If you’re anything like me, you’ve been looking forward to this week for months now — this week being the week most fall shows come back onto air.
Amidst all the excitement, however, one question remains.
How are we ever to balance our insane TV schedules with the demands of schoolwork so that we don’t flunk all our classes?
Especially as this is my senior year, I feel increasingly more pressure not only from classes, but from the race to get my GRE and grad school applications done, all before the looming deadline of December 15th (or 1st, as some of the more demanding schools are requiring).
Even though I haven’t started any new TV shows this season other than “Elementary”(which I’m still not completely sold on yet), I already find myself falling behind. So here are a couple things I do in terms of my TV life.
First, I make a list of all my shows and the times they air. This seems like such a simple thing, but seeing it all laid out like that reminds me what is coming up for any specific day. I can also mark the number of episodes I’m behind on using the list.
Second, I utilize whatever spare time I have to catch up on shows. The best time, in my opinion, is dinner. You might as well take a break from studying, right? And watching TV probably would enhance the dinner experience as well, so why not?
Finally, I will sometimes just take a random hour to reward myself with an episode of my favorite show that I’m behind on. You owe it to yourself to check out for an hour and enjoy some good TV. Burning yourself out will only hurt you in the end.
I wish you all luck in your television endeavors.
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