When I login at startup a random folder opens

Ok, this is weird. First of all this is my first Mac and I'm having a really difficult time figuring something out. Before I do a shutdown I will close every finder window and program. The next time I turn my computer on and login I will be greeted with a random open finder window. Sometimes it's my music folder, sometimes it's a random Library folder and sometimes it's work sensative docs. During shutdown/restart I uncheck the box that asks if I want the windows to resume when I turn it back on, but that doesnt really matter since I was never using those random finder windows to begin with. Am I just not understanding something? Why does it do this 9/10 times I start my computer?

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