Earphones on, the playlist is ready, and your paper is blank. You’ve read and reread the instructions. Now, it’s time to write.

Do you listen to music while writing graduate school essays or any other assignment? It’s a common scene in the library, in the lecture room, even inside your dorm. And it does incite curiosity because contrary to this, others could only write with total silence or minimal noise.

Music as shield

The practise of writing with music in the background is a f...