<p>Does anyone know why the UC system starts so much later than everywhere else?</p>
<p>everyone on quarter system starts around mid to late september. berkeley is on semester and they started a like 2 weeks ago.</p>
<p>yeah it pretty much sucks… but the one positive is our long breaks line up with the end of finals so our breaks are completely stress and work free 
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<p>so ha semester system!</p>
<p>Also, the fact that being a full-time student in a quarter system tends to stress students out more. (For those that don’t know, quarter semester means everything is compressed into 2-month long courses)</p>
<p>I like the quarter system because I have a short attention span and want something new after 2 months.</p>
<p>yeah i was wondering about it too…</p>
<p>i think ucla starts really late too</p>
<p>UCLA starts a little earlier than us. </p>
<p>But, still, its pretty late.</p>
<p>i think ucla starts the 22nd too. i think everywhere beside berkeley does?</p>
<p>Ohio State: September 21 ([Academic</a> Calendar - University Registrar - The Ohio State University](<a href=“http://registrar.osu.edu/staff/bigcal.asp]Academic”>Academic Calendar - University Registrar - The Ohio State University))</p>
<p>Stanford: September 26 ([Office</a> of the University Registrar - Stanford Academic Calendar, 2011-12 | Student Affairs](<a href=“http://studentaffairs.stanford.edu/registrar/academic-calendar-1112]Office”>http://studentaffairs.stanford.edu/registrar/academic-calendar-1112))</p>
<p>im sure there’s more…i found a bunch of CCs that start in October (they call it “flex start” or something)</p>
<p>In the UC system, Berkeley and Merced are on a semester system, while all other campuses are on a quarter system, meaning school starts on the twenty second.</p>
<p>In the UC system, Berkeley and Merced are on a semester system, while all other campuses are on a quarter system, and school starts on the twenty second.</p>