Please share your thoughts in the Comments here, and visit us on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and LinkedIn.Senior 1. And medical school is often broken up into preclinical (the first two years) and clinical (the second two years), which are followed by an internship and residency - it takes a long time to become a doctor!). The three years of law school can be referred to as 1L, 2L and 3L. Years of graduate school are often just referred to by number for example, "I'm in my first year" or "I'm a first-year." Some types of graduate school may have other ways of delineating years as well.
These same terms apply in the same way to the four years of a standard high school: 9 th grade is freshman year, 10 th grade sophomore year, 11 th grade junior year, and 12 th grade senior year.īut these same words are not used to describe the years of graduate school. Senior can be abbreviated as "sr." in writing. (4) senior year, and someone in their fourth year is a senior. Junior can be abbreviated as "jr." in writing. (3) junior year, and someone in their third year is a junior. Sometimes sophomore is shortened to "soph."Īs a side note, the word "sophomoric," means juvenile or, as Merriam-Webster's dictionary puts it, "conceited and overconfident of knowledge but poorly informed and immature." Not that that describes college sophomores, right? (2) sophomore year, and someone in their second year is a sophomore. You might sometimes hear this shortened to "frosh." (1) freshman year, and someone in their first year is a freshman. The four years of undergraduate education are called: Being a "wise fool" definitely reflects the kind of self-confidence that characterises second-year college students. The word comes from the ancient Greek and combines the roots for "wise" and "fool". I knew "freshman" that makes sense, as does "senior", but I didn't know why a "sophomore" should come before a "junior". It took me a little while to learn that when I first got here.
The latest words you asked us to define are: freshman, sophomore, junior and senior - the words to describe what year of school someone is in. Our Glossary of Confusing Words is really growing, thanks to your suggestions and submissions!
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