I personally find that it'd be much more interesting to have different courses every day rather than the same ones every day for a whole 3/4 months or whatever it is, but I guess I wouldn't know since I've been in a nonsemestered school for most of my life.

"^ very true. and things pile up, especially with teachers assuming since you've got so much time they can give you even more assignments (forgetting that 7 other teachers are doing precisely the same things)."

this teaches good time management!

I find that funny lol ... doesn't it depend on the professor? I find it so much easier to catch up in non-semestered school when I miss school, just because the pace is slower. But somehow, it seems like there are less assignments overall with semestered schools.

semester or not, you necessarily do the same amount of work.

The only disadvantage about year long courses is having 5 ~ 8 exams at the end of the school year

I'm attending a non-semester school right now, but also took virtual school courses online, which is semestered. I think I enjoy the yearly system better because I'm have 6-8 varieties and don't have the same classes everyday.
However, our school board introduced this new thing called "culminating activity" last year, which is suppose to help with exams. Instead of making the exam worth 30% of our final mark, it is now only worth 20-25, the rest 10%-5% is now with the culminating activity. This is a great addition for the semestered schools, but a nightmare for us. We have to juggle 6-8 culminating activities, and they are all assigned just 3-2 weeks before exams start.

lol... One of my teachers suddenly stopped from coming to school at around November
(for what reason, i don't know). Because it was so sudden, and the school could
not get a replacement, we were stuck with substitute teachers (who didn't teach or do anything) for
about 75% of the school year. After getting the new permanent teacher, at around march,
we had to learn the whole curriculum in a few months in addition to isp's and exams that were
just rolling around the curb. The work load was beyond belief and everyone who took
it as a bird course, painfully regretted it.

But such is life, and Murphy's law dictates that "if anything can go wrong, it will."
now because of this i learned a valuable lesson: life sucks, so you should be ready
when it bites you in the behind

lol, i digress, my point is that I'd much rather have semesters than not.