I don't get spring break... Anyone else?

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<p>They cancel classes for a week, but we have to attend a certain amount of presentations/seminar type things. It's pretty much just listening to lectures for several hours...</p>

<p>Ugh. Before I started I was told that this was the spring break and we could choose if we wanted to attend the programs or not. So I guess I'm out of a few thousand dollars I put towards a trip... that's nice.</p>

<p>Sorry. this is more of a rant than anything else. But I am wondering if anyone else has to suffer through this? </p>

<p>EDIT: Mar. 19-25 Spring Break, No Classes–Offices Open</p>

<p>That's what the academic calendar says as well, LOL. This is such BS.</p>

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<p>No…I’ve never heard of something like that.</p>

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<p>Are you in an honors program or some such thing?</p>

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<p>My school would never require something like that.</p>

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<p>That is really weird. I have never heard of a school doing that.</p>

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<p>What school is this? I know that a lot of for-profit schools only take two weeks off per year, because they draw down financial aid disbursements based on hours of attendance by each student, so they don’t want hours to stop or the cash wouldn’t come in as quickly and continuously. If you are at a for-profit, it’s literally all about the money and NOT so much about the education…that’s just a happy by-product!</p>

<p>If you are not at a for-profit, does your school give you a longer winter break? Or do you get out sooner than most schools at the end of the academic year? That may be the trade-off.</p>

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<p>I can’t be certain, but I would anticipate riots if this happened at my school.</p>

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<p>Some private colleges have mandatory winter break programs (e.g. Colby); I am not too surprised to hear of something similar for spring break.</p>

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<p>What happens if you don’t attend?</p>

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<p>Okay well, I just got a reply to my e-mail. We have a few days of the seminars and stuff right before spring break. </p>

<p>Yay relief.</p>

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<p>It comes down to your major… From my experience, some graduate programs void spring break and other federal holidays (with the exception of Thanksgiving and Xmas) but these programs clearly mark themselves as year round. In some places in Europe, the week off in the spring is known as a “study break” I’d imagine some students (mostly ungrads) would raise tyranny if that became the case. </p>

<p>I think some Universities would if they could do away with spring break all together (I’m sure the idea has been pitched somewhere in the US) but staff wan’t an ideal time off to. One of the few full time jobs that give a annual vacation as such.</p>

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Most staff is actually on campus and working over breaks. It’s only the students and direct student services (e.g. dining halls) that get time off.</p>

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It’s not just spring break. German college students don’t get “breaks” at all. Instead the year is divided into terms with lectures and terms without lectures. Big papers and cumulative exams (gasp) are often due at the end of a lecture-free period.</p>

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<p>We have an actual spring break of course, but according to the syllabi for the classes I’m in , our midterms are right afterwards. :confused: So no real ‘break’.</p>

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<p>True, in some places, but its more of a case by case. Where I went (throughout the semesters) some of the more down to earth instructors I have would talk about their plans to “hit the road” after the last class on the Friday before. At the community college I went to, the whole campus shut down except for the business office.</p>

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<p>My uni has two 12 week semesters, with a month off at Christmas, a month off at Easter, and usually there is a “reading week” in each semester (but this is decided by different departments and some lecturers ignore reading week).</p>

<p>After Easter is the exam period, which lasts a month but has no class.</p>