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Looking for Mascara in Sephora
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Location: Sephora in Roosevelt Field, 2/13/18 around 4 pm

Description: Sephora was pretty busy today, and a lot of talking can be heard, such as a saleswoman describing a mattifying foundation. Additionally, there’s pop music playing in the background. The talking and the music dominate the clip.

Journal Entry #3 – Walking to Class
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  1. Date: February 13, 2018
    Time: 12:20 pm – ish
    Location: Student Center
  2. Farthest: people talking, eating food, laughing, laptops wirring, people typing, beeping from the machines to order food, collecting their things
  3. Medium: People drinking starbucks, impatient  sighs, someone zipping up their bag and coat
  4. Closest: The zipper on my combatboots clinking, the music coming from my headphones, the ice in my drink clinking and shifting, the metal on my purse clinking
  5. General sound level: high
    General sound activity: high
  6. One word description: Bustling
  7. 3 important sounds: people talking, impatient sighs, music in my headphones

Honors College Lounge
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  1. Honors College Lounge- 2/12/18- 11:15 am
  2. Farthest: Printer running, secretary talking to a student, woman on the phone in an office
  3. Medium: Student typing on a keyboard, someone walking past and shuffling their feet
  4. Closest: Coffee machine boiling water
  5. Level: Typically quiet but has bursts of noise every few moments
  6. Description: Studious
  7. Important sounds: Typing, people on the phone, coffee machine boiling water, printer running

Journal Entry #2 – Normal Night
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  1. Date: 2/8/18, Time: 8:03 pm, Location: My house
  2. Sounds farthest away: People talking on TV, music from TV
  3. Sounds at medium range: Stepfather commenting/reacting to Olympics on TV
  4. Sounds closest: Mother preparing something in the microwave, opening of the fridge door, beeping of the toaster
  5. General sound level: A lot of sound activity, but fairly quiet between my mother and I. Meanwhile, my stepfather is a bit loud as he was speaking from another room
  6. “Casual”
  7. Opening of the fridge door, people talking on TV and reacting to events on the television

Journal Entry
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1- February 8th – 11:00 pm – Room 315 in The Hague House in the Netherland

2- Farthest – Cars driving down the street, people talking in the house common room

3- Medium – My roommates talking in the other room, the toilet flushing in the bathroom

4- Closest- my breathing, the running of my fish tank’s motor, the bubbling or the fish tank’s filter, my clock ticking

5- It is very quiet in this room and there is very little sound activity.

6- Tired

7- Clock ticking, fish filter bubbling, cars driving by

 

Journal Entry 2
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1- 2/8/18 , Hofstra Fitness center 9:00pm
2- The people above me running on their treadmills, the stray basketball that bounces down the hall,the faint sound of the weights being dropped in the other room
3- girls coming out of the locker room, the basketball game on the other side of the curtain,the volleyball scorekeeping talking on his phone, The Olympics playing in the lobby, loudly
4- My teammates warming up, chatting and the squeaks of their sneakers , the team captain yelling about missing players
5- high noise level
6- hectic
7- The hum of the treadmills, the the basketball game, and the squeaks of the sneakers