Two interesting posts (rants?) about current status of Computer Science in the academic world: Why I am Not a Professor and What's wrong with CS research. I have to agree with most points in the first one (while not with the second one).

I've also witnessed, at my University, the practice of scaling/normalizing exam results, the inflation of grades – and sometimes poor quality of the courses themselves. So... any reason to stay in the academia – except for the possibility to do the few courses I didn't manage to do earlier due to sharing my time between studying and working at Code Sprinters?