Evolution and survival

Life in a big city differs a lot from the one in a small town. Although the biggest city I've ever really lived in is Riga with its 1 million, I've also lived in Kristianstad with its 35 000, so I can see the difference.
If you want to survive in a big city, you need to be flexible, sporty and evolution-oriented.

For instance today I was using 4 languages during the day. Latvian in the university and at home with my roommates, Russian with my friends and parents, English with my friends and articles I was writing, German while watching the movie in the cinema (with English subtitles, luckily). I will not even mention what kind of mix it causes inside my head. As I mentioned, you need to be flexible.
When you live in a big city, you are also always in a rush. Going somewhere takes a lot of time, traffic jams and public transport are the obstacles difficult to overcome. That's why my favourite sport is running after the bus. It's when you see the bus waiting at the traffic lishts and you have something like 1 second to count the possibility of you getting into that bus 2 blocks away. No rules, no judjes, just you and the bus. Today I had the traffic lights and an underground road crossing on my way, but luckily I made it, since otherwise waiting for a bus late in the centre of Riga is not the most pleasant time.

You need to be evolution-oriented to be able to change yourself by constantly improving your skills and qualities. Luckily being a student helps a lot in that.

They say people with higher education are more likely to survive not because of the knowledge they got in the university (you're not the only one who doesn't remember anything one hour after the exam), but because of what they went through. People who experienced living in the student dorms for instance can sleep in any conditions - in a light noisy room with sitting on the chair. They can do maximum in a really limited time (course work written in 1 night? no problem) and they have perfect communication skills (all these professors with all the rules and different politics make you think of a different behaviour on different lectudes, don't they?).

As a conclusion, I would say that the people with the higher education living in the world's biggest cities are much more likely to survive. That's the new evolution.