At the workshop, Lesley-Ann Brown, a predoctoral intern at the Counseling Center, spoke with about 10 students and East Lansing residents about their struggles with procrastination, providing tips to resist the habit to put off homework and other important tasks.

Szymanowski said she wants to stop procrastinating because she does not enjoy the pressure she feels when she has such a small amount of time to complete her homework.

“I get mad that I can’t go to sleep,” Szymanowski said.

Ben Schneedecker, UAB’s director of leadership and education and an economics and statistics senior, said this is the first time UAB has teamed up with the Counseling Center to present a workshop for students.

“I thought that working with the Counseling Center would not only provide workshops for the students, but it would also give students an avenue that they haven’t heard about before: going to the Counseling Center,” Schneedecker said.

Brown said the Counseling Center sees students who struggle with procrastination individually for counseling.

“Students have so many different roles and responsibilities to manage, and procrastination really steals their time,” Brown said.

Brown said it is important that students address their problems with putting things off because a student’s productivity is greatly affected by procrastination.

There are many things that can lead students to avoid doing tasks on their to-do lists until its crunch time, he said.

“There are many causes of procrastination, but being overwhelmed, uncertainty about one’s ability and task difficulty tend to be some of the reasons students procrastinate,” Brown said.

Later this semester, UAB also plans to host workshops on topics ranging from time management to sleep to anxiety about studying, Schneedecker said.