Cultivate plenty of relaxing minor interests, Enjoy as many diversifying hobbies and pursuits as you can; make sure these provide variety from your day job.

I had graduated from Harvard a few years before he left MIT, and we Shared a few mutual friends as well as a few minor interests: sports, late nights at college pubs, widescreen TVs.

I'm a computer science major with an art minor, and I'm really excited about combining these two interests.