Pattern Diary

A running log of coincidences, streaks and omens noticed in your own life, written up before you know what any of them mean.

Field log 01

Due: 20 August 2027 · Weight: 15%

The first assessment is the smallest and the one every later piece of work depends on. It asks for a habit, not an argument.

The brief#

Keep a diary of patterns you notice in your own life for the first four weeks of semester, writing down what happened before you write down what you think it means.

An entry can be as small as a repeated number on a receipt or as large as a dream that seemed to predict the next day. What matters is not how dramatic the pattern is, but whether the entry is honest about the order operations happened in: notice first, interpret second. A diary full of confident readings and no raw noticing is not doing what this assessment asks.

What you submit#

The diary itself (a PDF export, a shared notes-app document, or scanned notebook pages — any format a marker can read start to finish), with entries dated and legible. No word count is set; entries can be a sentence or a paragraph, whichever the observation actually needs.

The consistency criterion rewards entries spread across the weeks rather than backfilled the night before the deadline. Specificity rewards concrete detail (what exactly happened, when, where) over vague summary. Restraint rewards noticing without immediately explaining — save the explaining for the Meaning Autopsy.