@studentadvicee: as an international student at LSE here are my thoughts on why some students at top universities might appear harder working or somehow more intelligent than the average person. in my opinion these students are usually the product of very rigorous secondary school environments where working hard or simply being high achieving was the norm. some students are an exception but in my anecdotal experience most people here came from high performing schools and so have built up their discipline and work ethic over many years which explains why they got this far to begin with and why they are so successful during their time at university. some of us consider ourselves more “normal” but usually end up being pushed harder as a result of being surrounded by high achievers! so ya, if you don’t have an elite secondary school education, don’t compare yourself because you simply didn’t grow up in an environment that trained you to study 8 hours a day and all that jazz, whereas A LOT of students at elite universities come from that world. it’s not just international students coming from feeder schools, lots of UK students are too! #internationalstudent #LSE #UCL #KCL #ukuniversity

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