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Speaker 1 00:00:05 Those sounds where the murmuring voices, uh, students in the course study space and Northwestern's main library, but I visited core and recorded that audio on Sunday afternoon. I noticed that while many students were engrossed in their work, others were doing something probably quite familiar to most listeners procrastinating.
Speaker 2 00:00:26 What comes to mind when I say the word,
Speaker 3 00:00:28 I guess, putting off work that you have a later time saving it to like last minute, I guess. So not doing work ahead of time, or like
Speaker 1 00:00:39 That description of procrastination was over by Christian. Billiet a first year social policy and economics major. I spoke to palliate. And if you other students for this segment, as someone who tends to procrastinate on work side note, that includes this radio segment. I'm so glad my editors don't know how close to airtime I finished. I found these conversations informative and helpful and hope others will too.
Speaker 4 00:01:04 I kind of think of like two types of across the nation in a way, one of them is like sitting at a desk. Like you have an assignment in front of you and you're checking your phone or you're doing anything else. That's half of what's in front of you. And the other type is where you're not seeing your desk where you don't even want to look at it right now, where you're going out to doing something else. You're not even, you don't even have the idea and committing to the work
Speaker 1 00:01:28 That was Avery Schwartz. The second year, computer science major it consensus among the students I talked to seemed to be that generally procrastination manifests in either of the two ways outlined by Schwartz. Interestingly, the students I spoke with you the second way to procrastinate, doing something totally different from coursework, as opposed to aimlessly wiling away at the time in a more positive light first-year biology major will show express the Seaport.
Speaker 5 00:02:00 I feel like you, you seem like a brain break. Cause if you keep going then just kind of burn yourself out kind of mini burnout. But so I think that's a positive, like you can get a little brain break or maybe you can have a fun bonding time with your friends, but then obviously the negatives are you're pushing on your work and going to make it more difficult for yourself.
Speaker 2 00:02:20 The idea that so-called procrastination can be productive as an empowering one, still Astro mentioned, there is a fine line to walk between fulfilling one's self and other areas and just not getting coursework done shorts for one goes through a weekly, give and take between completing his coursework and doing other things.
Speaker 4 00:02:39 Okay. This is the group of stuff that has to get done before next time. And this has to get this stuff has to get done before next time, when certain things will be like, Hey, if this doesn't get done at all, and I just can't all
Speaker 2 00:02:51 The murmur of voices are recorded at core reflects the constant necessary, give and take between procrastination and getting work done that students must go through
