Sketching/observation Exercise

1. Language and Identity

How do languages shape our identity?
How do bridge the gap between different languages (in the aspect of Chinese and English?)

I tracked the English language learning progress of me and two close friends whose mother language is mandarin. And all of us has been to an English speaking country for several years.

2. My procrastination Pattern

Subject: Behaviorial Economics; Physcology

I started with my daily activity tracking on paper, and found three important factors that explains my procrastination pattern: phone usage, hours of sleep and daily workload.

What makes me sleep less is not my workload, instead, it’s my PROCRASTINATION. I fall into the “naive people” category in the econ model, and I didn’t realize that… “Present bias”: people give more weight to the payoffs that are closer to the current time.

3. Mood Tracker

Use a fluid vehicle to represent my mood