Alexis
What i am actually avoiding is working with the average overindulged student. Im not even sure i want to teach after i finish my second grad program. 
The places where the nonaverage go to school are places where tenureis offered on a limited basis.  My major problem with tenure for myself is that i dont want to be sitting on elitist commitees talking about nothing all day, its a waste of time. While i dont want any part of something i am excluded from originally there may be others like me who are being excluded for no reason and they should have a choice.  Anyone who would choose to mentor in an elitist program wouldnt be anyone i would work with anyway, they knew it was elitist, it said it right there after the word only.  I was  trying to get others included because they may want to be and because it is wrong.  
I also notice this was posted a few days before i saw it so anyone who had already read it was cool with exclusion on an arbitrary elitist basis since noone had said anything about it.  
The more i see of academia the less i want anything to do with it.
Best 
Nicole   
 
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