Autumn (Weeks 1-8): Convocation under the arches; college selection by midterm; Mage Tower tryouts; the first Biblioplex all-nighter.
Founders' Term (Weeks 9-15): Founders' Day festival with a booth for every college and Dean Nassari's spectacle; first exams.
Winter (Weeks 16-22): the Midwinter Mage Tower Classic against the faculty; the Starfall Dance; second exams.
Spring (Weeks 23-30): student elections; the Mage Tower final; finals; the Founders' Masquerade in alternate years; dean elections every fourth year.
First-years touch the arch they entered under on the first and last day of every year. It is said to remember them.
Nobody rides the trolley on foggy nights. Nobody can say why. Barnaby Wick drives it anyway.
Every college keeps a book of names of its graduates. Every college's book has the same blank year.
On Founders' Day the Strixhaven Star prints a list of every class since the Founding. The typesetters leave a gap and are told not to ask about it.
Losing a duel means buying the winner a Firejolt. Losing a Mage Tower final means buying the whole stadium one.