The same class, at the same time, everyday.Tests just a few weeks into school, and homework every night.No, it isn’t high school — it’s summer session.

However some students, like Nick Pinelli, junior in business managment, said they prefer taking summer courses to the regular semester set-up.

“It’s not bad, because during the year I have class every day anyway … so it’s really the same thing,” Pinelli said. “Except instead of four classes it’s one.”

He also said he likes knowing that regardless of how much he may dislike a class, he’ll be done with it in about five weeks. And according to Pinelli, the nightly coursework isn’t really an issue.

“I tend to do stuff last minute anyway, so I don’t really mind,” he said.

For Chris George, senior in electrical and computer engineering, the time won’t fly by quite so quickly.

“Mine are 10-week classes, so our first tests are next week,” he said.

George is taking two classes, electric circuits and analytical foundations of ece, and he said that while the class atmosphere is much more laid back in the summer than during regular semester, he’d still rather be on vacation.

Pinelli agreed that not being able to just up and go to the beach was a downfall of summer courses, but for Pinelli the hardest thing to get used to during summer session is the sudden onset of exams.

“I just started two and a half weeks ago and I have two midterms this week already,” he said.

George’s first tests don’t take place until next week.

“It’s not hard [getting accustomed to the work load]…it just feels like time is going by quicker,” George said.

George said he feels like professors skip over some information during summer classes, because they just simply don’t have the time to cover it. He said it doesn’t bother him though.

“Our curriculum is pretty dense. It’s impossible to teach everything even in a normal semester,” he said. “So I feel like I’m getting my money’s worth.”

Both George and Pinelli have part-time jobs, and they said they enjoy summer courses better when it comes juggling school, work and social life.

George is a mac specialist at the Apple store at Southpoint Mall in Durham, and said working alongside schoolwork is easier in the summer because he has more free time than during the regular school year.

Pinelli is a waiter at Capri Restaurant on Falls of Neuse in Raleigh, and expressed a similar sentiment.

“It’s better this way,” Pinelli said. “I have less school work and at the same time I’m getting ahead.”