With September looming around the corner, we begin to fall back into usual habits filled with hours of cleaning, organizing, and yes, studying. Gone are the days spent on the beach or sleeping in as we bid the summer a wistful farewell. A new semester is set to begin, and whether you’re a freshman about to start the next chapter of your life or a junior like me who’s trying to wrap her mind around the fact that she’s half way through college, your schedule is bound to fill up with endless essays, group projects and the occasional brunch date (it can’t all be all work and no play, right?).

Still, September brings not only the beginning of a new (yet no less stressful) school year, but also the promise of immense procrastination with one of the most anticipated television events of the year: the fall TV lineup. New shows premiere, others are cancelled, favorites are brought back for new seasons, and networks thrust us into an entertainment whirlwind of ads and promos until thoughts of school are nothing but a distant memory.

And suddenly math isn’t that hard (unless you’re a math major already, in which case you have my highest respect) because we’re calculating the average television to homework time ratio and it’s serious stuff. They clearly don’t want us to study – why else would they have something new and/or interesting (read: obsession-worthy) for every single day of the week? I mean, we have to catch The Voice on Mondays and Tuesdays. Wednesdays are full between "Arrow"and "Empire," and don’t even get me started on Thursdays (curse you, Shondaland), though "Scandal’s" noticeable absence from this season’s TGIT lineup will definitely blow a hole in anyone’s excuse for a three hour study break.

I’ll admit, somany of my all-nighters have come because the TV was conveniently on while I was studying (for background noise, I swear) and I just couldn’t turn it off. Balancing free time between working and relaxing (if you can call watching those "Quantico"episodes relaxing) is a tricky skill to master. Between Netflix and these networks bombing us with reminders for their weekly schedules, it takes serious will power to keep that GPA up to standards. One day you can be comfortably caught up in all of your classes and choose to take a night off for some well deserved TV, and before you know it you’ll drop into a time warp and a week later find yourself bursting into a stress-induced panic as you sob over your third slice of dollar pizza.

It’s all about striking a good balance. You’ll stress and freak over that ten-page paper you should have started last week (there’s this thing called “adulting” we’re expected to do now?) but everything will pause for that half hour you take to watch the new "Modern Family." And hey, if you really can’t stretch for that 20-minute break to catch it live, that’s why the gods invented Hulu.