Ours it divided into semesters.. although they do technically have two sessions in one semester. However, the final grades are still calculated by semesters.

I've always heard of other schools doing it but never actually knew one that did.

we have semesters and we also have like 1st half of semesters and second half of semesters so some class are only half.

I had trimesters when I was in high school. Now it's back to semesters.

We just have regular spring and fall semesters, but in the summer, they do three 3-week long mini-mesters.

Nope we are on semesters. But of course that doesn't really include the three summer sessions.

At University of Michigan, we have fall semester from September to December, winter semester from January to April and then split the rest of the time into two semesters (summer half and spring half) with spring half from May to June and summer half from July to August. One can take classes in just spring half or summer half or take a class through both summer and spring half. So, we are labeled as trimester.

A lot of California schools work on the quarter system. Mostly the "UC" universities and some Cal State schools. Most of the junior colleges are on semester.I prefer quarter over semester, because it allows one to have more opportunities for more classes. Ironically our 'oddball' school, UC Berkeley, is one of the only ones on semester.

I like quarters a lot because I have fewer classes to keep up with at one time and they're only ten weeks long. By the time I start getting tired of a class, it's usually almost over.

I hate how some of my frineds are on trimesters and others are on quarters- its so hard to hang out over our different breaks!

IUSB has semesters but I would like trimesters better. We had trimesters in high school and I loved it because by the time I was tired of a teacher or the people in my class it was time to move on! It was great!

Yea, I would say that the only downside is how we have different breaks than the majority of other schools and we start and end at different times.

We have two semesters, but we also have a J-term or winterterm during the month of January. It's kind of a nice break from "real" classes. People do all sorts of things like internships, or fun classes like belly dancing. It's overall been a good experience for me.

we have two semesters

i know many other schools outside the US that have three semesters

last year i went to the university of denver and they are on quarters.

i think that its an ivy league thing and the schools that follow the system are following the ivy league system

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like semi as in half or semester.

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IU has a fall and spring semester and 2 summer sessions.  They don't break the spring and fall semesters into halves at all.

I did have trimesters in high school, though.  I think its very stressful, though you can take more classes which is good in theory, I guess.

We've always had 2 semesters

I almost got suckered into doing a Maymester.

i actually did, and maymester sucks!

What is a maymester?

Not in Texas Tech