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[A. J. Raffles]

Who's St Helen? St Helen, patron saint of archaeologists, difficult marriages and divorced people?

By the way, there is no such thing as a spring semester.

[blastradius14]

Originally posted by A. J. Raffles@Oct 16 2005, 04:35 AM
By the way, there is no such thing as a spring semester.

Yeah, its just the end of the winter semester. That way summer can start, and you can go to college in the Fall, during the FALL SEMESTER.

Because you can actually go to college during the winter semester, it is not logical to go after that. Therefore, there is no intelligent spring semester. Of course, I am only thinking of the U.S. and have no idea about other countries.

Yes, Raffles you are paranoid :bleh:

[A. J. Raffles]

Originally posted by blastradius14+Oct 16 2005, 03:05 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (blastradius14 @ Oct 16 2005, 03:05 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin-A. J. Raffles@Oct 16 2005, 04:35 AM
By the way, there is no such thing as a spring semester.

Yeah, its just the end of the winter semester. That way summer can start, and you can go to college in the Fall, during the FALL SEMESTER.

Because you can actually go to college during the winter semester, it is not logical to go after that. Therefore, there is no intelligent spring semester. Of course, I am only thinking of the U.S. and have no idea about other countries.

Yes, Raffles you are paranoid :bleh: [/b][/quote]
Ah, but you're forgetting that in some countries you don't have semesters to begin with, so there can be no such thing as a "spring semester", obviously. Anyway, I KNOW I'm paranoid, so there's no need for you to keep telling me, Mrs Holton.:bleh: Oh, and Happy Birthday!

By the way, a friend of mine squealed with delight when she spotted Sebatianos' card on my desk this afternoon. For one horrible second I thought she was going to reveal herself as Danny252, but it turns out that she'd been working for a bank (I think) in Slovenia for a couple of months and absolutely loved it. Slovenia, that is, not the bank.

[Danny252]

LOL, hats.. uh.. not so funny, infact :blink:
Im expecting mail any day now :P

[taikara]

Originally posted by A. J. Raffles@Oct 16 2005, 09:35 AM
By the way, there is no such thing as a spring semester.

Not true!

I had a spring semester at Washington and Lee University... we had 12 week long fall and winter semesters, and then a 6 week spring semester in which we took less classes, but twice as often.

Okay, maybe not at Oxford, but they do in fact exist!

[DeathDude]

Oh yes there are spring semesters, and summer one toos heres, had to take one last year for a class only lasted through may, but technically called a spring course, that's the time when the college prob gets most of it's money they love to overcharge ya like terribly on the courses they offer, *remembers 400 some for course not including books <_<

[A. J. Raffles]

Originally posted by taikara+Oct 17 2005, 11:39 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (taikara @ Oct 17 2005, 11:39 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin-A. J. Raffles@Oct 16 2005, 09:35 AM
By the way, there is no such thing as a spring semester.

Not true!

I had a spring semester at Washington and Lee University... we had 12 week long fall and winter semesters, and then a 6 week spring semester in which we took less classes, but twice as often.

Okay, maybe not at Oxford, but they do in fact exist! [/b][/quote]
All right, all right! *hides head in shame at utter lack of knowledge about US universities*

We have Michaelmas, Hilary and Trinity, and I believe you can call them autumn term, winter term and summer term as well. No spring semester, though...

[Sebatianos]

Originally posted by A. J. Raffles@Oct 17 2005, 12:32 AM
By the way, a friend of mine squealed with delight when she spotted Sebatianos' card on my desk this afternoon. For one horrible second I thought she was going to reveal herself as Danny252, but it turns out that she'd been working for a bank (I think) in Slovenia for a couple of months and absolutely loved it. Slovenia, that is, not the bank.

I'm glad to hear that... and although I'm not 100% sure, but I think our banks wouldn't let just aout anybody to work for them (sorry Danny252, maybe you'll make a wonderful banker someday, but I doubt you're old enough to be one already).

BTW - Which bank did she work for?

[A. J. Raffles]

Can't remember, but I'll ask her when I see her this afternoon.

[Fruit Pie Jones]

I was just certain that Raffles was going to point out that the Latin root of semester means "six months," so the concept of a "spring semester" is fundamentally flawed, because spring doesn't last for six months no matter where you live. Although I'm somewhat disappointed, I recognize that this is prescriptivism taken to an unrealistic extreme, so perhaps I should hold Raffles in higher regard for not doing such a thing, regardles of how tempted she may have been. :bleh: