im on quarters too, dont start till the last day of sept i think. i hate quarters in college because everyone else is on semesters. so all your friends leave in august and you are stuck with 1 month at home w/ no one around. xmas break is shorter, because you have 10 weeks before xmas and 20 weeks after xmas. and as a result of that, you don't end till mid june when everyone else gets out in may. so you don't take finals until over a month after most people have already been on summer teasing you about how you still have school. boooooo to quarters!