{"id":8580,"date":"2017-11-07T18:37:11","date_gmt":"2017-11-07T22:37:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/?p=8580"},"modified":"2017-11-07T18:37:11","modified_gmt":"2017-11-07T22:37:11","slug":"whats-your-study-playlist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/2017\/11\/07\/whats-your-study-playlist\/","title":{"rendered":"What’s Your Study Playlist?"},"content":{"rendered":"

There are many components to the perfect study environment. How many people are there? \u00a0What is the temperature? \u00a0Are you wearing comfortable clothes? \u00a0Can you fall asleep in your study position? \u00a0Will you be hungry and need to move soon? \u00a0And lastly, what type of music do you want? \u00a0The answers to all of these questions will differ per person. \u00a0Some people like to study in groups and others alone. \u00a0It also depends on what a person is studying for on what type of environment they want. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Most college students listen to something when they study; Whether that\u2019s music, tv or something else. \u00a0The music that people listen to differs based on the subject and type of homework that they are doing. \u00a0The one thing that most people have in common is that they don\u2019t want to have to sing along to the songs as they are studying because that easily distracts them. \u00a0This means that you need a different playlist for studying than for driving, where the whole goal is to perform a concert in your car. \u00a0People try to achieve this goal in different ways. \u00a0It\u2019s hard to find a balance between music to listen to for fun and music to listen to for studying. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

This is because you don\u2019t want to listen to music that you know and like to dance to when you should be concentrating on calculus. \u00a0Some people listen to music in another language so that they are not tempted to sing along and they just listen to it in the background. \u00a0Others listen to a different genre of music that they don\u2019t know well so that they can\u2019t be too distracted by it. \u00a0Another option is listening to instrumental music.<\/span><\/p>\n

Once you figure out what type of words you want in your study music, you then have to decide how slow or fast you want the music to be. \u00a0Perhaps you want it fast to keep you awake when you are reading a particularly boring textbook, or you want it slow when you are trying to concentrate on a long specific problem. \u00a0You also need to choose if the music is relaxing or intense, or upbeat, slow, or somewhere in between. \u00a0\u00a0All of these decisions depend on the type of work you are doing at the time and can also vary depending on your mood. \u00a0The seemingly simple task of choosing a playlist to study is actually much more complicated than you initially think.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There are many components to the perfect study environment. How many people are there? \u00a0What is the temperature? \u00a0Are you wearing comfortable clothes? \u00a0Can you fall asleep in your study position? \u00a0Will you be hungry and need to move soon? \u00a0And lastly, what type of music do you want? \u00a0The answers to all of these […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2188,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[776,432,192,894],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8580"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2188"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8580"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8580\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8581,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8580\/revisions\/8581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}