<p>Does it help you concentrate or is it distracting?</p>
<p>Oh God no. If I have earphones on for more than 30 minutes, my ears start hurting like hell.</p>
<p>If anything, I’ll listen to music on my computer through the speakers. But that’s only for mindless tasks (AP Euro, Spanish, etc).</p>
<p>I actually do atleast while studying anything even vaguely involving math physics or chem. That means I do, always. It helps me concentrate in a way, taking away all the neighboring noise and in a gunny sort of way I am not distracted by James heitfield singing in the background</p>
<p>I don’t listen to music even when I’m not studying.</p>
<p>wow Mosby no offense but how can you not listen to music??</p>
<p>I actually do atleast while studying anything even vaguely involving math physics or chem. That means I do, always. It helps me concentrate in a way, taking away all the neighboring noise and in a gunny sort of way I am not distracted by James heitfield singing in the background</p>
<p>Sure, why not? But I can study without them. But if there isn’t music on, I get distracted really easily. (As in, that’s a really loud car outside. Let me go see whose it is…)</p>
<p>^^ I agree, I think music helps me focus because it clears out the noise from outside environment</p>
<p>But then, music distracts me too, though not as much… >.></p>
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<p>Just never got into it, I guess.</p>
<p>Alllllll the time. I think music helps me concentrate better. My dad disagrees though. He always flips out when he sees me studying and listening to music at the same time.</p>
<p>Yeah I do 
not all the time though. It helps me concentrate sometimes.</p>
<p>Constantly. I can’t study with silence; I need my music.</p>
<p>Hell yes! Go music WOOT WOOT!</p>
<p>No, earphones hurt.</p>
<p>I typically plug my iPod up to its speakers or I listen to the music channels on my television.</p>
<p>Always.</p>
<p>I live in a very small space, so I pretty much hear just about everything, everyone’s conversation, etc. Gotta find a way to block everything out.</p>
<p>I do, but probably shouldn’t. I’ll be 70% listening to the music and 30% concentrating on studying and when I finish writing a sentence I have no idea what I just wrote. </p>
<p>If it doesn’t have lyrics though, it’s all good.</p>
<p>^Yeah, I usually have to listen to something without lyrics or something I don’t know the lyrics to or I start singing along :b</p>
<p>I sometimes do (if I’m really bored) but it slows me down. I was doing algebra HW and I was too focused on the lyrics it took me twice my regular time… not so good!
Once I was listening to a Podcast and they said something funny/random and I started laughing and I forgot what I was doing.
Surprisingly some of my teachers at school let us listen to music (iPods and MP3) while we work when they’re not talking… I personally think this is really stupid, nobody is very productive.</p>
<p>^ That’s really cool… my school recently abolished the usage of all electronic devices in class (iPods included), so teachers flip a **** whenever they so much see iPod earphones visible. I always loved listening to music in class while doing mindless busy work.</p>