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When most people think of college they think either "homework" or "party" or sometimes both. These two activities seem at odds. They are exact opposites. How are you to do both? Study, party, study, party? Well, yes. Trying to figure out how to manage your homework and your social life can be difficult.

It's important to remember that school should be your priority (seeing as you are paying good money to go) and that the social aspect of college comes after. But there is no reason you shouldn't be able to accomplish both. Here are a few tips to manage your homework, so you can get good grades AND have fun in college!

The first step to beginning a great semester is to take the time to reflect on what you have done well (and not so well) during previous semesters. Perhaps you have enjoyed the parties you have attended, but haven't been so happy with the grades you've received. Or maybe it's the other way around; you have excelled academically, but now wish to make more friends. Whatever the case, analyze what you have found to be lacking in the past and then make specific goals that you will hold yourself to in order to effect changes in your life.

Convenience - Imagine you live far away from any college campus. You won't have to leave the comfort of your home to attend class, and eliminating the commute also helps on your costs.

While everyone has their own way they like to organize their life, not everybody does it. And in college, where life can often get hectic and crazy with projects and papers continuing to pile up, organization can be an extremely valuable quality. So promise yourself that this semester you'll take the challenge to be more organized in your life. Take the time to look through your class schedules and syllabuses in order to make sure that important due dates are recorded somewhere that you won't forget them.

Day One - The key to staying on top of homework is to get started right away. The instant you get your first assignment of the semester, work on it that day. Don't put off your first assignments just because the due dates are a week away. If you put it off, before you know it, you will have tripled the work to do and half the time to do it.

Study Area - Another helpful strategy for homework is having a special "homework place." This could be a corner of the kitchen, a bedroom desk, a library cubical, or a deserted hallway. Make sure that that place is used only for homework and that nothing else will distract you there. This will help your mind get in the homework-mode. Don't contaminate the "environment of focus" with meals, Youtube, Facebook, or pleasure reading.

Homework Party - Finally, to spice up the study time a little more, try holding a homework party with some friends. Get together and do your homework, even if you are all working on different things. Distracting yourself is one thing, but the guilt of distracting your friends when they are trying to concentrate may give you the incentive to stay on task longer than you normally would.

A new semester is a new start, so make sure you begin on the right foot. Good luck.