Video 1 Transcript
If you want a quiet private place to study, I think the best place to go is upstairs in the WILC, like over in the side hallways where nobody is.
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Video 2 Transcript
One of my favorite places to study is the JFSB on the balcony in the springtime. I did not know about this for probably the first two years that I was at BYU and then as soon as I found out about it, I went there all the time. And it's just so nice and there's normally a lot of space up there and it's pretty quiet. They have like tables and chairs and some of them are covered with umbrellas and stuff and it's just nice to be outside where you can study, get some vitamin D and just look out on campus. It's so beautiful up there.
Video 3 Transcript
Trying to find somewhere to study is very important. Usually I would try to choose anywhere that anywhere where I usually have most of my classes. Usually each building has a area designated for students to be able to study. Some are louder than others, so just trying to find the best place that you're able to focus and be able to get stuff done and also if you need to reach out to teachers or go to office hours trying to stick to some of the buildings where you are able to access your teachers the easiest I think would be a good recommendation. But if you just need to study and kind of stay away, I usually like to pick a place, a building that has more light. Like for instance, the life science building was one of the ones that I really liked studying just because you had a good view and it just kind of gave me a little bit more peace. So that's what I would recommend.
Video 4 Transcript
My favorite place that I found was in the BYU library, the periodical section, also known as like the reading room. I found that because you're supposed to be quiet in there, I was able to stay very focused. Everyone who was in there was always studying and just staying on task and it helps me want to do the same. So that was always my favorite place to go just because it's quiet and I can get a lot of things done in there.
Video 5 Transcript
When I really need to lock in and study, I usually try to find a cubicle. Sometimes those are hard to come by, so if not, I'll just go to the periodicals, which is on the second floor, and there's a big quiet zone, and I like that because then I don't get distracted by people talking. However, there are times where I need to talk with other people or just be like a little bit louder, but I don't want to be with like a ton, a ton of people and have the noise be too loud. So for that, I go to the family history section, which is also on the second level, and there is like a snack zone and a collaborative zone, so you can talk with other people or answer a phone call if your mom or someone calls you while you're studying and you don't have to worry about running out. Other than that, I would also say the map room. There's one on, I think the second or third floor, but also there's one on the first floor, and there's a big long table there, so you can like collaborate with a bunch of people if you have to work on something together.
Video 6 Transcript
An obvious place to study is just the library. There are so many good spots. Literally, I've like looked on all five floors. I've found my favorite spots. But another place I really, really like is actually the MOA. They have a little cafe upstairs where I get food sometimes, and then I'll just sit at a table and it's a lot quieter in there, like then when you eat at the Wilk or something. And I'll eat some food, put my headphones in and work on homework for like an hour or two. It's just a super peaceful and quiet place. And also like this is kind of a weird thing to say about it, but like the lighting coming in through the windows, like just gives me such a peaceful feeling. And you can also take a study break and go look at the art and stuff. So it's super cool.
Video 7 Transcript
I love to go study in the cubicles. I find that when I go meet up with my friends and we sit at a table and we just chat the whole time and I'm not able to actually get the things done that I need to in the library, so I've started going to the cubicles that are on the first floor and it's really nice to have that quiet place where you can really focus and you're not distracted by your friends talking to you about their plans or anything like that.
Video 8 Transcript
Definitely the periodicals, just, they're so basic, but I just love them. Just, I love the quiet.
Video 9 Transcript
My go-to place to study is in the LSB, in the Life Sciences building. I believe on the main floor, like if you're on campus and you're going to the building on that same floor, they have like a little balcony on the south end of the building. I don't think many people use it that often, well not that I've experienced and it's really good, it has a really good view of Provo and yeah it's really peaceful there so I really recommend that place.
Video 10 Transcript
My favorite places to study have just been when I get out of class. Most of the buildings do have desks that you can go study at just on the upstairs, downstairs. They're super awesome. They're a lot of times peaceful.
Video 11 Transcript
My favorite place to study at BYU is on the fifth floor. You can go on to the HBL website and reserve a study room and so you can have your own private room up there and I like the ones on the fifth floor because they all have whiteboards and so you can go up there, be with some friends, or be alone and study.
Video 12 Transcript
One of my favorite places to study, honestly, is the bottom floor of the Wilk, over by the Counseling and Psychological Services Center. There's a couple couches. If you go down the stairs when you enter the Wilk from kind of where the library's at, if you turn to the left there's some stairs, you go down there, there's like five or six couches and there's always a couch or two available. It's super peaceful, super quiet. You know, it's very out of the way and I don't think a lot of people go over there to study, which is why I like it. It's just a nice, calm and quiet place to be able to, you know, get my work done and so that's one of the places that I like to study at.
Video 13 Transcript
If you're an engineering student, the Step Down Lounge in the Clyde Building is the best place to study, close to all your classes and it at least has some light in it.
Video 14 Transcript
BYU is such a stunning campus and there are so many amazing places to study. Personally, my favorite is the library. I alternate back and forth between the quiet zones and the collaborative zones, but I love both. There is also, when it's warmer outside, not when it's cold, when it's warmer outside, there is an overview, like outside the little patio area with the tables and chairs at the JFSB, and it's upstairs. You have to go up quite a few flights, but it's up there and you kind of get a scene of the library, the JKB, the Wilk. It's super pretty. You can see the mountains. It's gorgeous, and I loved going up there when it was warm outside, so that's another place I'd recommend, but definitely find a place that works for you because then you'll really be able to focus in on your studies.
Video 15 Transcript
One of my favorite places to study isn't on BYU campus necessarily, but it's really close by. It's the Provo Library. It's a big, beautiful center, and it's just fun sometimes to study someplace different. I'd also recommend going to just, like, any cafe or just any place, like, a Mexican restaurant to eat. It's really fun. I'm loving Dr. Pepper, lots of tortilla chips. Like, just find fun places, different places to study. Like, don't, just switch it up.
Video 16 Transcript
My favorite place to study here at BYU is over at the duck pond. It's south of campus, it's super nice, has a lot of shade, and you get to listen to the ducks.
Video 17 Transcript
The best place to study is the reading room in the library. It's on the second floor. When you walk into the glass side of the library, you go down one flight of stairs and it's right in front of you. It's a quiet area of the library, one of the few areas where you're not allowed to talk. And for me, it's been such a life hack because you don't get distracted and you kind of feel peer pressured because everyone else isn't talking, everyone else is studying, and it kind of helps you get into the mindset to be able to study and be exceptionally productive.
Video 18 Transcript
My favorite place to study is in the quiet area of the library and it's like behind all the bookshelves and there's just a bunch of like comfy seats with footrests and it's very awesome because you can also take naps there.
Video 19 Transcript
Places to study. This isn't so much a place, but like study rooms are fantastic if you're like working with the group. How you can reserve a study room is you just go to like Harold B. Lee Library. I just do hbll space like student study rooms. Super easy, but you can just book a study room and this is just a private room where like you have a whiteboard. Some of them even have like TVs that you can screen share to, which is a great way that you and your group can talk and like not be distracted. I personally like always try to book a study room. They fill up really quickly though. So like at least for me, I sometimes have to book mine out like two to three days in advance. And then if you're at school in the Tanner building, you almost have to book it out like five days in advance. It's just so, so competitive to get these studies rooms because they really are that effective and valuable. So that's kind of just my number one piece of advice with studying.
Video 20 Transcript
I also super love studying in the JFSB, but like on the top layers where like the sun is, it's just like so pretty. Or I just love anywhere outside when it's nice outside, especially the JFSB little courtyard or yeah, or just like on the grass outside of the library.
Video 21 Transcript
The best place to study on campus is if you go to the Tanner building and go to the bottom floor where the blue line is, but you get there before 11 o'clock, which is when everyone goes, then you can have the whole room totally open to yourself or go to the library to one of the loud floors.
Video 22 Transcript
Okay, so my favorite place to study with my friends is in the library in the quiet area and then you go behind the shelves and there's like four huge chairs with like footrests and it's the best place for naps and to study.
Video 23 Transcript
Another one of my favorite places to study is by the JFSB and there's an outside quad that you can go where they have a fountain and they have trees and it's just a really pretty quiet place with tables that have umbrellas and so it's just especially when the weather is nice in the fall in the spring it's a great place to be outside but it's still quiet and has that outdoor feeling as well.
Video 24 Transcript
Top floors of buildings, be it the JKB, one of the most top buildings, you can usually find a quiet place up there or one of the top buildings in the JFSB. I also found a room in the top of the Swickett building. I kind of just went looking at different buildings and you kind of try to find the levels of the building that have the least amount of traffic and you'll usually be able to find a quiet little spot to study. So those are great places.
Video 25 Transcript
My personal favorite place to study is by the duck ponds. You can just get a hammock and set it up and just kind of hang out because your nature, which is always a good thing, gets you out of the classroom, which is amazing. But also you can people watch a little bit as well as just be able to see the ducks and get out there, so it's really cool.
Video 26 Transcript
While I was a student at BYU, where I studied was not as critical to me as how I studied. It didn't take me long to realize that when you get tired on campus and you say, hey, I'm going to go home and work on this at home. For me, that was not very successful because when I went back to my apartment, I wanted to be with friends or roommates, or I was not very motivated to do my homework at home. So the first thing I would say about where to study is not at your apartment. And I found the most success when I stayed on campus until I was done with what I needed to do. Whether that was, I was in the school of education, so I spent quite a bit of time in the McKay building and there were some locations to study there or the library. Again, I don't think it matters where as much as do it on campus where you can stay focused.
Video 27 Transcript
There are so many places to study and not just the library. I personally never studied in the library. I didn't like that atmosphere but I had different places in different buildings that I liked going. Some of them were by myself so I could be really focused. Others were in more of a common area where I had some human interaction and would run into people. So I wouldn't say, hey this is the spot but I would tell you explore every building and find where your spot is because mine was in the basement of the JFSB or on the second floor of the McKay building.
Video 28 Transcript
So there was three main areas on campus that I predominantly studied in. Early on in my BYU career, I studied on the bottom floor of the Harold B. Lee Library in the Asian Studies area. It was a nice area there, not very crowded, and a lot of the times the people around you weren't speaking English, so it wasn't very distracting. It was good focus. Then after I got into the School of Business, we used to study on the bottom floor of the Tenor Building. There was a bunch of individual study rooms that we called the Catacombs because it was sort of dark and windowless and depressing, but it was a very effective study area. And then after I got into the Master's of Accounting program, we had access to the Graduate Student Business Lounge or the Mac Lounge on the fourth floor of the Tenor Building, which had a gorgeous view of the mountains and had some individual study rooms and stuff there too, so that was really nice.
Video 29 Transcript
My advice would be find a place that you love to study. You know, it might not be in the library or it might not be in your college building even, but if you find a really cool place where you can get a lot of work done, just kind of like adopt that as your study place because I know I would always say, oh, I'm gonna go home and study. No, or like, oh, I'm just, I'm so tired. I'm just gonna like study in bed. No, you're not. Find a place where you're able to stay awake and to stay focused and to just get as much work done as you can. You know, whether it's in some weird teeny tiny corner of the library or in some random spot on campus, just find a spot that works for you.
Video 30 Transcript
The bottom floor of the library is a place to study. Get down there where nobody else can come or where they don't wander. You can be in a place where it's quiet, study away.