h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

How DO they work out when Easter is supposed to be? Something to do with the moon? We have to be back and signed in from our break on Easter Monday (because the university just counts weeks, sensibly) which is going to make it hell driving up there, with all the holidaymakers on their way home.

I don't understand it either... last year we finished for the "non-Easter" break, as it is now unofficially known, on Good Friday, the first time in a good few years the holiday was actually an Easter one.

Our summer term is actually called 'Easter term' in all the official literature, so I guess at least they're not trying to deceive us.

bizarre...
Can't recall what ours are called - it all gets confused between Semesters and Terms.
I guess they could be the Michaelmas, Martinmas, whatever other names they come up with, terms

I hear Oxford's middle term (after Xmas, before Easter) is called Hilary.

*wonders if there's something particularly Hilary-ish about the soggy end of winter/beginning of spring*

I don't know anyone called Hilary. Do you? And are they kinda depressing and cold?

my aunt (by marriage) is called Hilary... she's generally chirpy.

But I suspect it's named after a bloke-Hilary, in which case he probably would be gloomy and depressed.

Maybe. I thought giving men girly names made them tough (if they're not they die out, natural selction and all that)

hmmm, interesting...
so they call the term Hilary, and it becomes a tough term to get through in one piece (I was just about dead by the end of it!)

on the whole I prefer Michael and Martin

Well, the next term should be, erm, worse, but at least there's something to look forward to at the end of it (May Week, which happens to be in June, of course)

ah yes, self must confess she never understood that!

our May Ball falls in May - fantastically (but then we do finish for the year on the 30th of that particular month!) and is also hideously expensive.

Ha, my two weeks of exams begins the day before that. Which happens to be my birthday. Hoping that I don't actually have one that day.

Hideously expensive, but what else is going to get you through the stress? (I speak as one who secretly can't afford the ticket, but bought it anyway)

I'm still debating - given that you only pay once, all food, drink and fairground rides are free after that. Except they tend to run out of mixers at about 1am (it goes on till 6...) neat vodka and gin mmmmm

Fairground rides! yay!
The one I'm going to has 'ice' theme, so ice rink, ice cream, etc.