb all the light that hits the horizon, reflecting nothing. Apparently, they form when heavy stars collapse in a supernova at the end of their life cycle. After being form, a black hole will continue to grow by absorbing matter from its surroundings. Also, scientists believe that black holes exist at the center of most galaxies. Moreover, our own Milky Way is believed to shelter a huge 4 million solar masses (the standard unit of mass in astronomy) black hole. Once one of the mysteries of the universe, black holes are now generally agreed upon and an universal recognition of the phenomenon occurred in the past years. However, for most of us ignorants,it remains nothing but a strange, interesting phenomenon.

9. The end of the Universe
If the universe will end, and how will this happen remains one of those questions that men ask for the sake of asking, even though they know it would be impossible to find an answer. However, man is stubborn: several theories were created, such as the one claiming that the universe will continue to expand up to a point where all matter will be as thin as dust. Another one brings forward the idea that the universe will simply slow down and fall back into a single point, that may spark again into a new Big Bang. Finally, some people believe that baryons and protons, the building blocks of matter will simply decay (as other particles do) and if this do happens, than the universe will simply cease to exist.

8. Time
Time is maybe the greatest of all the mysteries of the universe. This is because, even though we are familiar with it ever since the beginning of our race, we are still unable to define it properly and in a way that satisfies everybody and every field of science. The question of whether the time even exists and can be measured arose and wasn’t yet answered.

7. The Dark Matter and the Dark Energy
Apparently, there is an enormous amount a matter that humans are unable to perceive. This was determined with the help of modern technology and high-tech instruments which show that we can only perceive about 4 % of all the existent matter. The rest is the so called ‘dark’ matter, which remains unperceivable by the human eye because it neither emits nor scatters light, hence the name. According to some studies, the dark matter represents 83 % of the universe, while what we call normal matter is about 17 %. Despite these figures and despite its supposed importance, we were unable of finding evidence of its existence. Accompanying dark matter is the dark energy which has the capability of increasing the rate of expansion of the universe. The existence of this type of energy would explain the recent observations of the expansion of the Universe at an accelerated rate.

6. Multiverse‘Multiverse is a term coined in 1895 by the American philosopher William James and it represents a set of multiple universes, also known as parallel universes. This theory implies the existence of more than one universe in the same space and time, but without interacting, except some very special situations. However, no proof of the existence of such worlds were founs yet, so it all remains a matter of belief and of probability.

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ughwenz:

• You’re not scared of the dark. You’re scared of what’s in it.
• You’re not afraid of height. You’re afraid of falling.
• You’re not afraid of people around you. You’re just afraid of rejection.
• You’re not afraid to love. You’re just afraid of not being loved back.
• You’re not afraid to try again. You’re just afraid of getting hurt for the same reason.

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