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 …
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
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I was at Sidney Sussex 1979-82, so a lot may have changed. It seemed to be considered just fine to do enough work for a solid 2nd, together with a lot of non-academic activities. And you'd hear "can't come out tonight, I've got an essay crisis" quite often.
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In some ways having some truly brilliant people around gives the fairly-bright people a bit more freedom to kick back and not be excessively competitive about positions in the middle of the pack.
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