semester
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The liberal-arts college has roughly 2,000 undergraduates, and some of them take multiple computer-science courses each semester.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 19, 2026
For students at UC Riverside, the start of fall semester means picking up their class syllabus, catching up with friends and snapping selfies with the adorable wild donkeys that roam around the school.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026
Unlike most of the alleged assailants, Doe left college after what Giuffra has described as a “horrifying” semester in which she had to attend classes “where she saw these guys on a fairly regular basis.”
From Salon ● Oct. 2, 2026
Kavya Krishnamurthy, from the spring 2021 semester, responded to a University of Chicago prompt about her archnemesis by describing a Mountain School chicken at war with her to protect its eggs.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026
The first semester, in addition to the book list, I had this class called Intro to Wall Street that required me to pick up the New York Times and Wall Street Journal every day.
From "It’s Kind of a Funny Story" by Ned Vizzini
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Upon appeal, Shanklin’s two-semester suspension from school and campus activities was lessened to four semesters of probation during which he could remain on campus.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026
For two semesters, I dressed up to teach from my living room laptop, receiving excellent evaluations.
From Salon ● Aug. 24, 2026
Instead of taking on summer internships or job-shadowing opportunities between semesters, he worked a retail gig to pay for college.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 4, 2026
They started Neros when Hichwa, who dropped out of college after three semesters, was 21, and Monroe-Anderson was 19.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026
He talked about majors, semesters, units, and many other things I did not understand.
From "Breaking Through" by Francisco Jiménez
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