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Students at some colleges act collected and nonchalant about their workloads while working like mad behind the scenes to get everything done (the so-called “duck syndrome”). At other colleges, it’s considered normal to complain vocally about the amount of work one needs to do, either as one-upmanship or simply group commiseration. I’m not sure student reports about workload as necessarily always accurate, though they’re often taken at face value. Is a college with lots of student complaints about workload or grades actually incredibly rigorous – or is that simply the campus culture? It can be difficult to tell.
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<p>What schools are you referring to? If you are referring to MIT and Stanford, MIT students are more stressed because they have more work, even in the same major.</p>