Trimesters and summer internships?

jack63
Sat, 12 Jul 2014 23:17:04 +0000

I’ve never seen an internship that would potentially exclude a Carleton student because of the late end date in either industry, government, or academia.

10 - 15 years ago there was talk at Carleton about abandoning the tri-mester system for a semester system. I think Carleton students, parents, and alumni would be crazy to let this happen. I agree with the advantages previously mentioned in this thread. Another major benefit of the tri-mester system is that it gives the students a better education. For example, you can focus on your 2 or 3 finals. In a semester system you’d be focused on 4 or 5 finals.

Also, in a tri-mester system, it feels like the students are in school longer and have greater access to faculty. For example, at University of Michigan. Class would run from Early September to Early Decemeber, and you were suppose to have finals until Dec. 21st or 22nd. This rarely happened. Profs at Umich would just put the final on the last day of class in early December. Also, in a semester system, often a prof. would take a week off from class without having it really effect the flow of the class. All of this just made it seem like the semester system limited student’s access to profs.