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tiny_rabid_birds
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i think i must look very peculiar to outside observers while i study.
#8040430 - 02/18/08 09:56 PM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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i love music. i have to have music. i can't study in silence because it's just too goddamn boring. i lose my train of thought very quickly and end up bored, mind wandering.
so i listen to music. preferably music without clear lyrics, or no lyrics at all. electronica is good. or some distortion heavy 90s indie/alt rock. sometimes techno, but not quite so much these days. right now i'm listening to ratatat, an old favorite of mine for studying.
when i listen to music, i dance. so here i am in the student union, headphones on. rocking and bouncing and shifting my shoulders about rhythmically while staring intently at the computer screen. i'm sure the coffee i'm always downing aids in the restless behavior, but i can't maintain focus any other way.
i can imagine i look rather strange to the random passerby. have you any strange study habits, compulsions, or pet peeves?
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Re: i think i must look very peculiar to outside observers while i study. [Re: tiny_rabid_birds]
#8040479 - 02/18/08 10:03 PM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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Check out some Stars of the Lid, awesome study/stoned music
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tiny_rabid_birds
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Re: i think i must look very peculiar to outside observers while i study. [Re: Hyper_Panda_GO]
#8040495 - 02/18/08 10:05 PM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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who can you compare them to?
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Re: i think i must look very peculiar to outside observers while i study. [Re: tiny_rabid_birds]
#8040509 - 02/18/08 10:08 PM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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I am precisely the opposite of you.
I can't study w/ any kind of distractions. I gave up trying to study at home in high school. I can't listen to music, or be somewhere there are a bunch of people, or have the TV on, or anything.
No. Fucking. Distractions.
Before I graduated in December, I used to hide in the top floor of the UW library in the way way back corner.
Best place to study ever.
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Re: i think i must look very peculiar to outside observers while i study. [Re: tiny_rabid_birds]
#8040512 - 02/18/08 10:09 PM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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Music is a must when I study.
I study in my room though because I hate leaving the house for reasons other than school or parties.
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Re: i think i must look very peculiar to outside observers while i study. [Re: tiny_rabid_birds]
#8040519 - 02/18/08 10:09 PM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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Eluvium Porn Sword Tobacco
They're an ambient band, I really need to find more ambiance
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Re: i think i must look very peculiar to outside observers while i study. [Re: Madtowntripper]
#8040522 - 02/18/08 10:10 PM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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if i don't have distractions i end up falling asleep. i could have just downed two redbulls and i'd still fall asleep. silence bores the fuck out of me.
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Re: i think i must look very peculiar to outside observers while i study. [Re: tiny_rabid_birds]
#8040528 - 02/18/08 10:11 PM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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I have ADD, I think.
I probably should have got that diagnosed while I was in school sometime.
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Re: i think i must look very peculiar to outside observers while i study. [Re: Madtowntripper]
#8040540 - 02/18/08 10:15 PM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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i'm fairly certain i have some form of it as well. even though i have to study in an area full of distractions, it doesn't mean i'm studying effectively. quite often my attention wanders. however, i find it's the only way to assure i don't fall asleep for hours, or just sit there and stare at the book.
plus, a driving beat helps to really focus my thoughts.
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Re: i think i must look very peculiar to outside observers while i study. [Re: tiny_rabid_birds]
#8040551 - 02/18/08 10:16 PM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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I hate studying so I usually put it off until the night before and pull an all nighter.
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Re: i think i must look very peculiar to outside observers while i study. [Re: tiny_rabid_birds]
#8040557 - 02/18/08 10:17 PM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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tiny_rabid_birds said: plus, a driving beat helps to really focus my thoughts.
Yeah, I was thinking music w/ lyrics. I could see how something lyric-less might help.
If only techno didn't make me want to shove a pacifier in my mouth and slit my fucking wrists.
-------------------- After one comes, through contact with it's administrators, no longer to cherish greatly the law as a remedy in abuses, then the bottle becomes a sovereign means of direct action. If you cannot throw it at least you can always drink out of it. - Ernest Hemingway If it is life that you feel you are missing I can tell you where to find it. In the law courts, in business, in government. There is nothing occurring in the streets. Nothing but a dumbshow composed of the helpless and the impotent. -Cormac MacCarthy He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God. - Aeschylus
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Re: i think i must look very peculiar to outside observers while i study. [Re: Tangerines]
#8040573 - 02/18/08 10:19 PM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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of course. it's the only way i do it too.
i'm not "studying" per se right now though. i'm skimming over a book i was supposed to have read by last week. it's not a bad book, really, but i cannot fucking keep up with this class. it's a new book every week... granted, they're old school sci-fi dystopian novels, so they're pretty cool. but i have too much other shit to read that much! i'm trying to finish The Sleeper Awakes tonight... still have like a third of it to go.
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Re: i think i must look very peculiar to outside observers while i study. [Re: Madtowntripper]
#8040575 - 02/18/08 10:19 PM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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Quote:
Madtowntripper said: I am precisely the opposite of you.
I can't study w/ any kind of distractions. I gave up trying to study at home in high school. I can't listen to music, or be somewhere there are a bunch of people, or have the TV on, or anything.
No. Fucking. Distractions.
Before I graduated in December, I used to hide in the top floor of the UW library in the way way back corner.
Best place to study ever.
same way.
only place I can study at is a library pretty much.
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Re: i think i must look very peculiar to outside observers while i study. [Re: tiny_rabid_birds]
#8040580 - 02/18/08 10:21 PM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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Luckily my classes do not require me to read much because I am terrible at keeping up with that. I have a Biology midterm this friday I think I am going to start studying Wedensday to save myself the pain. Plus friday I plan on seeing Funkadelic on some doses.
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Re: i think i must look very peculiar to outside observers while i study. [Re: Tangerines]
#8040588 - 02/18/08 10:22 PM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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Tangerines said: Music is a must when I study.
The Grateful Dead have been with me through all of my late desperate nights of cramming, as well as most of my day-to-day homework/studying.
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Re: i think i must look very peculiar to outside observers while i study. [Re: tiny_rabid_birds]
#8040593 - 02/18/08 10:23 PM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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When I study I listen to Pantera, Slayer, White/Rob Zombie, Manson, etc.
A lot of people find that weird.
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Re: i think i must look very peculiar to outside observers while i study. [Re: Entropymancer]
#8040594 - 02/18/08 10:24 PM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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Boards of Canada are my saving grace when studying.
I can't do hip hop because I either get lost in the lyrics and forget about studying OR I get so much into studying that the lyrics just blow past my ears and the lyrics are what hip hops all about.
THe less lyrics the better when studying just as t_r_b said.
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