I think listening to music while studying is subjective

Some recommend you NOT listen to music while studying. Some recommend you do. Some say listen to classical/instrumental/soothing music, others say you should listen to what YOU like.

Its all subjective if you ask me. What works for you may not work for me. I love classical music, new age music, instrumental music, so I have no problem playing it, thats where I get my thoughtful moments, thats how I get to my happy place.

But I am not sure if it will help me studying. For me, its both a distraction and escape from other distractions.

My roommate's blaring her tv loudly, so my music drowns it out, id much rather be distracted by something I like and have control over.

For me, if I do listen to music while studying it has to be soothing. I have almost every genre of music on my itunes, but the only one that is good for me to hear while studying is my classical/new age music. Pop music will make me want to dance or sing along.

Now the question is does listening to music really work? Some say it really doesn't. But some say it does. That is what makes it ultimately subjective, we all have our own way of studying. There is always an exception to the rule, there is always is always two sides to a statistic.

It also depends on the situation you are in...in any normal situation I wouldn't want to listen to music, but i need something to help me not get distracted by other loud noises that are out of my control.

Time to close the high school chapter of my life officially

Unofficially the high school chapter of my life ended when I graduated in 2008. But I never really let go. For years I wanted to graduate, and after graduating I wanted to go back.

As I said in a different post, "the present doesn't stop sucking until it becomes the past".

I am like the only person who really hasn't changed since high school. Not in looks or personality.

Everyone else has changed, this one girl who is uglier than me has had several boyfriends. She even decided to go republican (blech!). Everyone is changing.

I am constantly surrounded by people at my university who have spoken about how they have changed since high school.

I really haven't changed. Other than occasionally wearing my hair in a different style. Wearing a skirt every now and then, and writing more poetry, I am still the same misanthropic anti-social depressed person that I was in high school. I still haven't dated (and quite frankly I don't see that happening). I have no stories to tell really.

I am trying to find myself though....

but its time to close the high school chapter. its over. those people are out of my life. i shouldn't compare myself to them. Its time to start my own life separate from that of high school.

An interesting thought about time periods

When one gets fed up with the tech world of today and the misery its contributing to, one often starts feeling life would be better before all those inventions.

But as much as we sometimes vie for an older time. One should realize, that there is no such thing as an easier time period.

All time periods including today, are rough in their own respective senses. Sure if we go back 100 years we won't have to deal with computers. But we would have to deal with several different problems.

Each time has its own ups and downs. And besides that most of us are not reared to survive other times.

I remember when my 11th grade english teacher asked us the question when we were going into reading the book Kindred, she asked "Do you think you could survive slavery?"And all of us said no.

She explained that even the strongest probably couldn't survive. And considering those actually living it could barely survive, how can any of us, who are conditioned in our own time period survive that kind of period?

This corralates with my theory (mentioned in my other blog Questions of a Biracial Girl), that the present always sucks until it becomes the past. Meaning, when in the moment we focus more on the bad. But once enough time has passed by and that present has become the past, we will often look at the past in a more positive light because well its over and it doesn't affect us nearly as much anymore.

What REALLY made it the Golden Age of Hollywood

In a sense, its real reason is similar to that of Nickelodeon.

With Nick, the 1990s was its Golden era. The 1980s built it up and the 1990s was when everything was coming out.

But what made both that and the Golden age of hollywood, a golden age are the following:

1. New heights. When talkies came out they changed the movie industry, and then there was color. These new things to movies shaped it out. Likewise with Nickelodeon, a tv channel that broadcasted game shows, cartoons, and sitcoms all produced by the network brought it new heights.
2. New ideas. Today Hollywood feels repetitious. Constantly movies are remade, or rehashed in a lame sequel. But back in the 1940s, these were new ideas, new concepts.
3. Glamour. Old Hollywood was very glamourous courtesy of MGM.
   
4. Back in old hollywood, it was a big deal to be a part of a studio. These studios were reaching their first height in art.

It wasn't so much acting that made it a golden age, its the newness that was involved...not to mention we have the tendency to look at the past as a better time when we feel the present sucks. The present always sucks until it becomes the past.

Opinionated answers are not always the best ones

Right now I have to do a philosophy paper, and I am trying to choose which question I want to make my essay about.

One question is a right or wrong answer type. While the other is more opinionated. There is advantages and disadvantages to both.

Using the right or wrong answer question for an essay is easier because you dont have to support evidence as much. Yet the disadvantage is that it makes it harder to sometimes meet the requirement because there may not be enough answer for the question-essay.

The advantage to using opinionated answer questions is that you get to form your own answer. The problem though that makes it hard isn't whether your answer is right or wrong but how well you support it. You have to support it much more than a right/wrong answer question because well its an opinion and you have to be convincing, there are no barriers.

Both can be hard based on the particular situation and case of the moment.

Comfort in being alone

I am a big advocate in the "comfort in being alone" ideology.

One cannot begin to be comfortable with themselves, and even like themselves let alone love themselves, if they are not comfortable in being alone.

You see, when you vie for friends, and don't want to be alone or want to find happiness in being alone, you will often do whatever you can to have friends.

For example: You like R&B and Pop, a group of people you are often around prefer country music and don't like r&b and pop whatsoever. In order to be friends with them you hide what you like and do not make mention of it. The fact that you did that can open up the doors to allowing yourself to be walked all over by them because the fact that you would change what you like to fit their needs allows them to do whatever they want to you because you vie not to be alone and vie for friends.

In the end, they are not truly your friends and so you gave up being you for people that don't like you and you come up losing.

Now, the thing is by being you, yes its possible to make enemies. But if you can accept being alone and find happiness and fun in being alone, then you will become more solid in being you because the fear of being friendless and alone isn't painful or scary anymore because you know you can still have fun and happiness alone.

Its true, that if you can't find happiness in being you, then you are not going to find happiness at all.

Opinions matter to an extent, based on who it is coming from and the grounds of which the opinion is based on.

But we can't live by those opinions all the time. There is always going to be someone who disagrees...one just has to become firm in what they want and not what others want. It is too easy to fall into the trap of people pleasing.

Girly Girls, Sporty Girls, and Tomboys

There are several types of girls. But these 3 particular types of girls get confused for one another.

Here is what makes each type different:

1. Girly Girls: This type of girl is flat out girly, mall shopping, loves makeup, looking perfect, has no athletic abilities whatsoever, and are often considered physically weak.

2. Sporty Girls: This type is just like the girly girl except unlike the girly girl they are athletic and are not physically weak. But while they dabble in the arena of sports, they dress and maintain themselves just like a girly girl.

3. Tomboys: This type of girl is like the sporty girl in the fact that they are not physically weak and like sports. But the difference is that they do not maintain themselves like the girly girl. They often dress and act/behave like boys. They do not care to look like the sporty or girly girl.

So those are the 3 types of girls. Of course there are subgenres and other genres of types of girls. I myself am partially a girly girl, while being low maintenance and laidback.