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Easter holidays 2012-2013

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  • 22-07-2012 5:08pm
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    Magnolia27
    Registered Users Posts: 15 ✭


    Hi! I would like to know whether there are fixed Easter holidays at UCD in 2013? I read that there is a fieldwork/study period from 11 March-24 March. Is this a free period? Any insights would be greatly appreciated, thanks!


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    WeeBushy
    Registered Users Posts: 3,572 ✭✭✭WeeBushy


    They are the Easter holidays. Well, holidays for anyone who doesn't have fieldwork/study to do!


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    Magnolia27
    Registered Users Posts: 15 ✭Magnolia27


    WeeBushy wrote: »
    They are the Easter holidays. Well, holidays for anyone who doesn't have fieldwork/study to do!

    Wonderful, thank you!


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    Muir
    Registered Users Posts: 948 ✭✭✭Muir


    We also get Good Friday & Easter Monday off. Our 2 weeks off are always around St. Patrick's Day, roughly halfway through the semester, rather than actually at Easter.


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    WeeBushy
    Registered Users Posts: 3,572 ✭✭✭WeeBushy


    They used to be dependant on when Easter was, before UCD went with semesterisation, which sometimes left only a couple of weeks back in college before being off again for exams. Much better this way.

    A weeks break in the first semester and a weeks break in the second might better, I always thought the second semester was more fragmented than the first. Although seeing as its a fieldwork break as well, those kind of things often need more than a week so it mightn't work in practice.


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    Raphael
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,880 ✭✭✭Raphael


    It generally wouldn't, for exactly that reason. Also, in 3rd and 4th year of my course (Physics) that break as a chance to get seriously stuck into lab work, so having the 2 weeks there when you know what you ahve to get done and when was a blessing - if it was one and one a lot of people would probably just waste the semester 1 week off.


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