The purpose of this assignment was to take photos through a 24 hour period to express how we might perceive time on a personal level.

I feel as if my days in the city so far have been pretty mundane.  My daily routine has maintained pretty consistent since I have arrived to New York. I wake up, run around searching for any orientation events, go out to dinner, and sleep. I thought that maybe after that week was over I’d become busier and find more fulfilling opportunities to keep me occupied. Yet again, I wake up, go to class, go out to dinner, attempt doing my homework, and go to sleep again. Nothing in my daily tasks has changed much.

I think when you go off on your own and spend most of your time by yourself, the days tend to grow longer and the hours pass by much slower because you don’t have other people to cherish the moments with you. It’s hard to find any time to spend actually getting to know other people because I have kept myself busy with dealing with so many things. Everyone has their own set of tasks to complete and is rushing around just as much as I am that I never really have the time to really sit down and talk to someone.

In the suburban town I am from, I spend a majority of my day at school and on breaks hanging out with friends and really getting to know people. When I am not outside I always come home to round table family dinners.  Both of these experiences have their good and bad moments. Just the way time passes by in something so simple as two locations can be different.

Recently I have communicated with old high school friends through a platform called Snapchat. I decided to display the photos I send on this app because it’s something I have already been using to document my day.