<p>Hi, </p>
<p>So I am planning on taking summer courses. But there seems to be quite a few different types of summer semester. So what is the difference between May sessions, 10-week sessions and 13-week sessions? Thanks.</p>
<p>For 2012, the May session began May 21st and ended June 8th, The 10-week session began June 11th and ended August 17th. The 13-week would have began May 21st and ended around August 23. </p>
<p>I was going to take summer classes this year, but ended up going to the community college so this answer may not be completely accurate. Hopefully someone will confirm this.</p>
<p>You might be able to find the exact dates on the U of M’s calender found here:
[Academic</a> calendars](<a href=“http://onestop.umn.edu/calendars/]Academic”>http://onestop.umn.edu/calendars/)</p>
<p>^ That’s right. I took a May class this year and two 8-week classes.</p>
<p>I don’t recommend May classes at all. They only meet for three weeks, but for ** five hours EVERY day,** in the same room. It’s just awfully redundant and I’ll never do it again. </p>
<p>8-week classes are either Tuesday/Thursday (and meet for 2 1/2 hours) or Mon/Wed/Fri (and meet for 1 hour 55 mins). In general, you have 3-4 days worth of “regular semester” homework every night, and it’s a lot of work.</p>
<p>Which class did you take during the May session? I was considering taking an Anthropology one this last summer, but chickened out at the last second.</p>
<p>I took PSTL 1112, “Nature in the City” for the bio with lab requirement. Not an interesting class to me at all. </p>
<p>I would really advise against May classes unless you’re unemployed, constantly bored, from the Twin Cities, and are ** super ** passionate about and willing to eat/sleep/breathe the topic of the class for 3 weeks.</p>
<p>I live in Texas, and was annoyed to know that when I could’ve gone home for a month to see my girlfriend and friends, I was up in Minneapolis on the deserted U of M campus (There is virtually no one on campus and nothing going on during may session) devoting my life to a class that I hated.</p>