Hollins has a January Term, AKA Short Term or J-term, where students either stay on campus and take a seminar class (stuff like Stage Makeup, Bookbinding, British Gothic Cinema… I took Contract Bridge - yes, the card game - my first year), do an independent study, an internship, go on a trip (NYC for the theater or Munich or Greece), or work on thesis.
Currently, I’m on campus doing my thesis (that screenplay). It’s been going ok, although yesterday I only turned in six pages (thanks to writer’s block and being tired of it). But I’m a third of the way there, and I have the spring to work on it as well. But only having the thesis and work M-Th afternoons… I’ve watched a LOT of TV and goofed off. TV during the day… as well as my shows at night (24, Prison Break, American Idol).
J-term ends next Tuesday, and the spring semester starts the Tuesday after that… so we get a week off in between. I don’t remember it being that long before… but hey, I’m not complaining!