Livin' la Vida Monastica

"Long before savoury cheeses and aromatic chocolates, monasteries produced another fine product: academia.

...one cannot deny that the cloistered life of a graduate student is in keeping with the monastic tradition. After all, is the writing of grant applications nothing more than an exercise in begging for alms?"

My entire entry can be read here in the American Association for Applied Linguistics Graduate Students’ newsletter: https://www.aaal-gsc.org/_files/ugd/105c1b_eb8ff78cfaf144289d3093190841f26b.pdf?index=true#page=16