As someone who’s never known anything but semesters, the quarter system (employed by most University of California schools, except Berkeley because it’s special) is pretty mean. Three rounds of finals, and a schedule that keeps you in school from January to June with only a week break. Particularly at this point, a few days from [...]
Maile Arvin blogs here. She is a graduate student in Ethnic Studies living in Southern California. She likes coffee and poems.