Posts Tagged ‘Professor’
1- March 8th, 1:25, Room 100 in Heger Hall
2- Farthest- Cars driving by on the road, a motorcycle going by, people talking loudly outside the window
3- Medium- The professor talking, students responding to her, clicking of the keys on a computer, papers shuffling, the clicking of a pen
4- Closest- My breathing, my writing, my toe tapping on the floor, someone whispering to someone else behind me
5- Sound level- low Sound activity-mostly people talking
6- Attentive
7- talking, papers shuffling, cars going by
- Location: Dempster Hall
- Sounds: Cindy Rosenthal lecture, papers turning, students, chairs, distant classical music from next door
1- Thursday, April 24, 2014, 3:15pm, Breslin Hall
2- Identify and list the sounds farthest away from you.
Furthest away from me, you can hear my professor lecturing about the legal studies in business and asking the class questions pertaining to the lesson we’re learning.
3- Identify and list the sounds at a medium range from you.
At medium range from me, you can hear my neighbor flip through her notes as she looks for the answer to the question my teacher has just posed.
4- Identify and list the sounds closest to you (You can include internal sounds if noticed or relevant).
Closest to me, you can hear the sounds of my clicking away on my keyboard as I’m pretending to take notes in class.
5- Describe the general sound level and amount of sound activity.
The sound level in the classroom is rather quiet as everyone’s paying attention and trying to grasp exactly what the teacher is trying to explain.
6- Assign a one word description to the “sound environment”.
Bored
7- Select and list 3 sounds which are essential to the sound environment. Note: you need to try and figure out what sounds make up this environment and which of those sounds need to be there for the feeling of the environment to stay intact.
Three sounds that are essential to this sound environment are the sounds of my professors voice in the background as she’s teaching class, the sound of my neighbor flipping through her notes and the sound of me messing around on my computer.
1 – 4/8/14 – 12:49pm – Gallon Wing, room 242
2 – Identify and list the sounds farthest away from you.
-A siren as it approaches the classroom’s general area, and then whooshes away as the vehicle drives by.
-A pen as hit hits the floor outside of the classroom.
-The sudden closing of a door down the hall.
3 – Identify and list the sounds at a medium range from you.
-Students typing on their MacBooks.
-The beeping of the projector.
-My professor talking to tech support over the classroom’s phone.
4 – Identify and list the sounds closest to you.
-The air conditioners running.
-Students talking to one another.
-The zipping and unzipping of a few backpacks in the classroom.
5 – Describe the general sound level and amount of sound activity.
-This was one of the loudest days in my 12:45 Tuesday/Thursday class. Since the classroom feels like the inside of a volcano on most days, either one of my friends or myself put the air conditioners on close to full blast. On top of this, practically everybody was talking at the same time while my professor was talking to tech support to get help with the beeping projector. These sounds, along with some of the other ones, were bouncing off the walls so it seemed even louder to me.
6 – Assign a one word description to the “sound environment”.
-Rambunctious.
7 – Select and list 3 sounds which are essential to the sound environment.
-My professor talking.
-The projector’s beeping sound.
-The sounds the air conditioners make.
Thursday, March 8, 11AM Religions of India class lecture by Dr. Balbinder Bhogal on Buddhism.
Dr. Bhogal is from India, but studied in England – and since then has lived in Virginia and Canada and now in New York.
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