So, everybody knows what interterm is.
We get a five-week break for Christmas but we have to spend about three weeks of that break taking a class here at Baker or at some cool place like the Virgin Islands.
Well, as cool and fun as that sounds, I’d like to be able to enjoy my Christmas break at home in California.
By the time December rolls around, I will have been away from home for about five months and I think it would be nice to be able to spend five weeks with my family.
Christmas break and spring break are the only two times I get to go home throughout the school year, so I want to be able to take full advantage of them.
Right now, the only accommodation for out-of-state students to go home for interterm is being able to do an internship.
However, the requirements for this five-week internship are basically the same as those for a 19-week semester internship.
You have to find an internship that relates to your major and get 120 hours of work in.
It is really hard to find an internship with a company within your major and explain to them that you need 120 hours of work in just five weeks during the holidays.
I think a good alternative to being on campus would be to allow out-of-state students to take an online interterm.
It seems to me, this is a very reasonable request, because personally, having to cut Christmas break short for one class is kind of turning me off to Baker University.
If I had known, before coming here, that I would have to stay in Kansas for more than half of Christmas break, it might have deterred me from coming to Baker.
I understand that interterm classes are intended to be fun and a change of pace from the regular classes we take throughout the semester, but I think an online interterm is a very good alternative for someone who lives out of state.
We would not only be able to get the experience of taking an interterm, but we would also be able to be home for the Christmas break.
It’s not that I don’t want to have to take a class over break; I just want to be able to be home for it.