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BRITNEY: Just one of the biggest things for me is music. I know it is really not a
technology but, err; I am always listening to music. Whenever I am writing my paper
I have my super intense headphones that I can not hear anything else around me
and it is just the signal to everyone else me to leave me alone so I can write.
ELENN: That is fantastic and do you listen to the music really, really loud? Or do you
just listen enough-
BRITNEY: It is not really loud, at all. I listen, it is just loud enough that I can
hear what is going on but just so that I am not
only listening to music.
ELENN: So it is a misnomer when parents think kids have to be in a silent room to
do homework.
BRITNEY: Oh my god if I was in a silent room I wound not get anything done.
MASON: Because we would be forced to find other things to do to distract yourself.
Because with music you can kind of focus like when you get distracted you can at
least go on to the music but you it totally quite you are like oh look this is interesting
and you pull it up onto the desk and start fiddling around with it and this is fun but
then your like oh ya I am suppose to be doing a paper. So you go back to the paper
and a couple of minutes later you are grabbing something else, ya.
ELENN: Interesting, so distraction is a big issue and the technology keeps you from
being distracted.