You've probably heard that classical music is good for studying, taking tests and doing creative work. This idea stems from the "Mozart Effect," a term coined in 1993 when scientists discovered that ...

December brings fall semester's final exams and some students turn to music to help while they study. But is that a good idea? A September article from University of Maryland Global Campus touts the ...

The Daily Campus Life Section discusses whether listening to music while studying is s productive way to stimulate college students, or if it’s a distraction. Photo by felipepelaquim/Unsplash. Yet ...

I can’t work in silence. And if I’m working with words—which is most of the time—I can’t work while playing typical pop, rock, or hip-hop. So I collect instrumental and foreign-language music on a ...

Headphones can seem ubiquitous in a college library, a function of responsible students’ attempts to isolate themselves from the conversations and noises around them. However, another form of ...

Your upstairs neighbors sound like they're rearranging the furniture and your roommate's clipping her toenails across the room. How do you drown out sound to study? There's always white noise, or just ...

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