Siobhan, I think most schools on the semester system work the way yours does. I go to UofMichigan and ours works exactly like yours. We use the words "term" and "semester" at my school interchangeably. So it's whatever you prefer to say.
To answer this question, my classes work similar to some of the others. Our classes in our time schedule books say that all classes start on the hour, however at Michigan, we have what is known as "Michigan Time". So all classes w/ the exception of art classes, start 10 min after the hour. So if the time schedule booklet says a class is from, say, 1-2pm, then it actually starts at 1:10, making the class only 50 min. If the booklet says it starts at 10:30am, it really starts at 10:40am. This allows everyone time to get from class to class if they wanna schedule their classes back to back. It works well. However, when I actually have to be somewhere ON the hour, I get messed up! :P
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