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With media consumption at an all-time high, it seems like a good topic for this "What I..." post

Sunday Night 9/9 10pm - Midnight
Watching The Office on my iPad laying in bed to unwind. I like to watch a mix of mindless stuff like The Office and very in-depth, Reddit-y shows like Westworld. 
Reading in bed (David and Goliath by Malcolm Gladwell). I try to read right before bed rather than watch a screen because according to some scientist it's better for your sleep. Honestly, reading just helps put me to sleep.

Monday Morning 9/10 8am-12pm
Reading the Morning Brew in the morning for quick business news. A good way to get a broad strokes understanding of the main stories of the day. I pay attention to news more some days than others but I always read this.
Watching Tiger's final round in the BMW Championship (delayed to Monday because of weather). I'll watch him no matter when or where he's playing. Tiger IS golf.
Monday Afternoon 9/10 12:30pm
Country is my anytime, anywhere choice.

Listening to music as I get lunch and head off to class. I love music but hate taking the time to find new stuff and make playlists so I just use my friends' playlists to save me the work.























Selfies with a Social Conscience

Selfies are simultaneously lasting and fleeting. It is not uncommon to observe a friend hold up their phone, tap, examine, delete, and repeat several times before they are ready to hit send. However, selfies that do make the cut can become immortalized on Instagram and VSCO feeds. This isn't to say that any of these pictures hold any significance to anyone but the subject themselves. Selfies with a social conscience attempt to break through the white noise of the insignificant droves of first-person snapshots and send a serious message. An example of someone using selfies with a social conscience is a girl taking a picture of herself not wearing makeup every day to promote self-confidence and body positivity. In thinking of different examples of selfies with a social conscience, it occurred to me that although there are many different causes to which selfies can be devoted, it is often a long sequence or large group of photos that are used to send the message rather than a single image. I think that this can be attributed to the disposablility of the selfie. When taking a picture is as simple as a tap, and the image can be edited, sent, or deleted with just a few more taps, it is easy to collect a large number of photos and parse them together into a greater product. It would be interesting to see ways in which selfies with a social conscience could be adapted into a single image format.
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