"undergraduate" appears here as a disparaging adverb? Academia showed me that freshmen arrive green and wide eyed, but also filled with integrity and wondrous

"undergraduate" appears here as a disparaging adverb? Academia showed me that freshmen arrive green and wide eyed, but also filled with integrity and wondrous belief in science. Only after graduation, masters, doctorate and postdoc are they fully ground down into cynical, jaded, institutionalised husks. Before they have learned to play "institutional games" undergrads are the kids who see when the Emperor has no clothes.