The MIT Guide to Avoiding Burnout

In a similar vein, there's a Facebook group "Oxford University: Where Your Best Isn't Good Enough, Since 1117".

Campus wisdom states: At MIT, you can have enough sleep, good grades, or a social life. Pick two.<p>The monthly three-day weekends are nice though.

Hypothesis: if you find that you have a balanced life you'll eventually get burned out on that too and shift the balance.

The real secret sauce: sleep, variety.

Who all on HN is at MIT right now?<p>Despite MIT's reputation for entrepreneurship, it's been difficult to find collaborators actually willing to take the start-up plunge--perhaps especially in grad school.

We need to blackhole every single one of the 55 users who upvoted this submissions. This is precisely the kind of stuff that will turn HN into digg. What's next - lolcats? Seriously?