Week 2 Lab: Personal Hygiene and Maintenance

A Lab building a hygiene maintenance schedule that survives a bad week

Before the Lab#

Bring your nominated area from week 1’s check-in, if it was hygiene; otherwise bring an honest account of your current hygiene routine as it actually runs.

In the Lab#

Introduction. Last week ended with a scoring exercise and a nominated priority. This week the point is to turn that into something with an actual shape — a schedule you could hand to someone else and have them follow, not just a good intention.

Activity 1 (groups of 3): Maintenance calendar. Each group drafts a shared seven-day grid covering four columns:

1. Shower
2. Hair wash
3. Laundry
4. Haircut due (a reminder column, not a task)

Balance a frequency that’s realistic against what the group agrees a plausible first-year student would actually manage.

Presentation: One group’s calendar goes on the board for the rest of the class to critique the frequencies chosen.

Activity 2: Peer check. Individually and privately, fill in your own real version of the calendar: a frequency for every routine task, plus a stated fallback for the week it does not go to plan. Tutors check schedules for a fallback before anything else — a schedule that only works when nothing goes wrong is not a schedule.

Discussion / debrief (pairs): Swap your filled-in calendar with one other student for one honest, one-line comment only — no further detail required.

Wrap-up: This calendar isn’t a one-off — it’s what week 4’s Assignment 1 draws its hygiene product selection from, so keep it somewhere you can actually find again.

Afterwards#

Keep the schedule. It is the artefact week 4’s Assignment 1 draws its hygiene product selection from.