<p>Any opinions regarding their 10 week quarters vs 2 semesters?</p>
<p>Those on quarters don’t have enough time to have an opinion. :)</p>
<p>Nicely put idad!</p>
<p>I don’t know how it is today, but about 40 years ago (different schools, of course) after going from 2 years of 10 week quarters to 16 week semesters it felt like slow motion. After four weeks you were primed for midterms and nothing happened. I liked the semesters better, though, and the school with the quarter system eventually changed to semesters. However, Chicago seems to be a different bird and S likes it just fine, no complaints.</p>
<p>I personally prefer the two-term school year.</p>
<p>I enjoy the breath of material I get to experience during my years here; the quarter system helps to cool the ‘I want to take every class they offer’ fetish that all U-Chicago kids seem to have. </p>
<p>There are a few negative side effects:
-my breaks don’t coincide with those of my friends
-I enter the summer break late, so it’s harder to find a job</p>
<p>Our Chicago tour guide liked that fact that when you were on vacation you were between terms, so there was no guilt feeling about homework you weren’t doing.</p>
<p>Good point. I was thinking about the same thing.</p>
<p>Does it really affect internships that much?
also, how much does it coincide with summer breaks, that is, of other colleges</p>
<p>i think at uchicago we get out and start later than colleges on semesters</p>
<p>any opinions on that?</p>
<p>Personally, I wish the academic year didn’t have to be so screwed up (September 29 or so to June 12 or so). But I don’t think there’s really a good alternative within the quarter system.</p>
<p>I guess the quarter system is just meh. It has advantages and disadvantages, and it’s really hard to say if one system is better than the other. It might not even be more stressful than a semester system, since we’re only taking four classes at a time.</p>