Today I finished taking all my midterms. During this week that I had to take the exams, I found the key to being productive and focused. For most days, I had to stay up well into the night, and I needed to find a way to be able to stay awake without getting distracted so that I could get the most studying done. Everyone at home is asleep while I’m studying, so my entire house is silent, which is too silent to focus. Instead of being able to read and understand what I am reading, I get distracted by the lack of noise. Through Business Insider, I came across Coffitivity, which is the most amazing productivity tool on the internet right now.

Coffitivity plays the white noise of a busy coffee shop, with three settings:

Morning Murmur Lunchtime Lounge University Undertones

According to Coffitivity themselves:

Coffitivity recreates the ambient sounds of a cafe to boost your creativity and help you work better.

I agree. When I go to my local coffee shop, I get a lot of work done. Part of it is the environment that is created with some people having conversations over a cup of coffee and others hunched over their laptops trying to get the essay for English done (me). I find background noise like a cafe’s really helpful. Sometimes, however, a cafe can get way too loud, but that’s where Coffitivity comes in. Having control over the volume of the background noise, I can adjust it to the activity that I am working on. For example, when I was reading my history book, I had to keep it at a lower volume; reading in complete silent is just too quiet and I get easily distracted. When working on math, I tried to keep the volume at a higher level, but my preferred setting was the following:

Drinking coffee at around 5:40pm every day was also helpful for being able to stay up for long periods of time, and I had to research sleep patterns so that even if I went to bed really late (I have to wake up at 5:30am) I wouldn’t feel like a troll when getting up.

Sleepyti.me is a helpful tool for finding out at what time you should go to bed so that you can complete a full sleep cycle, and that way when waking up you won’t feel terrible.

These methods were helpful for me, I only got two Bs (AP World History and PreCalc), and both were 88%. I hope these are also beneficial for everyone else.

Ciao.