El Camino’s winter session is returning for students for the first time in three years.

Some students plan on taking advantage of that to get ahead in school, while others plan to relax.

“I will take my Math 80 course. It reduces our time on campus and allows us to transfer quicker,” Justin Anaya, 19, business administration major, said.

On the other hand Anaya also said that he would only take one class due to the short time frame of the winter session.

“I feel that it is too compressed to take more than one class and it is a requirement to transfer to a four year university,” Anaya said. “It’s a prerequisite to move up in the math scale because I have to get up to Math 150.”

The classes offered during the winter session at EC are usually four to five days a week and can be helpful to students who have the time to take those classes.

“It’s really good, because it provides a faster route for students to complete their units and any courses they need to take,” Kevin Delcid, 20, physics major, said.

There are other benefits to taking the winter session as well.

“It’s very worth it because it’s a bigger window of applications for students to come in and it’s financially better for El Camino,” Delcid said.

He added that he had planned on taking a winter session at another nearby college, and was “surprised” to find out it was returning to EC.

Some students, despite the winter session returning, may prefer to wait until spring semester to take their classes.

“I’d probably prefer the spring (semester), because, you know, the weather and all that, and you can sleep more and be more comfortable and the teachers are more relaxed and helpful, but while in the winter it is ‘get things done quickly,’” Nathan Arroyo, 19, computer engineering major, said.