NARRATOR：

Now listen to two students discussing the assignment.

FEMALE STUDENT：

[doubtful] I don't know about this.

MALE STUDENT：

Why not? Sounds OK to me.

FEMALE STUDENT：

Thing is, depending on someone else makes me nervous.

My roommate had to do a project like this, and the other girl didn't show up to meetings, didn't do any research-

my roommate had to do everything herself.

MALE STUDENT：

That's a drag. I guess if your partner's irresponsible, you're out of luck.

FEMALE STUDENT：

Exactly. It hurt her grade.

I don't want the same thing to happen to me.

Right now I'm more concerned with getting a good grade, even though I know that's not the lesson the professor has in mind.

MALE STUDENT：

Still, it'll be good to listen to everyone's stuff.

FEMALE STUDENT：

[doubtful] Well, I don't know.

I mean, at the end of the semester, people are focused on studying for exams.

MALE STUDENT：

Yeah.

FEMALE STUDENT：

Who has time to put something like this together when they're busy studying?

MALE STUDENT：

True.

FEMALE STUDENT：

I can't imagine anyone' ll be able to really do a good job with it.

And everyone' ll be so preoccupied by then

that they probably won't listen anyway.

I think the professor's gonna be disappointed, and students? Well, we'll all just be frustrated by the whole thing.