Dark Academia Aesthetic for Tired Graduate Teaching Assistants
-The same thrifted cashmere turtleneck tucked into the same pair of pleated wool trousers, repeated every week ad infinitum
-Your fourth cup of tea from the faculty lounge (coffee bothers your stomach.)
-office hours with passionate students to whom you can lend your favorite books (knowing full well you will never have those books returned.)
-The leather messenger bag you’ve used since undergrad, well-seasoned.
-Procrastinating your actual research with research on other esoteric topics you love, such as medieval mystics, astronomy, or the art of violin making.
-scribbling lines of poetry into your notebook during department meetings.
-staying late at the local bar with your peers to discuss pedagogy.
-”You didn’t fulfill the assignment requirements, but this essay was insightful, thought-provoking, & well-researched. I enjoyed it immensely. A+.”
-Fellow grad students passing around a photocopy of photocopy of an obscure work of literature so no one has to buy it. Reading annotations from previous copy owners scribbled in the margins. Adding your own comments in conversation.
-Selling your used books to the local independent bookstore for credit to buy more used books.
-Stopping by your advisor’s office to ask a quick question, staying for an hour to talk philosophy.
-Old wool coat, old wool scarf, old wool hat. Old leather shoes.
-warm photocopies in your hands on a cool autumn day as you walk to class.
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