<p>Meanwhile, other students like the idea of extra summer time to earn money in their summer jobs.</p>
<p>I don’t know about that. The UC’s get out quite late in June so these kids are missing out on earnings at the beginning of summer.</p>
<p>I’ve never understood why the UC’s start late/end late…except for the fact that most are on the quarter system and they want the first quarter to end for Christmas. If they started fall when nearly everyone else does (late Aug/Early Sept), then they’d be ending around T’giving and then 2nd qtr would have an odd Winter Break after a few weeks. </p>
<p>Maybe the answer is for the UC’s to follow Berkeley’s lead and be on the semester system. When does Cal start fall?</p>
<p>ahh…just looked it up:
FALL SEMESTER BEGINS
Thursday, August 21 2014</p>