Something I noticed is that in Britain it's cool to pretend you never do any work. Students there obviously do work because they learn the same stuff as anybody else, but they like to pretend they do nothing. Whereas here, people in Princeton would come to me and tell me they had spent the last twenty-four hours in the library. Here, they seem to pretend they work harder than they do. This department is an extremely friendly department.
People just seem to talk to each other more than they do in many places.
Undergraduates in England usually study one subject. This makes teaching there a different experience from teaching people who are studying mathematics as part of a broader education. I have the impression that most teaching here is done in middle sized classes. The continuous assessment is also different. In England, the only assessment is at the end of the year.