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20 study songs to get you through the school year

Studying is often more enjoyable and more productive with some good tunes in the background. Whether you’re cooped up in a Starbucks, spread out at the library or holed up at your dorm desk, here are 20 songs for every intense studying scenario.

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1. When you fell asleep on your laptop keyboard and didn’t even realize it:
“Sleep Paralysis” by Bad Suns


“I wake up and I believe it/Who knows where these fears come from…”

2. When you forgot about your test, and you speed-study because it’s the class period before:
“We’ve Got A Big Mess On Our Hands” by the Academy Is…


“I always put myself/In destructive situations/I need oxygen/To be exposed where no one goes, where no one’s been/When it all comes crashing…”

3. When you remembered your test, but you’re participating in some top-notch procrastination:
“I Was A Teenage Anarchist” by Against Me!


“I was a teenage anarchist, looking for a revolution/I had the style, I had the ambition…”

4. When you’ve been hunched over your computer for five hours, and you’re just not so sure you’ll ever stand up straight again:
“Am I Pretty?” by the Maine


“Tell me love, oh, ‘Am I pretty?’/(Ba ba ba bada) Am I pretty?”

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5. When you’re so deep in a math problem that you’re questioning your existence:
“If I Believe You” by the 1975


“Would that make it stop if I told you I need you?/Is that what you want?”

6. “When it’s a minute before the deadline, and you’ve pressed the submit button:
“Victorious” by Panic! At The Disco


“Tonight we are victorious/Champagne pouring over us/All my friends were glorious/Tonight we are victorious…”

7. When you’ve read the same line in your book over and over again:
“Over And Over” by Neck Deep


“Sink into my thoughts to get away from here/Eight weeks to take that drive/And think this one over/All over and over…”

8. When you’d rather start staying in and doing homework on Friday nights:
“Fluorescent Adolescent” by Arctic Monkeys


“Discarded all the naughty nights for niceness/Landed in a very common crisis/Everything’s in order in a black hole/Nothing seems as pretty as the past though…”

9. When you reward yourself with a scroll through Facebook because you opened up a new document and titled it:
“Bad Habit” by the Kooks


“You can’t get it, it’s a/A bad habit, such a/bad habit, such a bad, bad habit/It’s a bad habit…”

10. When you’re trying to get shit done in the library, and someone wants to have an hour-long conversation:
“Talk Too Much” by COIN


“Caffeine, small talk/Wait out the plastic weather/Mmhmm, uh uh, discussing current events/I’ll take my time/I’m not the forward thinker…”

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11. When you really just need to chill out:
“Cool Blue” by the Japanese House


“This cool blue water/In this feeling you brought to me…”

12. When you really just need to wake up:
“Fueiho Boogie” by Swim Deep


“Ooh, we’re in the house of fun/Ooh, we’re gonna run and run…”

13. When you realize it’s been seven hours, and you haven’t seen sunlight:
“I’ve Been Dead All Day” by Bayside


“Well I’ve been dead all day/Could you tell? Could you tell?/This is where I leave here, and I save myself…”

14. When you realize it’s been nine hours, and you haven’t drank water:
“Stay Alive” by Andy Black


“Stay alive for the good times/Stay alive through the bad/Stay alive for the hopes and the fears and the dreams/The best that we ever had…”

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15. When you’re trying to get pumped for that presentation, but your crippling anxiety is just too much:
“Can’t Save Myself” by As It Is


“I can’t help the way my mind is hardwired to hate myself/’Cause I swear that this is hell/The way I desperately try to save myself/’Cause I can’t save myself…”

16. When you complete the final assignment for a class:
“Nice2KnoU” by All Time Low


“So long, so nice to know ya, nice to know ya/I’m sorry to say/We can’t go back to yesterday…”

17. When you’re 300 pages into your 500-page history reading assignment:
“Bored To Death” by Blink-182


“The voices in my head are always screaming/That none of this means anything to me…”

18. When you cancel plans to finish studying:
“WHERE THE HELL ARE MY FRIENDS” by LANY


“Where the hell are my friends?/Out without me again/Friday, wine and the internet/A life I wish I could forget…”

19. When you find out what ‘x’ finally equals:
“Happy Song” by Bring Me The Horizon


“S.P.I.R.I.T./Spirit, let’s hear it/S.P.I.R.I.T./Spirit, let’s hear it/Let’s go!”

20. When you’re actually studying a subject you enjoy:
“On The Brightside” by Never Shout Never


“You’re only as tall/As your heart will let you be/And you’re only as small/As the world will make you seem/And when the going gets rough/And you feel like you may fall/Just look on the bright side/You’re roughly 6 feet tall…”

What jams do you study to?