Word: breaking
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Dates: during 2010-2019
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...Jenkins, the head teaching fellow for the popular “Lit and Sex” course English 154, says the loss of holiday break before exams was “really felt” by upperclassmen accustomed to the old schedule...
Under the old schedule, many final projects and papers were due after the long winter break, and students only had a week of intersession between semesters. And impending exams and deadlines loomed during winter break...
...were getting a lot of work out of the way sooner, [with] a bigger reward at the end,” Romeo P. Alexander ’11 says. “If anything, last year was worse because professors assigned a ton of homework during Christmas break...
While the University sets the start and end dates of the academic calendar, College administrators say they are unsure whether they have the power to rearrange vacation days, such as creating a fall break or extending Thanksgiving break...
...come out strong in the second,” senior Randi Griffin said. “At that point in the game, it could have gone either way. If they had gotten a lucky break or gotten a goal or something, they would be so pumped, because for them the season was really on the line...