The phrase "academic things" is correct and can be used in written English.
It refers to any subject matter, materials, or tasks related to academic study or education. It is typically used to contrast with non-academic or non-educational topics. Example: "Let's focus on our academic things first, and then we can have some fun afterwards."
Academic things: I'm a 1st year grad student majoring in computer science.
He said Harvard had seminars in the houses, and he thought the residential colleges would benefit from having classroom academic things besides tutoring.
"Jonathan Cole is more responsible for many of the academic things that have happened here than almost anyone else," said Eric Foner, a Columbia history professor, "for upgrading the library and other facilities, for the academic departments, for the faculty.
"When I was in year 9, we had an exchange programme and saw they have very different roles doing artsy stuff – in Korean school, we focus on academic things," she says.
I've never really enjoyed academic things, I've always felt that's what I have to do - but that's a different thing entirely…" "I read a lot of books in my first year at uni outside the course so as well as my course reading I read a lot of YA books.
He was able to do all the academic things, but then to make things that clearly had no relationship to anybody else on the course or to anybody who was making anything at that time - for somebody of that age it was really unique.
It was shown in New York last year, a perfectly staid academic thing.
"I'd got fed up with the whole academic thing," she says.
For me, it was opting out, because I got a bit overwhelmed by the academic thing.
'In Germany there's this academic thing - like you have to have read 20,000 books.
"People loved it as an academic thing, but it had some very strong predictions about interest rates inside target zones.
