1. 1/31/14 8:30am my dorm room

2. I can hear the muffled sounds of distant traffic. It is the more gentle sound of tires on pavement, rather than engines or horns.

3. My roommate’s white noise generating fan is on. It creates a constant softening and deadening of all other noises. I can also hear the shower running, just on the other side of the wall. The dripping water changing pitch occasionally.

4. The whir of my laptop’s fan is higher pitched and harsher than the white noise fan, almost as though the sound clashes with itself, but of similar volume and consistency. When I move my arm, I can hear the sound of my skin brushing against the sheets of my bed.

5. For Hofstra campus, it is quite quiet and calm. Yet there is definitely noise, it is the consistency and soft quality of those noises that allows it to seem quiet.

6. routine

7. white noise fan, shower, computer fan.