Caitlin Rose

Growing up in Nashville, especially in a music business family, means growing up with knowledge that seems like common sense until later in life when you realize people spend thousands of dollars a semester trying to learn or pretending to learn while looking for some intern job on music row.

American Musician

Jordan Larson

Nebraska would like me to graduate in December and start college second semester so I can go through spring practice with them. But I want to stay around and be in high school. Your senior year is a once-in-a-lifetime thing, and I don't want to cut that experience short.

American Athlete

Carl Hart

My research has taught me many important lessons, but perhaps none more important than this: drug effects, like semesters, are predictable; police interactions with black people are not.

American Educator

Rush Limbaugh

The idea of going back to college scares me, and I didn't even go. I went to college for one year, two semesters. If you add up the total time, I probably didn't even go one semester.

American Entertainer

Scott Michael Foster

I only went to college for one semester, community college outside of Dallas. I got to the end of that and said, 'I'm not doing this anymore,' and moved to L.A. and landed a job.

American Actor

Alice McDermott

At the beginning of every semester, I ask my graduate students whether there is something I should read that will help me understand their work.

American Writer

Ryan Higa

I was doing nuclear med I didn't like it. My first semester I switched to film major. YouTube helped make that decision for me.

American Comedian

Joe Biden

When my first semester grades came out, my mom and dad told me I wouldn't be playing football.

American President

Jessica Szohr

So basically, I graduated high school a semester early.

American Actress

Conrad Hall

My first semester, I got a D in creative writing.

American Artist

A semester marks progress and is a structured timeframe to complete courses or credits.

Academic Cycles

Students often select new classes at the beginning of each semester.

Schedule Planning

The winter, or fall, semester typically has a long break for holidays.

Holiday Interruption

Not all semesters are exactly six months; durations can vary slightly by institution.

Varied Length

Transferring between colleges may require adapting to different semester schedules.

Transfer Adjustments

Between semesters, there's usually a break period not counted in the six months.

Semester Break

 especially youth mental health. Some semesters I used all of those rest days to the fullest. Others, I didn't need any at all. But the fact that they were always an option is what kept me a happy, healthy and successful student. Now I'm using those skills that I learned as a kid to help other students with mental health challenges.

Why students should have...

 to help them finish their semester or their year without missing a beat. Those students are now productive assets in our community, and this is what our communities, our businesses and our institutions need to get ready for now. The time is now.

Climate change will...

 Out of sheer boredom, I asked to be switched into another class. The next semester, I joined advanced English. We read two novels and wrote two book reports that semester. The drastic difference and rigor between these two English classes

How to inspire every...

 this ascent and to create the tools and infrastructure that will enable students to build it in one semester. And this is the great team that helped us make it happen. The trick was to decompose the computer's construction

Shimon Schocken: The...

 is exams. In the end, if we test everyone by hand in exams, it's kind of hard to get the curricula changed to a point where they can use computers during the semesters. And one of the reasons it's so important --

Conrad Wolfram: Teaching...

 i went to college to be a writer my last semester senior year i took a photo class just kind of as a joke or as for fun and totally fell in love with it um i like dropped everything else in my life

Documenting Democracy PIPE...

 student who had not talked in class the entire semester who I had said look you got to participate or else you're going to fail came into my office I really didn't know her at all and she said she

Your body language...

 but they were also my friends. So I did. I moved out at the end of the semester. But it wasn't to appease them. It was out of respect for myself. I wasn't going to subject myself to people

Our treatment of HIV has...

 I took school seriously, and for the first time ever in my life, I received an academic award for excellence, and made dean's list from the first semester in high school.

The family I lost in...

 at 21 I was a junior at Wesleyan University I decided to spend a semester