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"  As I&amp;#039;m getting in to the groove of the school week, I&amp;#039;m realizing how challenging it is going to be to balance doing my homework with hanging out with friends. I really am enjoying all of the classes I am taking but they require a ton of outside of class work! I have articles and books to read and Chinese to practice and record every single night. Sure, I could just study week nights and hang out with friends on the weekends but that&amp;#039;s harder to do than it sounds! The other day I made a plan to get back from class, go to lunch, and come back to my dorm and do homework before my next class - a plan that fell through almost immediately. My roommates, Sam, and Felicia, went down to get lunch with me and met up with our friends Haben and Naveed. Those two send all three of us into hysterical laughter every time we see them, which we try to make pretty often. My study plans were ruined by inviting them up to our room to hang out for a while which took up the time I had left open for studying!  In the moment I always think it&amp;#039;s worth the study time I am missing because I am having so much fun, and truly enjoying myself. At the time, I never think about the fact that I haven&amp;#039;t done my homework, or that I am procrasinating. I just call it bonding and make new plans to do my homework later - plans that I can easily move over again and again if anyone else asks me to hang out.  Every night after dinner, my roommates and I study for a good chunk of time as uninterrupted as we can. They are very good at studying and unlike me they don&amp;#039;t get distracted constantly by friends walking by or facebook (a terrible procrastination method.) As much as I like my classes, it is still hard to concentrate when all I really want to be doing is hanging out with friends and having fun.  My roommates are helping me learn better study habits, though, by having great ones themselves. We have a deal that no one comes over while we are all studying and we don&amp;#039;t play music or the TV. With their help I&amp;#039;ll be able to tone down the distractions and get some work done (hopefully!) It&amp;#039;s a tough balancing act, to fit in my homework around my friends and down time, but I&amp;#039;m going to need to learn it before I forget to do an assignment or worse, miss out on time with my friends! "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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