I was wondering how J-Term works for language students. I read somewhere that they try to cram in a semester worth of work in four weeks. If I’m a language student during J-Term will I get any time at all? Do I only take language classes or do I choose one other class like everyone else? Will it be really stressful?
My daughter started Italian as a freshman last year which means she was in Italian for her J term class. It was fine, she enjoyed it. The class wasn’t hard or stressful, steady work yes but nothing that seemed cumbersome in any way. By the way, students take only one J term class… they can sign up for workshops but are enrolled in only one official class for credit.
Hey,
I’m a current Midd student, and did Chinese over J-term last year. Chinese is noted to be one of the most rigorous languages for J-term. Absolutely loved it. You learn at about double the pace as during regular semester, and have class for a few hours every day. In Chinese, it’s 3 hours in class and then about the same amount of hours of studying per night in order to fully take advantage of the program and really learn. But you don’t learn an entire semester’'s worth. That’s just impossible imo.