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I believe that allowing for serendipity is good advice.  The way I interpret this advice is to not spend all my time planning.  Schwartz is saying that good things will come when I sit back and relax.  I know I am guilty of trying to plan out every little detail of my life.  I want every second of every day to have something assigned to it.  Schwartz is saying that I need to let go of that and allow for things to occur that I might not have planned.

Serendipity is partly responsible for me ending up at Bryn Mawr.  I had my heart set on going to Scripps College in California.  My good friend just graduated from Bryn Mawr in '08 and she raved about it so much that I decided to apply to Bryn Mawr last minute.  When I got rejected from Scripps, I was devastated, but it was the best thing that could have happened.  Now, I am at Bryn Mawr and I love it and couldn't imagine being anywhere else.