[NU Sports] FW: Buckeyes to semester system

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Jim's right that you were always taking exams, assuming you took courses
that had exams, but the good part was you got rid of courses you didn't
like quickly and you took quite a few more classes total than anyone on the
semester system.  If you were able to pick classes you enjoyed, after
distribution requirements, then there were that many more classes to
enjoy.  The late September start/June finish sucked, and I never understood
why it was, but overall I preferred quarters.
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On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 1:57 PM, Jim Bendat <inaugurationbook at yahoo.com>wrote:

> The main thing I remember about the quarter system was that you're always
> taking exams. You finish finals, then you're taking midterms again just a
> few weeks later.
>
> Jim
>
> On May 13, 2012, at 10:50 AM, hakirsch at aol.com wrote:
>
> > Boy do I agree with Scott about the dis advantage of obtaining a  summer
> job.  They were all taken by mid June.   However I'm told it's very hard to
> make the switch. Professors need to change their courses to gear for 18
> weeks vs 12. It might be easy for a year of physics or calculus but not for
> a one quarter course.   Their calender of actually teaching classes changes
> and would likely need their approval (or union).
> > There are a bunch of other issues that need to be dealt with.  Obviously
> schools do it, but not without a bunch of dislocations (By the way,my dad
> ,who was an OSU grad in the 30's and a Chemistry major,used to tell me how
> much harder he thought the quarter system was,but that it instilled good
> academic discipline)
> >
> > Harry
> > Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: "Scott Zeller, M.D." <scottzel at gmail.com>
> > Sender: nwu-sports-bounces at tssi.com
> > Date: Sun, 13 May 2012 10:35:14
> > To: Northwestern Wildcats (nwu-sports at tssi.com)<nwu-sports at tssi.com>
> > Subject: Re: [NU Sports] FW: Buckeyes to semester system
> >
> > Would NU ever consider changing from the quarter system? I remember it
> > being a drag getting out so late in the year that all the good summer
> jobs
> > were long gone, and then being home alone for a few weeks at the end of
> > summer when all my friends were already back at their own schools.
> >
> > On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 4:42 AM, Weinbaum, Willie
> > <Willie.Weinbaum at espn.com>wrote:
> >
> >>
> >>
> http://www.cleveland.com/osu/index.ssf/2012/05/ohio_states_move_to_semesters.html
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