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<p>I got off June 10th and school doesn’t start to September 22nd. That is 3.5 months. Plus there were 10 days of spring break. This past winter vacation was from December 11th to January 4th, so that is 3.5 weeks. Thanksgiving was about five days. It all evens out.</p>
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<p>Sometimes it is a disadvantage, but if you start looking early, you can get that internship and beat the rush.</p>
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<p>If the fall term lasts 15 weeks than it’s not a quarter school.</p>
<p>I would infinitely prefer the semester system…mainly because that is how my study schedule operates. The quarter system allows for less procrastination in a course, and the tests are generally more frequent because final exams come up a lot quicker. Plus, I’d much rather have most of May off (semester system) rather than most of September off (quarter system).</p>
<p>Idk yet because I haven’t started college, but I think I’ll like the quarter system because I like change and its good switching classes around and I also like working at a fast pace. Also I really don’t like staying home so I don’t mind if there are shorter breaks. Most of my hs life was done in trimesters which is practically like the quarter system (if you don’t take summer school) and I liked it a lot. Then we switched to semester and the year seemed so slow.</p>
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<p>Um…nobody ever said anything about a term lasting 15 weeks! I said that my friends start one week after me. It’s true. I started August 31 last year, and they started September 7.</p>
<p>Each quarter is 11 weeks.</p>
<p>So the fall quarter ends in mid November? And winter break is right in the middle of the quarter? The strange thing is that just about every other quarter school I’ve seen has exactly the same schedule.</p>
<p>I know that’s how RIT is…winter break is in the middle of the second quarter.</p>
<p>My school is on a 14 week semester system, in which we normally take 4 to 5 classes, but the school I am taking summer classes at (which also happens to be the school my brother goes to) is on a 7 week quarter system, in which they normally take 3 classes. </p>
<p>I don’t really like the quarter system. I am class all the time, and I feel like I’m not learning anything. I never have time to read the textbooks for either class because I don’t have time. Between being in class all day, and having problem sets due usually the next class, as well as 2 labs there just isn’t time to actually learn anything. I feel like I’m just faking my way through both classes. I guess I shouldn’t complain though, because it looks like I am going to get As in both classes.</p>
<p>At my school during the year I feel like I am actually learning things. I really concern myself with understanding theory rather than just being able to do problems and plug and chug. However, I have a lot more free time, because I’m not in class all the time, and we usually have a week to do assignments. It also seems like we cover more material.</p>
<p>My brother and I took similar classes this year. It sounded like his calc 4 class was supposed to be the equivalent of my vector calculus class, but when we talked during the year, he did not cover a bunch of the stuff I did, which I would consider pretty basic stuff in this class. Stuff like line integrals and green and stokes theorem. </p>
<p>In my experience it seems as though the quarter system just doesn’t work.</p>