"Grudent" is a created word, exactly a smashup of "graduate student."
And you're right -- like the rest of their society, the university in the Crystal books is self-destructing; the professors have lost sight of the purpose and importance of their scholarship inside a system that's gone pear-shaped at best, or been turned completely upside down, at worst.
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Date: 2009-12-02 11:15 am (UTC)And you're right -- like the rest of their society, the university in the Crystal books is self-destructing; the professors have lost sight of the purpose and importance of their scholarship inside a system that's gone pear-shaped at best, or been turned completely upside down, at worst.