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
During the club’s first semester as an official chapter in the spring of 2026, Roth said, he was surprised to see more women than men show up to events.
From Salon ● 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
The Mountain School pioneered the high-school semester program in the 1980s.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026
“That’s the fourth time this semester you’ve forgotten an assignment, Christopher,” she said.
From "Auggie & Me" by R. J. Palacio
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
In the evolving landscape of college basketball, talented freshmen fated to spend two semesters on campus before rushing off to the NBA draft used to be all the rage.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 27, 2026
It’s a habit of creating and destroying that she formed as a student at Claremont High School, where she studied the craft for two semesters, yet fired zero pieces.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 17, 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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