Canadian TV doesn't suck as much as it usually does

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I smell like I've been in bed all day. Probably because I have been. On the bright side, the chicken soup I ate for supper is staying down quite nicely, and maybe I've kicked this thing. And I really need to shower before I crawl back into bed for the night

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Regarding college/university, there are cases where a university has certain parts that are called "college", too. For example, I know that the undergraduate part of Harvard is Harvard College. Nobody ever gets a bachelor's degree from Harvard University--they get it from Harvard College. And then there are universities that have different divisions--like liberal arts, and technology, and fine arts--and sometimes those different divisions are "College of [such-and-such]".

Which has little to do with anything, but it's more fun with words.

Also, Canadians don't talk about our freshman, sophomore, junior, and senior years. We refer to our post-secondary years as the first year, second year, third year, and fourth year. Which, incidentally, CalArts kind of does, too. We're referred to as BFA1, BFA2, BFA3, BFA4, MFA1, MFA2, or MFA3s.
I don't know if it's standard graduate school terminology, but at my grad school all grad students referred to themselves as G1, G2, etc. This may have been specific to PhD programs (since you never know when they'll end--I knew at least one G10), but I know it wasn't just my own department.

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And then there are universities that have different divisions--like liberal arts, and technology, and fine arts--and sometimes those different divisions are "College of [such-and-such]".

I think most Canadian universities call theirs the "Faculty of [whatever]". Education, business, fine arts, law, medicine, etc. I know that's not a distinctly Canadian thing, but it's more common to see that than to see "College of..." at a Canadian school.

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Harvard uses that form for the main part of the university--the Faculty of Arts and Sciences--which includes Harvard College and the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. I don't think they have anything else like that, though, because all the others are "School"s, I think. Law School, Medical School, School of Public Health, School or Government, School of Design.

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At the U of C, the only things that are schools and not faculties are departments named after someone--Haskayne School of Business and Schulich School of Engineering. I think the rest are all "Faculty of..."

At CalArts, we differentiate between the Institute and the School. When we talk about something school-wide, it's the School of Theater. When it's Institute-wide, it encompasses the School of Theater, School of Music, School of Art, School of Dance, School of Film and Video, and School of Critical Studies.