Barbara Hanza, an undergraduate trying to find herself

It is the weekend, and you are utterly exhausted. Going to college full time, in a city you don’t know, has made for an exhausting year so far. Classes are so much more in-depth and take more time than you expected, and despite a few weak attempts, you haven’t been able to make anything like friends.

All of your fellow students in the Anthropology department seem just as stressed and busy as you are, and you’re not the type to be the active participant in forging new friendships.

That said, you feel like you’re starting to reach the point where you have a bit of free time every day, and that means you want to use it effectively! You’ve read online about how useful habit tracking apps are, so now that you have a day and a half of no further responsibilities, you are ready to download one!

The first one you see is one called Task Master, and it installs quickly. Soon, you’re looking at the profile you have on it, which seems to be premade for you, somehow.

Attributes

Femininity: 24

Humanity: 34

Intelligence: 32

Nerdiness: 19

Sluttiness: 6

You’re a little scandalized by some of the attributes, but that’s mollified somewhat by the relative low score you have in Sluttiness. There’s another list, one of your Skills.

Skills

Confidence: 0

Conversation: 0

Culture: 0

Fitness: 0

Magic: 0

Performance: 0

Sex: 0

Unlike the Attributes, it seems that the Skills start at 0, and build up as you do Tasks associated with them. That makes sense, but you’re still blushing a little seeing Sex as a skill. Also, Magic? Like, being a magician? Weird. You pull up the tab for Tasks, and see it’s already populated with some.

Tasks

Go for a jog 1/day

Study for class 1/day

Watch a TV show 1/day

Go to a bar

Try an anime

Work out

Some of the Tasks are marked as being able to be done every day, while others seem to be one-off events. You look through them, trying to think of what to do. After all, it’s still Saturday morning, and you don’t have any upcoming assignments to stress over.