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1. William from Hair Extensions San Diego

July 6th, 2009 8:34 am

I think both formats can be productive. I think it depends heavily on the subject you are teaching. I think some courses need more time then others to properly teach you the material without stressing the students.

2. Doug from Lampen

October 7th, 2009 4:23 am

I agree with William. It´s good to have differences. Some courses have way more stuff to be taught. The list you published here gives a really good overview.

3. Alan from San Diego Homes

October 13th, 2009 3:43 am

The formats are directly proportional to the subjects that are taught. But sometimes its confusing and considering the amount of admissions made I would feel lost inside a university or a community college. It would be nice if we have some universal teaching practices and system, so that students can transfer them to other places.

4. Harry from Gartenleuchten

August 27th, 2010 7:59 am

i wonder if this list is still up to date ?

5. Asuma

September 11th, 2010 12:13 am

I strongly believe that every College/University should be on the semester system. It gives students the time to work, do an internship, join a club, etc. A LOT of people I know have told me that they don’t like the quarter system because its too fast & too confusing. Most (if not all) community colleges are on the semester system; if all Colleges/University students were on the semester system, it make the transition into a 4 year institution MUCH EASIER for transfer students.

6. AR

September 24th, 2010 6:49 pm

Having attended both a UC on quarter (UCLA) and currently attending a CSU on semester (CSULB) , there is no benefit to quarter system (unless you consider keeping the student in a state of artificially inflated stress for an entire academic year, ‘beneficial’).

Quarter system classes, especially science/math/engineering classes, have two to three midterms. This means you will be taking a midterm every two to three weeks (absurd, I know). And this is not counting finals.

Speaking of finals, you have an extra set to look ‘forward’ to each academic year thanks to winter quarter, which doesn’t exist in the semester schools. Having grown up in the semester system, I know that, at least for me, as a child I developed a strong sense of the 5-week cycle for when the stress of midterms and finals would begin and end, thereby allowing a natural flow of stress increasing and decreasing; in quarter get used to this artifically elevated stress being ever-present, even though your rational mind is telling you you are being tested on 1/3 less material. Doesn’t matter, your body still gets stressed out like it is a THIRD (extra) session’s finals on a par with the semesters from your childhood.

Finally, we all grow up on the semester system so it is a cruel twist to have our most important academic stage, college, be on a completely alien calendar from what our bodies and minds have spent their most malleable years getting drilled into them until it is second nature.

To say nothing of the fact that you’re in school until June, while your friends get to celebrate their freedom from school as the rest of the nation goes on long road trips or sees big summer blockbusters on Memorial Day; and that month of vacation you get in September is essentially as most of your friends are on semester, and therefore back in school, leaving you home alone.

Go (stay) semester, and save yourself the needless pain.

7. soldador inverter

July 11th, 2011 8:36 pm

I don’t like the quarter system, I prefer the semester because you have more time to understand the subject, and to internalize what you learn. Al least, it’s what I think about it.
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