Hmmm... perhaps a warning?

Talking about this weeks events on MSN as I read an introduction to some poems, I came across this sentence in A New Anthology of Candian Literature in English (edited by Russle Brown and Donna Bennett):

"...but his pursuit of the less acedemic side of undergraduate life cost him a first-class degree, and an acedemic career."

Hmm. It seems almost as if Professor Brown is chastising me through his book. Professor Brown, you may have just saved me! To work!