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Medieval collection at the Cloisters in Manhattan...
~The Cloisters, 2009~
It's so lovely there. I'd like to go back and visit again.
~more from the Cloisters~
June 2009
So I'm reading The Cloisters by Katy Hays, and I knew it was dark academia going in but hooo boy I did not expect it to be this accurate. And I'm only like 1/5 of the way through.
The elitism; always feeling like you're not enough, trying to replicate the people you see as 'better' than you.
Feeling like you need to become a certain 'type' of person to belong
The amount of reverence given to your 'academic superiors'
The instability of academia- having opportunities taken away with no warning
The in-group out-group social structures where everybody has their own little niches and the nervousness of being outside those and the difficulty of getting in
The exploitation of passion and love of learning for the goals of professors and institutions
Like damn. The book is really good but it is stressing me out.