Update
I’ve actually started using Notion to track all of my assignments/deliverables/to-dos, my daily time usage, notes for classes/meetings, assignments, etc. See daily time usage (as well as some fun visualizations) at my Notion dashboard.
08 January 2026
Thursday
1 hr - SWED 202 class
2 hr – CSE 527 class
1.5 hr – FSH 444 class
0.5 hr – FSH 444 assignment
0.5 hr - QSCI 381 teaching team meeting
07 January 2026
Wednesday
1 hr – SWED 202 class
1 hr – Steven meeting and some admin
1.75 hr – CENV 500 class
0.5 hr – FISH 444 reading
0.25 hr – FISH 444 pre-lab
0.75 hr – CENV 500 HW
2.75 hr – SWED 202 HW
0.25 hr – lab notebook entry
0.5 hr – TAing, answering Ed Discussion questions and DMs
06 January 2026
Tuesday
1 hr – SWED 202 class
2 hr – CSE 527 class
1.5 hr – FISH 444 class
0.75 hr — SAFS cafe
1 hr — TA admin (e.g., some more QC on assignment settings, responding to student posts/dms, tracking student exam rescheduling)
2 hr — SWED202 HW (Låt den Rätte Komma In)
2 hr — Classes admin. Inputting all my assignments and due dates (readings, discussion posts, pre-labs, and higher-level assignments like project deadlines, presentations, exams, planned deadlines for TA actions like grading and lab prep) into my Notion planner and getting that organized — I am potentially very screwed for this quarter 🙃
05 January 2026
Monday
1 hr – SWED202 class
0.75 hr – TA meeting/planning for lab
0.25 hr – Emails, calendar scheduling
1 hr – TA prep (getting to room, prepping an intro R doc, reading through course materials again, etc.)
4 hr – TAing lab sections
1 hr – TA work: updating publish dates and due dates for all HW assignments in Canvas and Gradescope, renaming all to correclty indicate associated module, linking each Gradescope assignment with its associated Canvas assignment. Fielding some student messages that popped up on Canvas and Ed Discussion following first labs, and messaging Steven/Clare about a few course kinks that came up.
04 January 2026
Sunday
1 hr – TA prep for lab tomorrow (reading through this week’s module, syllabus, course materials, etc.)
02 January 2026
Friday
6hr — Thesis Proposal edits. Kerry had ~80 comments, today I addressed half of them, down to 39 comments.
1 hr — General prep work/maintenance. Some lab notebook updates and finagling related to the move to my new computer. New goals and daily posts docs for Jan 2026. Setting up the WIN 2026 quarter’s schedule (calendar, etc.). Sorting through holiday emails. Completed registration (delayed for a bit by schedule conflict)
1 hr — TA prep work. Setting up new gradescope course, copying over assignments and rubrics, linking with canvas course, and syncing roster. Updating my “meet the instructor” portion on Canvas and familiarizing myself with Canvas site, Jupyter/Github organization, and getting on Ed Discussion. Reading through preliminary course materials.
01 January 2026
Thursday
getting lab notebook up-to-date (adding No Bones presentation prep work from before my vacation period)