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Compare and contrast living at home and in hostel Some people believe that students should be living at home, and others believe that students should have a room in school’s dormitory to study. Should students be living at home or hostel? While living at home gives students a more independent and personal space to study, living hostel offers a convenient academia, which students can use time well.

On the one hand, living in hostel will interrupt their studies of those who can’t manage and schedule their time well after school. It’s easy for these students to horse around on the Internet and play on-line games. Sometimes there are many different school’s association activities, parties and games. They often attract many boarders to join. Thus when students living hostel, they may be easily influenced by extracurricular activities and spend few time studying. What’s worse, these students usually stay up all night and have abnormal sleeping which can affect their studying. On the contrary, students living at home may be controlled by their parents and easily focus on homework or studies. If students have regular work and rest, and they also can be engage in class.

On the other hand, living in hostel tends to contribute to the good studies of those who can manage time well. If students are self-disciplined, they can use the luxury of school’s resource liking laboratories, libraries, and computers to help them study. For one thing, not every family has abundant resources liking universities. Thus living in hostel is a good chance to use them when studying. Take English learning for example, boarders can go to the university’s library to look for some English books, magazines and DVDs. What’s better, they can join English learning association to practice oral language and pronunciation. They may easily have opportunities to speak English with room-mates and be immersed in an English-speaking environment. On the contrary, studying living at home always study alone and have few variations of studying strategies, thus their parents often spend a lot in hiring a tutor to enhance student’s weakness.

In short, the student’s ability to manage time decides whether living at home or in a hostel serves students better. For those who can handle time well, living in the hostel makes students enhance their studying efficiency. However, for those who can’t handle time well, living in the hostel will interrupt their studying.