I know
Don't they know the English academic year is broken into three terms, so the correct word is actually trimester? Fuckwits.
(LongJohnBaldry, Wed 30 Jun 2010, 13:25, 1 reply, 16 years ago)

Yes, but
the three term (trimester) system has been Americanised into a 2-semester system.
( K2k6 has a proper job these days, Wed 30 Jun 2010, 13:39, Reply)

*facepalms*
WHY? What was wrong with the system we had?

IN MY DAY...(long letter of indignation to the Torygraph with multiple uses of the phrases "'twas ever thus" and "political correctness gone mad.")
(LongJohnBaldry, Wed 30 Jun 2010, 13:41, Reply)

Nothing was wrong with it
Bugger all. Nada.

But some daft bastards decided to change the system, to bring it in line with the American system. Which, for some unknown reason, was perceived as being superior.

Which it clearly isn't.
( K2k6 has a proper job these days, Wed 30 Jun 2010, 13:44, Reply)

As a PhD Student*
I'm fucking glad I'm doing it through the British system rather than the American one.

*_{Unwashed, tax-dodging layabout}
(LongJohnBaldry, Wed 30 Jun 2010, 13:45, Reply)