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Well, I don't know. I think the best place to study is where you learn best. And we're all different and we all might disagree on it on the particulars. I had a friend one time who studied best, I swear to God, he studied best underneath the blanket with a flashlight. And he was a top student. I can't explain. But really if you're talking in general, what's the best way to study? What's the best place to study? It's the one ‘without distractions'. Now, ‘without distractions’ means a lot of things. It means, for example, it has to be quiet. That's no auditory distractions. Now that might not apply to you. You might be able to put your Walkman on and study just fine, but I can't do that because my auditory sense and my hearing are very sensitive and I easily get distracted. And as for me the best place to study is the one that's quiet. Another thing that it has to be, I think, it has to be clean. It has to be a place that doesn't have a whole lot of sight distractions. Like if I'm trying to study in a room with the television set on, that's not a clean environment. I've got these things that I'm always looking at. Even if I've got the volume way down, so it doesn't distract me in terms of my hearing, still it's distracting my eyes. If I set my desk in front of a window so that I can see what's going on the other side of that window, I don't study. If I try to study when I've got a whole bunch of things on my desk, then I start reading the labels on the books and I start doing everything except studying. So I think it really has to be a clean environment. Third thing, I think a good place to study has to be comfortable. If you get a place that's too cold, you're putting your energy into trying to keep warm. You're not putting your energy into thinking. And if you get a place that's too hot, you're going to sleep. You can't concentrate. And so it has to be basically a comfortable place, not too cold, not too hot. And it's got to be a clean place. That's no sight distractions. And it's got to be a quiet place. That's no auditory distractions. And if I think in terms of a college, I think "Well, that really means a carrel in the library." If you haven't taken a look at those, by all means do. It's an absolutely beautiful place to study. It's a place where it's quiet and there aren't any visual distractions and it's comfortable. The temperature is always right. If you get into the habit of studying there, then whenever you sit down in one of those carrels, you're ready in your mind to study. For me, that's the best place to study.