Week 1 Overview
Prior to the 1st day of classes, I had a checklist that included items such as:
- Order textbooks (Amazon 😆 )
- Buy supplies and groceries for first 2 weeks
- Check syllabus for each class
- Update Google calendar with class times and work times
- …
Most of that didn’t go well. I couldn’t find some textbooks (ones that were cheap and within my price range that is), I forgot some groceries after paying for them at Cub Foods, my calendar looked frighteningly busy for a first week of classes:

My schedule for the first week of classes
To make matters worse, after forgetting my groceries, I realized the first Friday of the semester was Payday. But sadly that didn’t apply to me as I had not done any work prior to the semester starting. Despite that, I slowly got into the groove of things and made use of whatever free time I had, before the real semester started in the second week.
Tags: fall semester, first week, new semester