Job, Career, Vocation, Life

On Facebook, Oliver Crisp linked to a reflection by Charles Mathewes on the academic life, and I thought it worthy of posting here.

I have to confess that I find the academic world a little cliquey. If you are fortunate enough to have the funding to study at one of the top universities in the UK (and probably elsewhere), it seems that you are mentored, not merely supervised, and this mentoring leads to a greater chance at being fully accepted into the club rather than admitted.