Course of Study · Form ES-4

The Core Earth Curriculum

Twelve weeks of practical planetary instruction, delivered in the order in which Earth generally presents its difficulties. Each week is one session, one topic, and one honest look at how life here actually operates.

  1. Week 1

    Arrival and Orientation

    Confirming your location, reviewing oxygen, and accepting that Earth is not a temporary inconvenience.

  2. Week 2

    Gravity and Other Non-Negotiables

    Understanding physical limits, bodily maintenance, sleep, weather, and why roofs should not be used as launch platforms.

  3. Week 3

    Food, Water, and Personal Maintenance

    Feeding yourself, hydration, hygiene, laundry, and other recurring systems no one appears to have automated.

  4. Week 4

    Time

    Calendars, appointments, deadlines, seasons, aging, and the irreversible nature of “five more minutes.”

  5. Week 5

    Money and Resources

    Earning, spending, saving, borrowing, paying bills, and why the bank does not accept good intentions.

  6. Week 6

    Feelings

    Identifying them, expressing them, surviving them, and recognizing that other Earth residents also possess them.

  7. Week 7

    Families

    Understanding inherited customs, contradictory instructions, shared bathrooms, loyalty, boundaries, and holiday gatherings.

  8. Week 8

    Work and Contribution

    Employment, competence, meetings, teamwork, responsibility, and when not to use “Reply All.”

  9. Week 9

    Community

    Neighbors, public spaces, shopping carts, noise, cooperation, and the radical concept that other people live here too.

  10. Week 10

    Culture and Customs

    Rules, language, manners, ceremonies, disagreement, and why Earth has more than one way of doing nearly everything.

  11. Week 11

    Consequences

    Cause, effect, accountability, apology, repair, and the limited legal authority of personal preference.

  12. Week 12

    Planetary Stewardship

    Caring for Earth, supporting others, leaving places better than you found them, and preparing for supervised graduation.