Capstone: Your Semester System

Eight projects is too many to start at once, and anyone who says otherwise has not tried it in a week with three deadlines. Build two things in week one - the term map and one study project - then stop, and add each remaining project only when its specific symptom actually appears. Keep the weekly ten minutes, run an honest mid-term review of what you built and quietly abandoned, and learn to abandon properly in one written line so it becomes a decision rather than a reproach. Ends with what the four students each kept: nobody more than four, and less overlap than you would expect.