Why are you such a buzzkill lol

ao3tagoftheday:

European universities originally developed as guilds of scholars, comparable to similar guilds of artisans or merchants. The guild hierarchy of apprentice, journeyman, and master still has its remnants in the modern university structure of undergraduate student, doctoral student, and professor. Titles such as Master of Arts are also relics of guild structure (compare to a title like Master of Weavers). The guild origins of the university can also be seen in the exclusivity of academia and the institution of tenure. Anyone who has studied the economic consequences of a guild economy will be able to recognize the similarities, but basically, guilds exist partly in order to control how many people can enter an industry and how quickly, thereby protecting the status of the masters running the guild. That’s…basically how academia works a lot of the time.