dark academia on a poor university student budget
Because tuition is expensive and my job doesn't pay much.
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Letter-writing. Decorate the margins with simple doodles that you know they'd appreciate. Find your own, distinctive sign-off. (You can also do this online by customising emails, Google Docs links, etc.)
Libraries. Campus libraries and their hum of student chatter. Once they begin to get too loud for your liking, visit a public library and study amongst the towering shelves.
Thrifting. Slowly phase old porcelain tableware into your kitchen. Walk to class in a gently-battered long coat. Thumb through copies of classics with worn corners and an old love note on the inside cover. Especially if you find an ornate teacup or mug that you can keep at your study space to be completely yours.
Make it yourself. Press flowers between heavy books and use them as decoration in your journal or sketchbook. Cut up some scrap paper and make bookmarks with your favourite book quotes.
Explore. Wander around public parks in your favourite pullover or blazer, taking photos or sketching whatever it is that catches your interest. Investigate back corridors and secret passages on your campus.
Read all those books in your TBR. (I know you have a lot on there.)
Journal, write, sketch, paint, compose... indulge in whatever creative respite you choose. Create.
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Romanticising
Actually romanticising my life or at least certain points of it, makes it much much better. Reading, but do it with candles, a good hot chocolate, a nice surrounding: Much better. Studying but do it with good music and surroundings? Hell yeah. Taking a walk but it's in autumn and you can see the many colours swirling around your boots? Yas.
Slay life.
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playlist for writing feverishly by candlelight, running to a cave at midnight to read poetry with your friends, wandering through an art gallery in a trench coat, and all your other dark academic needs
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hello there,
Welcome to the diary of an academic...
My name is Hiro and I'm a student of the natural sciences ❀
I'm making this blog as a journal for the upcoming academic year. I'm also here for study & writing motivation and aesthetic inspiration.
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I'll be floating around, mostly perusing...
⚘ Dark academia aesthetics
⚘ Study motivation
⚘ Writer musings & bookish things
⚘ Outfit inspiration
or, of course, blogging about my endless yearning through restless nights.
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