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i went to MIT and studied abroad at cambridge for a year and the biggest cultural difference was that at MIT people competed to signal that they were working as hard as possible - "i stayed up until 3am" etc. - and at cambridge people competed to signal that they did not workhttps://twitter.com/webdevMason/status/1186084266553143297 …
the ideal at cambridge was to look like you spent 0% of your time studying and 100% of your time drinking but still make it through school somehow. i really did not expect this. felt like a natural aristocracy thing, like signaling being a better kind of human
collecting RT-with-comments. i don't really know what this means but probably relevant:https://twitter.com/hpmacd/status/1187021683699474432 …
Guilty as charged, though sports (especially rowing, no matter how incompetently) and drama were also considered acceptable alternatives to excessive drinking, and cheaper on a student budget.
heh. i was briefly on the christ's college frisbee team and they told stories about drinking so much the night before a game that they needed to occasionally go into the bushes to puke + also still win
This was decidedly not my experience of Oxbridge. Was I hanging out with the peasants, then?
i imagine there's a lot of variation, i only experienced a small slice of christ's college for a year
MIT alum here. I found the one-upmanship kinda annoying but I think people were mainly just proud of themselves. I’d rather people brag about (and therefore admit to) how hard it was rather than pretend they’re just that gifted. Kinda relates to a fixed vs growth mindset.
i liked the way it sometimes felt like everyone was fighting a war together and bonding through hardship. IHTFP and so forth
I was a physics major at a state school, and the ideal was somehow very anti-elite: vulgar, disrespectful, crass, male-bonding oriented, successful without being a tryhard, brilliant in a way that's casual and not essential to your identity
For those that follow British politics, it shows in Johnson calling Cameron a "girly swot"
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