Sitting in the library, it is not rare to see all kinds of distractions around the students who are studying. As the high technology has developed rapidly these days, people can obtain as many information as they want by simply touching the glass screen, and there is no limit for the location either, such that two of the biggest distractions become internet and phone.

In the library, spotting a student with earphones on is a really common thing and same to the students who are checking out their phone. Personally, I am a fan of studying while listening to music, which leads to my dependency on the phone. After we cover the influence of music on people in the class, I realize that how strongly it could influence my efficiency of studying. Since the sensory memory would automatically encode the lyrics into meaning and interpret it in our minds, it will constantly interrupt our encoding of the materials that we are supposed to learn results the lower efficiently studying process. And while encoding the lyrics, it also could interrupt the understanding of the academic materials. Since generally the best way of learning is to deeply understand, think about the materials, and interpret the materials into your own way of understanding. But constantly of encoding the meaning of the lyrics will be a strong interferes of the understanding of the academic materials. In conclusion, even without internet, phone can be a big distraction.

Internet is one of the greatest invention in the world, but every coin has two side, people begin to found out the crazy influence that internet has on people. Students nowadays just can not help checking the phone out no matter what they are doing even studying. For example, I just used fifteen minutes searching on internet about the summer internship which is totally not as in a hurry as the blog assignment is. And if checking the phone once an hour, it is totally fine, but if it is too frequently, it is definitely going to hold the progress back. Because the short term memory only lasts for 12 to 30 seconds, if you want to transfer the memory into long term memory, you need to either using a better way of studying such as memorize semantically, or rehearsal in a proper amount of time. Using phone frequently results of getting interrupted every, for instance, five minutes, which means a few minutes after encoding the sensory memory into short term memory, the distraction will come in and messed up the right track.

In general, parents always do not like to see children studying with television, or internet near them, when I was young, I could not tell why, but after the principles and theories I learned in the class, I finally got it and know the proper conditions to study efficiently which is that turning off everything related to world outside, and keep yourself into a peaceful place.