Observations

It is a tuesday night in the library and one would think it would be time to start cracking down on homework. I am currently in the quiet section of the library blatantly staring at a table of three students. Let's just hope they don't notice. Two of them have their computers out, but only one seems to be working on it diligently. I'm wondering if he'll take the paper he is writing to the writing center. That same person keeps sniffling which makes me think he has a cold. I'm wondering if he got this cold by being out in the snow too long over the weekend. Although this is the quiet section of the library, these three students have not stopped chatting since I've been observing them. The talk doesn't seem to be academic considering I hear lots of quiet chuckling. I'm wondering if these three don't have a lot of work or whether they are just procrastinating and trying to avoid their work. After observing, I realize how different my observation might have been had I been able to hear their conversation. Maybe they were discussing something they learned in class or a funny thing that happened in class and I jumped to the conclusion that they were not talking about school because they were laughing. I also would need to have made a much longer observation in order to see how well they were working. Maybe they have been here all day and finally took a quick study break. There are so many things that I don't know that hopefully I won't miss in my observations at the writing center.