Haroun's world does not have a concept of "semesters", possibly because once you get to tier-2 Teaching Skills it is a proposterous thought that everything you want to teach takes a fixed amount of time.  Classes are generally focused around producing a levelup in particular Skills or Skill packages, or preparing for another class that wants you to know something or have practiced something in preparation for a Skillup.  This rarely takes longer than a month, and some classes are as short as three days.  There's likewise no concept of keeping a full schedule in order to assemble 120 academic credits in order to get a bachelor's degree so that you can work as a secretary somewhere that has decided to demand bachelor's degrees.  You just need to perform repeated optimization problems in order to figure out which new classes you're going to start this week, such that, when you finish them, next week's scheduling problem will be manageable!  Thankfully there's a Skill for that.  Also, somewhere behind the scenes, there's a Machine Elf Thing with a by now completely insane operator, which helps time all the courses such that the student body's individual optimization problems will be mostly fairly solvable.

Haroun's world does not have a concept of "semesters", possibly because once you get to tier-2 Teaching Skills it is a proposterous thought that everything you want to teach takes a fixed amount of time.  Classes are generally focused around producing a level-up in particular Skills or Skill packages, or preparing for another class that wants you to know something or have practiced something in preparation for a Skillup.  This rarely takes longer than a month, and some classes are as short as three days.  There's likewise no concept of keeping a full schedule in order to assemble 120 academic credits in order to get a bachelor's degree so that you can work as a secretary somewhere that has decided to demand bachelor's degrees.  You just need to perform repeated optimization problems in order to figure out which new classes you're going to start this week, such that, when you finish them, next week's scheduling problem will be manageable!  Thankfully there's a Skill for that.  Also, somewhere behind the scenes, there's a Machine Elf Thing with a by now completely insane operator, which helps time all the courses such that the student body's individual optimization problems will be mostly fairly solvable.