Have you laid a Penny on Sideways’ grave? How do you feel about bathing in piglets blood? Have you ever sung along to a Brian Eno song? On this episode of Exploring Dark Academia In The Modern World… “Superstitions: The Silly, The Sideways and The Strange” We explore our very own observations on the presence of superstitions amongst our fellow college students. In order to break down those observations, we dissected a plethora of examples rooted in our very own college campus, the Georgia Institute of Technology, and in the realm of dark academia literature (You know the book we are gonna use, our absolute favorite one… The Secret History by Donna Tartt). After drawing various connections between these examples, we began workshopping insights on why superstitions run so rampantly in colleges everywhere, always. Ready yourself to listen to our personal understanding of what a superstition even is, how it finds itself ingrained in our everyday behavior, and how that pertains particularly to listeners like you (college students); That is the tip of the iceberg as to what this silly, sideways, and very strange episode will reveal. Tune in for those tidbits of knowledge and of course to hear yours truly blabber on, procrastinating my much needed physics studying.