Can you get 15 college credit hours over a summer semester?
Long story short, it depends on you. I would go to a community college and speak with a counselor ASAP. The good news is that many community colleges offer a series of block classes which can be taken in week long formats during the spring semester. You MIGHT be able to get one or two out of the way BEFORE the summer begins! (one during the spring break for sure) As for the summer, most colleges break the summer semester up into two sections. Each section is usually about a 6 week commitment. However, most community colleges like I mentioned before will offer a week long course somewhere in the beginning week of the summer. My advice would be take a week long course over spring break (3 credit hours) Week long course the first week of summer semester (3 credit hours) 2 6 week courses the first block of the summer (6 credit hours) 1 6 week course the second block of the summer (3 credit hours) Similarly, your local community college might offer a week long course the final week of the summer as well. So depending on how you play your cards, you can very easily pull this off! Just know that you will most likely be VERY worn out at the very end of the ordeal! If you are not interested in education itself and just doing this to have it on paper, I would recommend taking easy courses. Get on ratemyprofessors.com and find out who will suit you best. But in my opinion, there is nothing out there more rewarding than a true education! If you like it while you are doing it, consider it an option! College is great!
How long is winter break in college?
As others have said, it depends on your school. They all do it a little differently and should have an Academic Calendar on their website that will list the dates. I have attended a few colleges with semester systems and our breaks often lasted from about the middle of December to the middle of January. Some schools also have a winter term, which is a shorter term, usually about a month long, in which to take one or two classes. The classes in this term would usually be several times a week and for longer class sessions, moving at a faster pace to keep on track with what you would normally learn in a full semester. One of the schools I attended required at least three winter terms, while other schools that have it may only make it optional. Many schools on the quarter system require students to attend three quarters in the year; fall, winter, and spring, with summer being optional. All quarters are the same length, and there is about a three week break between quarters.
Why do teachers give homework on holidays?
Some do, some don’t.Personally, I don’t. My subject isn’t the only one, nor is it the most important one, nor do I think students want to spend their free time, mostly hard-earned, on learning when they should be on break - if anything, they should be learning what interests them and what isn’t mandated by the state.Homework given on holidays could be an observational task. For instance, maybe a history or social studies teacher would ask them to pay attention to their holiday traditions, write them down and analyze them. Why not? Better to do it in the moment than two weeks later. Or perhaps a chemistry teacher would ask them to google what compounds are present in cinnamon, or pine needles, that give it the characteristic smell. Or something of the nature. It would tie learned material to real life situations - probably for facilitating the students’ realization that school education isn’t all abstract, but it builds on real things.It is generally inadvisable to give homework for holidays. Being realistic, it’s highly likely that it won’t be looked at until the final free day, and that the learned material has been forgotten by now. Much in the same way, there’s no point in picking up a new topic right before the holidays start - nothing will be remembered. In short, you’re setting yourself up for disappointment right on the first day, because of course they haven’t done the homework. What’s the point?
Do you get breaks in college?
There are breaks, but they are on different dates at each school. And different schools have different plans for when they are in school...we are on a semester plan (we go to school in August, get done in April) but some schools are on a four-one-four plan. (Sorry, I am not sure how that works. I'm not sure if there are other plans). We have random days we are out of school, like this Monday for Martin Luther King Jr. Day. I think those holidays may differ depending on whether you attend a public or private college. We started college this semester this week, but not everyone did. Some school's nearby started a week before or after us. We get a spring break, a summer break, a whole week off for Thanksgiving, and what felt like a long winter break. I like the schedule a lot better for college. We start before high schoolers, finish before, and I think our breaks are longer. At least they feel longer. Our classes do move faster (depending on how your high school works), but I appreciate the breaks.
What time of day and year do american schools start and finish?
Here in Australia, my school starts at 8:20 and finishes at 3:20. I wake up at 6 am in the dark and cold, and leave around 7:30. It takes 40 mins to school by car in the morning including motorway traffic. In the afternoon I get home from 4:30 - 5:00 depending which way i go home, and if i stay back. I take public transport, a train and a bus, in the afternoon, and that takes me around 1.5 hours to get home. I spend around 6 hours at home awake on a school day, and 7 hours at school. In Australia summer is from December - February, although it is really hot from October to March. Winter is from June - August, but it is cold from April - September. This is in melbourne, australia. It gets around 35º C average in summer and 10º average in winter. We have 4 school terms, term 1, 2, 3 and 4. Our school holidays are from mid december to end january, (summer), 2 weeks off in april (autumn), 3 weeks off from late june to mid july (winter), and 2 weeks off from mid september to mid october (spring) Our school terms average from 8 - 12 weeks, so we have around 40 weeks of school, so around 200 school days over here. We get around 13 - 14 weeks of holidays a year, so that's around 90 - 100 days off school a year. We have normal weekends, school ends Friday afternoon, and starts Monday morning. In my school it is compulsory to do many assignments and homework and a sport, so we spend saturday mornings doing compulsory school sport, and we have 2 trainings per week, so we only have 3 afternoons free. on those 3 afternoons, we spend doing all the homework and staying up late xD Elementary school, we call primary school, and it goes from 8:45 or 9 am - 2:55 or 3 pm I am 14 years old and get around 7 - 8 hours sleep per night. Anyway onto my question, What time of the day do american schools start and finish? When does american schools start and finish during the year. How long are the semesters? How many days average of school? Do americans have more days off than here? When do the american semesters start and finish?