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 …
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Replying to @QiaochuYuan
Tbh one of the most liberating things about Harvard is that no one would think you are a talentless loser just because you put a lot of effort into stuff.
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Replying to @ANNVYSHINSKY @QiaochuYuan
I remember being really worried that I just work hard and am not actually very smart.
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Replying to @ANNVYSHINSKY
fascinating. would you mind if i poked at this a little? what would it mean to you if you just worked hard and actually weren't very smart?
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Replying to @QiaochuYuan
Hmmm, an internal limit of some sort, like no matter how hard I work I just don’t have the potential to do as well as others who might be smarter, which is of course utterly depressing.
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ah, and is it like if others who might be smarter will always be able to do better than you then that means you're not special, or something else? i definitely have something like that 
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