During the same period, teaching loads for an overwhelming number of our professors were reduced from four courses a semester to three, and then to two courses per semester.

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The academic year in the Czech Republic is divided into two semesters: winter semester and summer semester.

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Then, last week, two months into a semester of study abroad in Spain, she learned her cancer had returned.

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To demonstrate this phenomenon, the researchers designed a classic two-by-two experiment in which students imagined choosing courses for the following semester and were told them that the courses would (or would not) count towards their major so that it was an important (or unimportant) decision.

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Junior year, I worked part-time at a local PR firm, while simultaneously holding down two waitressing jobs to try to pay off my credit card debt from a semester spent in London.

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In a typical semester, about a dozen Cornell faculty members and graduate students make the two hour round trip to teach the courses, aided by 40-50 undergraduate teaching assistants.

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They can participate for a semester or their entire college career in the Center, which the university has been testing out for two years or so in a pilot.

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