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...don’t like the new calendar,” Zerner says. “I think everything is extremely rushed, and students don’t really have enough time to absorb whatever the course was about...
...David J. Malan ’99, who teaches the popular course Computer Science 50, says he adjusted his lesson plans and assignment due dates to reflect the calendar changes. Students were asked to submit final project proposals—which range from coding Google Android or iPhone applications, to designing Web sites—before Thanksgiving, or two weeks earlier than in past years...
Freshmen, on the other hand, had a “very easy time” with the new calendar, Jenkins says, as it is “the only calendar they’ve known...
Harris adds that he felt many of the concerns students raised may have been unfairly attributed to the calendar changes and that part of the problem lies in work habits, such as procrastination...
While the University sets the start and end dates of the academic calendar, College administrators say they are unsure whether they have the power to rearrange vacation days, such as creating a fall break or extending Thanksgiving break...