Pro/Con: The Quarter System
PRO
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Conversational gold mine at family reunions
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4 is a nice round number, not like that confusing 2
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When you get back home for the summer your friends already have plenty of great stories to tell you about fun stuff you missed
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Way less hectic than the once-popular dime system
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Frequent midterm drama helps to advance the plot and cuts down on boring character development episodes
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Cute little coincidence of being on the quarter system while experiencing a quarter-life crisis
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Fantastic ad revenue from sponsorship by the American Quarter Horse Association
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Internships are harder to get, so when you do get a job you know they are really desperate for someone to file paperwork for them
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10 weeks is just short enough so that you don’t have to become “regular friends” with your one kinda weird class friend
CON
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Requires 50% more teachers
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Giving other schools a head start on the school year looks pretty cocky when we always wind up losing the race by a month
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Students who are stripping their way through college miss out on the “money months” of May and June
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Ability to take a greater variety of classes and pursue diverse interests puts too much pressure on students to be multidimensional and interesting
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Being on the quarter system makes you different, and you know what they do back home to people who are different…
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The word “semesters” is only one letter addition and five letter subtractions away from the word “semen.” Comedy websites at normal schools probably milk that for laughs!
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Discussion of quarters vs. semesters distracts from the issue that our current president is a Muslim communist who was born in Kenya
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Stanford operates on the quarter system, which means you’ll have to see that smug douche Carson for your entire summer every year. I don’t even get what the big deal is with Stanford anyway; I mean, within the top 15 universities there’s not much separating any of them. Stanford. Just say that name out loud; it sounds so dumb. How did that kid even get in? Probably a legacy. No, definitely a legacy. I didn’t even want to go there anyway; I’m more of a cold weather person. Whatever.