#poc chaotic academia

[theinsomniacindian]

Indian Chaotic Academia

Wanting to wear jumpers and hoodies but changing your mind after looking at the daily temperature

Scoring 97% in English in your board exams but your spoken English makes you sound like you've never studied it in your life

Messy yet (somewhat) intelligible handwriting

A weak spot for old Bollywood songs regardless of your personal taste in music

Chipped nail polish and lots of bracelets

Wanting to study in a park or a cafe but you can't as they're too loud and busy

Adrak chaha is the solution to everything

Muting the class WhatsApp group so you can read angsty fanfiction at 3 a.m. without alerting your parents

Vada pav and samosa>>>>

Buying several highlighters but still end up using blunt pencils to mark important study material

At some point, a B is the best grade you'll ever find in your report card

Reading the Mahabharata at the back of the class in the same way you would read a modern novel ("Nooo, why did he have to die 😭")

Coming up with ideas for study charts but never actually making them

Getting a lot of holidays and vacations thanks to the amount of festivals celebrated throughout the year

"Sir that's my emotional support gel pen brand that I've been using since fifth grade"

The poem you have to learn in your regional language class is actually your favourite childhood song

Rickshaw rides are better than any other mode of transport, change my mind (you can't)

Getting the 'Slytherin house' that always comes last in every school event

Only buying books from the second-hand book stalls because they have all the good ones

[sysy-studyblr]

monday 06/05/24

looked into housing, worked on my cv + applications!

♫ spite - omar apollo ♫

[angiospleen]

[belle-keys]

The Ultimate Dark Academia Book Recommendation Guide Ever

The title of this post is clickbait. I, unfortunately, have not read every book ever. Not all of these books are particularly “dark” either. However, these are my recommendations for your dark academia fix. The quality of each of these books varies. I have limited this list to books that are directly linked to the world of academia and/or which have a vaguely academic setting.

Dark Academia staples:

The Secret History by Donna Tartt

If We Were Villains by M.L. Rio

Dead Poets Society by Nancy H. Kleinbaum

Vita Nostra by Maryna Dyachenko

Dark academia litfic or contemporary:

Bunny by Mona Awad

The Idiot by Elif Batuman

These Violent Delights by Micah Nemerever

White Ivy by Susie Yang

The Cloisters by Katy Hays

Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro

The Lake of Dead Languages by Carol Goodman

A Separate Peace by John Knowles

Black Chalk by Christopher J. Yates

Attribution by Linda Moore

Dark academia thrillers or horror:

In My Dreams I Hold a Knife by Ashley Winstead

The Maidens by Alex Michaelides

Ghosts of Harvard by Francesca Serritella

Catherine House by Elisabeth Thomas

Plain Bad Heroines by Emily M. Danforth

They Never Learn by Layne Fargo

The It Girl by Ruth Ware

Never Saw Me Coming by Vera Kurian

Dark academia fantasy/sci-fi:

Babel: An Arcane History by R.F. Kuang

The Atlas Six by Olivie Blake

Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo

A Lesson in Vengeance by Victoria Lee

The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern

Vicious by V.E. Schwab

A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness

The Betrayals by Bridget Collins

Dark academia romance:

Gothikana by RuNyx

Alone With You in the Ether by Olivie Blake

Dark academia YA or MG:

Truly Devious by Maureen Johnson

A Deadly Education by Naomi Novik

Ace of Spades by Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé

The Raven Boys by Maggie Stiefvater

Legendborn by Tracy Deonn

Crave by Tracy Wolff

Wilder Girls by Rory Power

The Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling

Dark academia miscellaneous:

My Dark Vanessa by Kate Elizabeth Russell

Disorientation by Elaine Hsieh Chou

Alphabet of Thorn by Patricia A. McKillip

[theacademiccottage]

“I do not suffer from insanity, I enjoy every minute of it”

- Edgar Allan Poe

[academiabutworse]

Chaotic Academia moodboard

[kaleb-is-definitely-sane]

[archerofunspeakablelove]

Ancient China actually has so much dark academia potential like what do you mean students just lived together at their mentor's house. *taps mic* hello. Exclusively private education and students lived together at the teacher's house

[mooncrvmbs]

while i do appreciate the politics in academia that love theoretically throws light on as a poc woman in stem i do believe that the tropes are getting a little too repetitive for my liking. i liked the love hypothesis and love on the brain. i even have the paperbacks for both of them. but love theoretically just didn't hit the spot for me. i am getting tired of the repetitive enemies to lovers misunderstanding and miscommunication trope that hazelwood includes in all her books. i feel like there is so much that can be done with a female lead in stem that highlights how xenophobic, sexist and misogynistic academia can be without reusing the same trope over and over again.

i am not saying the book was bad, i just feel like her plots are stagnant and getting repetitive. there's nothing new to expect and honestly that breaks my heart a little bit. because i love the women in stem representation. we have been ostracized by the society in every way possible and i was really happy to find an author who would finally write from our perspective. but it's just not doing it for me anymore :/

[sahelstudies]

02/100 days of productivity ▪︎ 280623

woke up a little earlier to study and finish my assignments. it didn't work out but I enjoyed the winter sun at the college desk. sometimes changing environments can be good.

I have an entry due on Sunday and three more papers due next week. What keeps me motivated to continue is the event that will take place next Friday at the school where I teach.

to-do:

entry (already working on that)

textbook analysis for brazilian history

educational psychology summary

[theinsomniacindian]

In theory, I'm dark academia. In practice, I'm chaotic academia

[sysy-studyblr]

friday 26/04/24

started researching on the basics in planning when moving countries as a uni student!! its very hefty but i think a good organization system makes it easier

♫ redbone - childish gambino ♫

[angiospleen]

Slide 4: My new mugs + bookcase

[zaagi-studies]

introduced myself with my english & ojibway names and my (indigenous) prof only used the ojibway one 🙏

[theacademiccottage]

[studying-with-k]

28/8/23

It's been a loooong ass time since I got a post out and it's been a lot of reasons mainly because travelling for a summer school knocked the fucking energy outta me and I got hit with a 2 piece combo of jet lag and burnout right when I get back home 😭.

Travelling solo international for the first time was really really fun and I loved it! It was scary at first cause you had to do everything alone and my anxiety went brr until I had to do it lol.

I met some of the nicest and most amazing people on the trip and once I apply for my master's program I wanna visit them once before we all get swamped with work and life once again.

I'm swamped with soo many things rn and I think rebuilding a routine might be the best first step in all this!