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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]UK universities are mostly on what the US calls a trimester system. The terms are shoter than a US semester, and usually are called Michaelmas, Christmas, and Easter.

Except at Oxbridge, UK universities are much more sink or swim than a US SLAC might be. It is up to the student to get academic help, to find the prof, and so on. Fine for a self-starter but maybe not so well suited for a kid who is used to a lot of hand holding. [/quote]

No one outside of possibly Oxbridge and maybe movies talks of michaelmas term. Or Christmas and Easter - though those are what the breaks are called. So much misinformation here from people who have a tiny experience of the UK and think it applies everywhere.[/quote]

So much easier to quibble about minor details than to comment in a way helpful to OP…[/quote]

+ 1 and it's Michaelmas. Capitalized. [/quote]

It’s a word that no one uses. Ever. And even my phone didn’t recognize it, hence the lack of capital M which unsurprisingly I couldn’t be bothered to change after spending more effort than I should to get my phone to accept an obscure word no one uses.[/quote]

Again, lots in the Commonwealth do. But on point that you are referring to them as no one. [/quote]

“In the commonwealth”???? So bizarre. We are taking about Britain here.[/quote]

We used Michaelmas at the LSE[/quote]

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