User blog comment:Varzan Deodinm Beldinm/Overpoweredness and the Tension: Should we Care?/@comment-3146930-20140825231324/@comment-2006510-20140826043257

True, we can't tell exactly when the semester started (as for all we know, the world of Remnant may not have seasons - or maybe they do, but they're not the same as ours), though I doubt it's at the same general month as ours.

For myself, the school system (in GR, MI) had two semesters, and called those the two terms of the year. But there's many different systems that Beacon could be using, and it's not entirely clear just yet