dark academia | to study like an academic 

this is more important than you think. romanticizing studying and learning is the best thing u can do for yourself

This is exactly what dark academia is, this is its core. Clothes, makeup, and home decor are secondary. Thank you for putting it into words. I like to listen to this every day for motivation and as a reminder as to why I study. I study not for the grades but for the knowledge. Hoping for more content like this!

Say it with me: Motivation is overrated. It is not motivation that I lack, it is my lack of discipline that is the dagger to my personal innovation.

" and you have the audacity to procrastinate?" Absolutely wonderful, almost have tears in my eyes thinking how privileged I am that I get to study in a country like mine where higher studies is a dream. Thank you so much. I will never stop learning ✨❤️I won't.

What a beautiful visual/spoken essay. It reminds of an essay that is called something like defense of annotating books. You inspire passion and fervor of knowledge. The academia aesthetics are lucky to have your defense.

If you’re getting into academia just for the “aesthetics” you’re gonna have a real rude awakening when academia doesn’t want you

I've always been ashamed to love poetry, to be a poet, a passionate lover of all arts, people made me feel ashamed of it and it sticked like an anchor in the deep of my ocean head. When I hear you, I feel like I hear the heir of Keating from DPS and i feel comforted. Thank you so much for this

Gorgeous, simply gorgeous. And quite effective as well. I want to pick up a book and read it cover to cover now, and not stop. You make me fall in love with academia

script: (1) this is not a guide on how to get good grades. this is a guide on how to always attend your classes with a thrill in your heart, on how to never lose the motivation to go back to your desk and read some more, on how to overcome the mid-semester slump and to conquer gloomy finals days, on how to love what you're doing for the sake of being studious, for the art of enjoying revision, for the beauty of knowledge itself. this is a guide on how to study like an academic. (2) RM. Ryan and EL Deci (1993) once said you cannot make the expectations of others your goal. if you wish to truly do something right, you must find the reasons for why youre doing it within yourself. replace external motivation with an intrinsic motivation. and L Küster and H Decke-Cornill (2010) once said that of all intrinsic reasons you might find, the one which will motivate you the best, and make the information you absorb last the longest, better than money and glory, is the love to the thing itself. in our case? the case of us academics? we must bring ourselves to not just care for the content of our studies but to genuinely be excited abt the act of studying itself. (3) (3.1) The Privilege of Learning - Part One: Knowledge look at the boring book before you, you know, the one you were told to read for class. look at all the knowledge it contains. how do you think did it get there? did someone just one day randomly decide they wanted to write down a few loose and unchecked thoughts on the matter and just send it out into the world? (admittedly, at times it feels like it) or is this book, this one paragraph, perhaps even just this single line, the product of hundreds of years of curious minds working hard to dig for truths in this coal mine universe of questions? working to discover, gather, test, philosophize, summarize, discuss, disagree, try again, write, rewrite, edit, edit, edit and then finally! publish it? to in the end lay all those thousand hours of hard work before your feet, ready for you to just ... read it? all this knowledge lying pressed between ur notes, or on ur teachers lips, and the years of passion of academics like u whose collaborate efforts have put it right there, allowing u, today, to have a look at it. this book, in your hands, it is the product and tool of a privilege of such unfathomable value, how could anyone look at it and think it unimportant? or think themself too important to not read each word with reverence? (3.2) The Privilege of Learning - Part Two: You now look at the boring book before you once more. look at it with the wondrous thing that is your mind. what do you think are the odds of you being you, just now, just here, hunched over this book with the brain capacity to understand its content? compare yourself to the billions of creatures on this planet who do not have your brain, aren't capable to retain such refined diamonds of knowledge. your mind (even if you might struggle with it sometimes) is an impressive and marvellous tool. every piece of information you have ever memorised, it becomes a part of you, and this means that just by interacting with it, you are part of it as well: you, by reading this book, by discovering its knowledge, by testing it, discussing it, disagreeing or rewriting it, you become a heir to the hundreds of people before you, perpetuating the process and allowing more curious academics to celebrate their minds. stop doing things despite yourself, and begin doing them because of yourself: if you work out, don't do it despite of your body, because you don't like the way it looks, do it because of your body, because of how strong and capable it is. it is the same with learning. don't study despite your tired or unfocused brain, wanting to watch a tv show instead, do it because of it, because your mind is capable of so many things, and you should never cease to let it grow. you are here, right now, alive, with a book before you, and this book might not only answer questions but also open so many more - and you have the audacity to procrastinate? (4) it is okay to want good grades. it is okay to study to land a good job in the end. it is okay to be tired. to feel overwhelmed. to feel trapped. (it is not our fault that our society demands so much) all i'm asking is, please: Never cease to be amazed. Never cease to be amazed at what the world has to offer. Never cease to be amazed at what your mind has to offer. You are the heir, the bearer and the teacher of glorious truths. So i say to you, remember that studying-true learning, learning for the sake of celebrating and participating in the marvels of this world-is passion. and passion is what makes a good academic. (by jey withane, august 2020)

I need this kind of mindset, so i will romanticize studying and academic stuff because i need motivation.

I want your voice to narrate my life, it's so soothing and soft I just love it

I watch this every morning to motivate myself. Thank you

simply having a love for the dark, while also having a love for learning

This was So Great. I loved it, and I want to thank you deeply for making it. Humans really are marvelous, and there is so much to learn. Thanks for reminding me how much knowledge makes my soul vibrate.

i’m literally on the verge of tears right now this has just touched me in a way i cannot describe.. thank you for reminding us how precious and beautiful learning can be...

I love your voice! It’s just so gorgeous!🥺 (kinda jealous...😂) and you motivated me to make my math homework. I HATE MATH (at least in school)

It’s amazing video! Finally someone was saying not about the fashion, the outer side of dark academia, but about the deeper part of it, about passion for learning and knowledge

Please, don't ever stop making content like this. The academic in me is staggering from pressure and stress and this little gem of a video rekindled something in me.

Loved it! This video generated a renewed love for academia within me!

this video seriously needs more recognition. its either something really ethereal in her voice apart from the concept which is beyond explanation. i am so glad i found this video and genuinely pity the ones who don't even know what da ACTUALLY is

You have no idea how happy I am to see someone speaking about academia as something which requires passion and curiosity to be genuine. I have become disillusioned with the world of academia in the past year after struggling with my mental health and being punished by the system for it. I lost my sense of self as it was defined by my measurable academic successes and failures. It is the sentiment in this video that is bringing me home to myself, a perspective that my dearest professors have brought out in me.

Thanks so much for this! I wish there was more videos like this. You are the only one who posted a motivation which sounds like an actual motivation than the how-to-get-good-grades ones because learning is what makes you a student, not the grades. Thanks so much!

As a person who is an extreme academic, I absolutely adore this video. I always feel the need to learn new things, and that it has this allure to me, and from this video, I have now found other people like that.

I always come back to your videos to help me in times of being tired or depressed and growing stagnant or wishing to. They motivate me like nothing else and I’ve shared them with my few friends, they loved them! I’m telling you, and please understand when I say this, that I’m not being dramatic, they move me to tears. Even though I’ve watched them many times. It makes me feel overwhelmed with joy every time. I can feel such life in it!!! I can feel the love, the passion and depth of all the words you share with us being like these books and things in which you explain so well. I hear the echos of all the time spent within them. Those moments shared by us in this life. The good the bad the difficult and easy, together and alone, all that we think and feel in these caverns of our heads. It’s lovely to be amongst the people who get this feeling so well 🖤🖤🖤 Thank you so much for sharing your art and thus a bit of your soul with us, truly beautiful!

This, this right here is one of the most beautiful video on academia in RU-vid !!!! I am mesmerized💖✨, keep up the good work!

this is amazing i'm really struggling to find motivation to study atm because i don't have any career goals this is really inspiring to me and i found a new reason to actually put work in learning and studying thank you so much!:)

This video is absolutely amazing! I find myself in this ‘midterm slump’ and I really needed to remind myself of why I enjoy the academics so much, this video did just that! Thank you

I have embedded this onto my Notion homepage, because these are the types of affirmations I need to listen to everyday...Thank you so much for this creating this!🖤✨

this is one of the most greatest works I've ever seen; I'm in love with it;

i love how this video emphasizes on the true meaning of academia it reminded me my love for learning: thank you :)

istg I got chills watching this, this is so so SO important

I ve been waiting for you to post another video since i don t know when! I love love your content and you do such a great job inspirig us! ♥️♥️♥️✨

I want to thank you for this ! You lighted the candles , you cleared my mind ✨ thank you

I'm trying my best to try and learn stuff and or get interested in studying (especially math). Dark academia helps me with that.

This is exactly wat i needed to fall in love again with my textbook... Thank you

This video is sooo very important, please make more videos like this.You have no idea how much this video has helped me ,I've watched it countless number of times and I'd love to see more .Thankyou :)))

Wow. I'm in love! I literally teared up a little while watching this

Thankyou so much ,I always come back to this when I loose motivation .

You're back! Yay!

i love everything about this! thank you so much

amazing, coud not have found a better description, thanks for the motivation

I love this so much seriously thank you thank you thank you

Perfect timing... i don't have words to explain how much this five minute video changed me instantly... i was going to give up..before seeingthis.... now i will push myself to the edge and test the limits of this amazing mind nature has gifted me... whoever made this deserves a big thank you...

Thank you for bring me back to myself once again.

Loved this!! Beautiful work! please keep making more videos, this was really great..

Thankyou so much. This brought tears to my eyes its wonderful.

this spoke to me in ways i cant put up in words..Thank you.

Clicked as fast as possible!! I always love your videos :)

Thankyou so much for being so inspirational

Thank you, just thank you

esto es lo mejor que e visto en mi vida entera.

I live this so much

This is so beautiful

This is so lovely

I cannot describe how I feel about this video. I can just say, Thank you!

Simply Marvelous. thanks for the reminder that academics is not just marks and scores. it is but scores of the written word which lies on a desk or a shelf to be opened and read by us.

The video that changed my life to the best. I'll recommend this to everyone. Even if you don't attend classes.

This video changed my life

i tought it was a playlist lmao but this was so helpful thank u sm for making it

can someone recommended more RU-vid creators like this please

I cried through the whole Video. Thank you for showing me the way.

And this video, is what's going to get me through and towards me working with history one day.

this is beautiful

loved ittttt!!

such wonderful reasons to study

this is amazing

Thanks for the video.

Every three months I watch this video to revive the academic in me when I'm at the brink of collapsing

english is not my first language, nor is it my favourite language... but the way you speak and what you say enchants me

Hi, I was wondering when you could make more videos like these..? They're splendid, and I find your form of story telling quite addictive and substantial. I hope you're in the best of health, and maybe sooner than later, you'll make another one. Till then, I'll wait, hopeful, because these are pieces of great art and understanding, and I consider myself lucky to have found your channel. Thank you for these, even if you do not decide to make any more of them. Love, P.

This is the most wonderful video I've ever watched. I medical science because it is what fascinated me. But after going through the dull system of college I seemed to have lost that passion Even after graduating as a Doctor I felt like I lost something, the fire, the passion. I've slowly been getting it back during this pandemic and this video was all I needed to remind me about why I do what I do For this I sincerely thank you

thank you

U just express more why I should study not for my grades... I would like to say thank u for that WISDOM in yours.

I come back to this video before all my exams

so talent , your voice so lovely

I've been thinking about this lately that how people are making learning in the forms it's available to us now, appear evil and was wondering what could I contribute to romanticize learning. I read your script in the comment cause as it happens, once you feel the joy of reading, it's second to none and reading with my own voice in my head makes your words talk to me. Today I thought I must not the only one to think it and came here and found you. Dropped this comment to let you know how I appreciate your work. Kudos.

The Queen has returned!

two words: thank you.

Lovely, lovely, lovely...

holy shit i love this ??

Omg I love your channel I'm glad you post another video I thought you wouldn't do more after the two other ones, so I stopped checking out your channel, but now I will check it out every day! I don't know if you will respond to This, but if you do, could you tell me if you're planning to do more videos? And when would you upload them? I'm kinda excited~

Woah was that history boys at the beginning- I’ve never met anyone who knew it existed before

I, in the midst of browsing aimlessly through the internet, have by chance found gold. Or perhaps, it was destiny.

Please come back and present what you are made for please come back and save us!!!!

I actually never thought about the privilege of learning, alot of people don't khow even how to read becuz of poverty or war, the social media teached me alot of stuff, so I'm really thankful for this privilege Thank u !

wll put together. thank you!

*WOOOW...*

thanks, I feel better now :')

I always come back here when I loose motivation

Ten seconds in and I was like is this a gem that RU-vid hid from me all this time?

beautiful video :')

i absolutely love your channel your videos totally incapsulate the dark academia “aesthetic” and show it for what it really is, if you don’t mind me asking..are you irish? i’m wondering because i am and your accent seems familiar :)

lemme cry brb 😔

Wow...I love leaning.

I'm depressed and I'm desperately trying to get my "spark" (it feels dumb to call it that but an ee ways) and will to learn back🥲

Hey jey, your edits are so pretty:3 which app do you use?

you deserve a million likes...since i cant give you million likes myself, i will give you the best i can . here is a like from me

if anyone knows accounts similar to this one please please let me know, i would love to watch art like this

There's knowledge that i want to get, but it's not what is taught at my school, I'm completely and utterly bored and uninterested with what they teach, unless it's a certain topic in science, but I feel drawn to this "aesthetic" but I don't feel like I'd live up to it with the type of knowledge that I want to learn, so can someone tell me whether this is right or not? I mean, I still do want basic education, but I want a more advanced one in the areas that I love, so would I still be able to be apart of the Dark Academia community?

Idk why I'm watching this I don't go to school lol. But it is quite interesting.