<p>It’s easier to have a three day schedule or a two day schedule with a break in the middle.</p>
<p>There are three basic class schedules. There are MWF (Monday, Wednesday, Friday) classes that meet for 50 minutes per day. There are TTH (Tuesday, Thursday) classes that meet for 75 minutes per day. There are seminars, which meet one day of the week for 3+ hours. Other kinds of schedules, like MW, are idiosyncratically available, especially for first-year students.</p>
<p>Any student could choose to only have classes on Tuesday and Thursday, and thus have four day weekends with a break on Wednesday. However, for most students, the schedules of the classes that they want to take don’t miraculously align into four day weekends. For my next semester, I recently had to choose not to take 3 TTH classes and a Wednesday seminar because I want to begin studying Japanese, and the classes are only available on a MWF schedule. Currently, I’m taking 2 MWF classes, a Monday seminar, and a Friday seminar, which means that my Tuesdays and Thursdays are totally free.</p>