{"id":2586,"date":"2020-04-17T13:50:30","date_gmt":"2020-04-17T13:50:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brie.hunter.cuny.edu\/hunterathenian\/?p=2586"},"modified":"2020-04-26T18:31:34","modified_gmt":"2020-04-26T18:31:34","slug":"commuting-stole-time-from-hunter-students-quarantine-gave-it-back-to-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brie.hunter.cuny.edu\/hunterathenian\/2020\/04\/commuting-stole-time-from-hunter-students-quarantine-gave-it-back-to-them\/","title":{"rendered":"Commuting Stole Time from Hunter Students, Quarantine Gave it Back"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hunter College\u2019s commuter students have more time than ever before, now that remote-learning has been put in place for the remainder of the spring semester<\/a>. These students can literally roll out of bed and attend lectures, whereas before it would take hours for them to make it to class.<\/p>\n

\u201cWaking up a couple of minutes before your class and still making it on time is nice,\u201d said biology major Sahamanta Ojeda. She used to commute to Hunter six days a week from Westchester, New York, dedicating nearly four hours each day to her commute. Ojeda learned through trial-and-error that it was better to take the train that would get her to school an hour earlier than she needed to be there, just to avoid any subway delays.<\/p>\n

With their new at-home schedule, students like Ojeda are now able to enjoy even the simplest of things. \u201cI\u2019ve been having more time to sleep, and now I\u2019m even able to eat breakfast before class, which are not always your main priorities when you\u2019re a commuter,\u201d Ojeda said.<\/p>\n

Staten Island native and biology major, Nour Elshabassy, used to commute two hours each way to attend Hunter. \u201cIt left me with four less hours each day where I could\u2019ve studied or went to the gym,\u201d he said. Now Elshabassy, like Ojeda, has been enjoying sleeping in as his old commute wouldn\u2019t allow for much rest. \u201cAnd obviously I was more tired when I went home, so that made me less productive.\u201d<\/p>\n

While these commuter students expected that their influx of time would positively impact their performance in school, they still face an old academic threat: procrastination.<\/p>\n

In a 2016 study on academic procrastination<\/a>, CUNY graduate Mark Graff found that students who rated themselves as more capable to accomplish tasks also reported higher levels of procrastination. Those same students generally reported less time being spent on work, as well as less completed assignments altogether.<\/p>\n

\u201cNow I have more time to theoretically study or do anything else,\u201d Elshabassy said. Instead, he\u2019s been using this time to indulge himself in activities he wouldn\u2019t be able to \u201cunless there was a break within the semester,\u201d like watching television or playing video games. \u201cBut I gotta say, procrastination wins,\u201d He added.<\/p>\n

Junior and accounting major Victoria Daliza used to spend four hours of her day on her commute to and from school via LIRR, and would scramble to complete her homework at night. This is no longer a concern of Daliza\u2019s, as she says: \u201cI\u2019m less stressed about having time to do my work.\u201d<\/p>\n

Daliza lucked out this semester; in addition to getting those four hours back, most of her professors are allowing all work to be submitted by the end of the term. \u201cSchool is definitely easier, especially now that my professors are being more accomodating,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Despite this, Daliza still procrastinates. \u201cI\u2019ve spent all my time watching shows, talking to my cousins on Facetime, and self-care.\u201d Since both her anniversary with her boyfriend and her birthday fell during the government issued lockdown, Daliza claimed \u201cshe got extremely down during this time.\u201d So, she booked her and her boyfriend a trip for December, and feels \u201ca vast improvement\u201d on her mood now that she has something to look forward to.<\/p>\n

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“Where I’d usually have, like, a three-hour commute, I go down into my basement and practice drums,” says sophomore Daniel Rizzo.<\/figcaption> Photo by Daniel Rizzo<\/span><\/figure>\n

Although he\u2019s a computer science major, recent transfer Daniel Rizzo spends most of his time making music. Since he\u2019s also a drummer for his hometown band, No Coincidence<\/a>, in Long Island, Rizzo has been using his free-time to work on his craft. He thinks this \u201creset,\u201d as he calls it, has resulted in his best drum-playing yet.<\/p>\n

Academically, however, Rizzo\u2019s been finding his transition to remote learning to be less straightforward. \u201cThe classes where my professors are just sort of throwing up notes for the class to take in on their own, aren\u2019t really going that well for me,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Whether the struggle comes from transitioning to an online classroom or from fighting the urge to do something more fun, these Hunter students find that they can\u2019t blame lateness on the MTA anymore.<\/p>\n

\u201cPersonally, I like the fact that I\u2019m not commuting,\u201d said Elshabassy, from Staten Island. \u201cWhat\u2019s been really getting me is that I just can\u2019t always get myself to do schoolwork. It\u2019s a huge hill I gotta get over.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

First, it was their extensive commute, but now there’s an old time-thief preying on Hunter’s commuter students: procrastination.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":68,"featured_media":2625,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,263,15,184,13,14,40],"class_list":["post-2586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture","tag-college","tag-covid-19","tag-cuny","tag-cuny-hunter-college","tag-hunter","tag-hunter-college","tag-students"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brie.hunter.cuny.edu\/hunterathenian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brie.hunter.cuny.edu\/hunterathenian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brie.hunter.cuny.edu\/hunterathenian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brie.hunter.cuny.edu\/hunterathenian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/68"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brie.hunter.cuny.edu\/hunterathenian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2586"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/brie.hunter.cuny.edu\/hunterathenian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2586\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2623,"href":"https:\/\/brie.hunter.cuny.edu\/hunterathenian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2586\/revisions\/2623"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brie.hunter.cuny.edu\/hunterathenian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brie.hunter.cuny.edu\/hunterathenian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brie.hunter.cuny.edu\/hunterathenian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brie.hunter.cuny.edu\/hunterathenian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}