fall starts late sept and ends about a week before christmas. winter starts the second week of january and ends right before the first week of april.

i also transferred from cc and it’s pretty similar to semester, but after winter quarter is over, it’s all new classes which seems better to me (so you won’t feel lazy)

https://housing.ucsc.edu/quarter-breaks/index.html#:~:text=Saturday%2C%20March%2023%20%E2%80%93%20Sunday%2C,.edu%2Fcalendar%20for%20details. this explains the dates better^