After monitoring my media consumption this past week, I came to a rather unsurprising conclusion: I spend a lot of time staring at Power Point presentations.

As a student, it’s no shocker that the largest portion of my media intake comes from lectures and presentations. This week included a lecture from John Sterman at Sloan and a presentation on the remediation of a former refinery in Baltimore, Maryland. My frequent exposure to big-screen learning might also explain why I find myself looking for shorter, smaller bursts of media on my walks home. It turns out that those between-class glances at Instagram, Twitter and Facebook add up. Even more pronounced was my social media usage while in “transit.” I happened to go out of town this weekend and happened to spend an embarrassing amount of time using social media, text and email on the flight and going to-and-from the hotel and my research site. Overall, I chose to represent my data set in four categories: MIT, Home, Transit and Field Work. A few reflections on each category:

MIT
I spend a lot of time here. This category marked the broadest range of uses with everything from online news to in-person presentations.

Home
I tend to do a lot of in-person interacting at school so I tend to catch up on my reading at home.

Transit
I typically bike to school but traveling with a studio team to Baltimore required a substantial amount of coordinating which we accomplished via text.

Field Work
My camera ran out of storage during a site visit for another course. I wound up working around things by taking photos via Instagram.