ENGRD101.24. Spring 2022. Emory University
The process of creating this cumulative ENGRD learning chart was fairly tedious. At first, I didn’t even know where to begin: what format or images I wanted to use. I tried drafting a few hand-drawn sketches but eventually decided to go the digital route and use pixlr. I used a blank comic format for obvious reasons, and over an hour, I assembled a few photos that I thought represented the learning goals for this class.
As a person who listens to many songs, I have various playlists for different situations. There are playlists that I listen to when I work out, study, and relax. For this playlist, the rhetorical situation I am engaging with is the emotions I have at night, and I’ll never get tired of. Usually, at night people tend to get emotional. During this time, I like to listen to this playlist, remain rational, and stay motivated. In order for the songs to be part of this playlist, they should contain catchy and meaningful lyrics.
The album cover is a picture of a view from my house, which has a beautiful skyline at night. Even though it’s not the best photo to represent “night,” I chose to use it as the cover of my playlist as it is one of my favorite photos and represents the colors of my songs being dark but also bright.
The full version of the playlist is about 2 hours, but I had to cut it down as half of it contained Korean songs.
When I first looked at the assignment, I thought of movies I liked, such as Joker, Batman, and Star Wars. However, as these movies required extra costumes with facial makeup, I decided to choose a different one. As a result, I chose the scene from ‘The Great Gatsby’ where Leonardo DiCaprio holds his drink and smiles at the party. Even though this wasn’t my favorite movie, I chose this scene because as I was looking in my closet for clothes to wear, I saw the suit that I had only worn once this year. This made me decide to wear the suit for this project and eventually choose this scene from The Great Gatsby. I found this assignment to be very fun as I got the opportunity to wear the suit that I brought all the way from Korea.
The question that I had for myself was about how productive I am. To answer my question, I looked at the categories of hours sitting in front of the desk, actual working hours, sleep, exercise, and my motivation level. The hours sitting in front of the desk are the number of hours I sat in front of the desk, including the hours I was working/studying, watching my phone, and talking with my friends. The actual working category is when I studied and did academic work. The sleep and exercise/workout category is literally what it means. The motivation category is on a scale of 1 to 10, where ten is fully motivated.
Based on the data gathered, I could realize that I was highly productive on the weekdays, especially from Monday to Thursday. This was because most of the assignments were due these days, and I wanted to ensure that I didn’t have to do much work on the weekend. Due to such pressure, the hours of sleep from Sunday to Wednesday are shorter than Thursday to Saturday. I’m not productive on Thursday compared to other days because I don’t have any classes on Friday, which makes me want to take a break. The level of motivation had a positive correlation with my productivity, as when I was highly motivated to do my academic work, I was highly productive.
In the future, I believe that the results could be more accurate if I could track my productivity for at least three weeks to get a better average. Also, additional categories could be used to analyze my productivity and increase the reliability of the data and conclusion.
Overall, I was pretty sure that I am a person that depends a lot on the level of motivation that fuels me to be productive. After I tracked my productivity, I proved that I was a very motivation-dependent person. This made me think about the ways how I can stay motivated for a more extended period as I would need to be productive for most of the days when I work after graduating college.
In this playlist, I included songs that help me stay focused. All the songs included in the playlist are instrumental with only two exceptions: one in the middle that serves as an intermission, and one as the ending. I try to make it more diverse as possible, but most of them have a melancholic, nostalgic, and calming quality —- like the painting I used as the cover, Jean-François Millet’s The Sheepfold, Moonlight.
Usually, I prefer to study in silence, especially when I’m working on assignments that require active engagement in thinking and “producing”, like writing essays or doing math homework. However, music becomes a necessary companion when I’m reading for a really long time or studying in a place where people are talking so I could stay focused.
List
さようならのうみー星野源 （sa yo na ra no u mi- hoshino gen)
Nocturnes, Op.9 -No.1 in B-Flat Minor/ Chopin, Arthur Rubinstein
Nocturnes, Op.9 -No.2 in E-Flat Major/ Chopin, Arthur Rubinstein
Consolation No.3 / Franz Liszt, Vladimir Horowitz
年輪 - 朝川朋之（nenrin-asakawa tomouki)
おかえりー岡村孝子 (okaeri- okamura takako)
エトランゼ (Tanaya mix) – スピッツ (etoranza – Spitz)
Vampurity – 岩井俊二 (Iwai Shunji)
After the Rain 日向敏文 （Hinata Toshifumi)
First Step – Peter J. Malmsjo
雨だれ – 坂本龙一 （Ryuichi Sakamoto)
Reflections – 日向敏文 （Hinata Toshifumi)
Humming Water – 吉村弘 （Hiroshi Yoshimura)
I Will – The Beatles
Source: https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/a-hermit-at-prayer-209174
My mix is mostly comprised of songs about a subject conceiving of fantastical things, as opposed to songs about fantastical things on their own. The general theme of my mix is daydreaming, though I put special thought into how I ordered the songs. Taking a cue from Francis Ford Coppola’s Apocalypse Now, my mix opens with The Doors’ The End which ironically represents the beginning of the day. The next several songs address themes of daydreaming or projecting a fantasy onto mundane things, as is the case for Pale Blue Eyes and Real Love Baby, or perhaps where it does not exist at all, as is the case for Manifest and In the Aeroplane Over the Sea. My mix ends with George Harrison’s All Things Must Pass followed by The Beatle’s A Day in the Life representing the end of a day of daydreaming.
2. Locked Away, R. City, Adam Levine
3. Hall of Fame, The Script
4. Team, Lorde
5. All I Do is Win, DJ Khaled, Snoop Dogg, Ludacris, T pain
6. I Took a Pill In Ibiza, Mike Posner, Seeb
7. Once I was 7 years old, Ben Schuller
8. Don’t Let Me Down, The Chainsmokers
9. Panda, Desiigner
10. Rap God, Eminem
11. This is America, Childish Gambino
12. BabyWipe, Ski mask the Slump God
13. High Hopes, Panic! At the Disco
The rhetorical situation I am engaging with is how to best capture my childhood. The playlist I linked to was a playlist I have had since 6th grade. Since then, I have added songs that I enjoyed listening to at the time. As time passed, the playlist became a record of my personality, my character, and me as a person through music.
The crudely made album cover is a bunch of “me’s” from 6th, 8th, 11th grade, and now. It is to represent my growth throughout the existence of this playlist and the defining periods of my life that were best captured by the playlist.
In reality, this playlist is two and a half hours long so I had to cut it down significantly.
The playlist that I created focuses on songs that I listened to when I was younger. I decided to pick this genre of music as well as this time frame because it reminds me of a simpler time when the music that I listened to was a true source of fun and entertainment. This presented the issue for me of finding songs that I not only enjoyed as a child but still would like to listen to now. I think that it is hard to gage how a person’s music taste may change as they grow up but there is a strong power that is given to songs that establish feelings of nostalgia. Once there is an outlet for reminiscing, it is clear that a person can gain a certain level of creativity and happiness from this place. Overall, I found this assignment to be very fun and enjoyable.
Link to Playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/28PwEMiTRVVKyWNmVTBZ6J?si=b3f0e4d1a5f3457d
After days of thinking about a scene to recreate, I finally gave up and decided to recreate a scene that of a movie that I despise, Lawrence of Arabia, since it is what makes more sense to recreate. While I did not have everything to master the recreation, I did my best to imitate him, of which using a cake slicer instead of the traditional Khanjar Arabs were using to protect themselves.
