<p>Remember the days of high school, where the bell marked the end and start of class? Well, I remember back then being told that in college, those bells don't exist. </p>
<p>Then I came to college. My campus uses bells. Well, it's more like a buzz, but you get the point. I don't have a problem with it (it's especially nice for those professors who would keep us there for the whole day if it didn't ring ;]), but it was also unexpected.</p>
<p>Most buildings on my campus have them, and the bell rings only for the end of classes, and on the schedule of the most common 50 minute classes (so ever day at 8:35am, 9:40am, 10:45am, 11:50am and so on). There's no bells for most power lectures, though, just the bells that ring halfway through signaling the end of other classes.</p>
<p>So I was wondering if my university is one of the few that does this, or is it actually pretty widespread? Any other thoughts about them?</p>
<p>^Ah yeah, we have two bell towers that go every 15 minutes, too. And when it gets warm out, and then every Sunday I think, someone goes up there and plays the one. :**D It’s really neat.</p>
<p>Bells? That seems strange in college where not every class runs the same length of time. It must be distracting for some students and just a little…I don’t know…sophmoric? Part of the fun of college is being adult enough to manage your own time, to get to class on time without needing a bell signal, and to leave class when the teacher is finished lecturing.</p>
<p>We have a bell tower that goes off every hour. I think it’s more for novelty’s sake though, rather than for anyone trying to use it to keep time.</p>
<p>We have chimes that play every 15 minutes, sometimes in the form of a song. It would be weird to have bells though, especially on a large campus.</p>
<p>With relatively few exceptions all classes start and end at the same time. There could be, for example, 8-9 o’clock classes, 9:15-10:15 classes, 10:30 etc etc. There are very few classes that actually last longer than one “period” and those are usually labs of some sort. That’s how it is here anyway, and I figure it’s about the same everywhere else. We don’t have bells though.</p>
<p>We have all different sorts of time slots…anywhere from on the hour to 9:20-10:35 and such. The only classes we have that are less than an hour are classes like philosophy that meet for 50 minutes three times a week.</p>
<p>That must be a pain to schedule. Nearly all of our classes are 50 minute classes that meet three times a week (MWF) or 75 minute classes that meet twice a week (T/Th).</p>
<p>I’ve attended two schools so far, Wisconsin-Oshkosh and now I’m at Madison.</p>
<p>At my first, school, there were no bells. Here at Madison there are no bells in the classes I’m taking now except in Van Hise, which I find very odd.</p>