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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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
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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.
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i liked the way it sometimes felt like everyone was fighting a war together and bonding through hardship. IHTFP and so forth
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