Photo gallery And they’re off! Spring semester is sprung
The first day of spring semester on Tuesday started with a cold winter wind and overcast skies, but the sun peeked through, providing a note of optimism for the semester. With winter break over, students returned to class, reunited with friends, picked up bus passes and prepared for another semester of learning.
![A look at a crowded pedestrian walkway, with snow on the lawns on either side.](https://news.wisc.edu/content/uploads/2023/01/First-Day-Spring-Semester-2023-01-24JM-0004-1024x682.jpg)
Photo by: Jeff Miller
It's called spring semester, but winter will hang on for a while yet. Pedestrians and students stroll along a walkway on snow-covered Bascom Hill.![Two people talk amid a crowd of students in a hallway.](https://news.wisc.edu/content/uploads/2023/01/First-Day-Spring-Semester-2023-01-24JM-0493-1024x682.jpg)
Photo by: Jeff Miller
MBA graduate students David Leemon (right of center) and Eliott Nardi (far right) catch up as they head to class in Grainger Hall.![A classroom is seen through a window.](https://news.wisc.edu/content/uploads/2023/01/First-Day-Spring-Semester-2023-01-24JM-0527-1024x682.jpg)
Photo by: Jeff Miller
Seen through a partially frosted glass window, Ishita Chakraborty, assistant professor of marketing in the Wisconsin School of Business, teaches a class in Grainger Hall.![A person sits in a red chair, with a coffee on the table in front of them, and looks at a laptop.](https://news.wisc.edu/content/uploads/2023/01/First-Day-Spring-Semester-2023-01-24JM-0554-1024x682.jpg)
Photo by: Jeff Miller
Refueling with food, coffee and a laptop charger, Sylvia Neddermeyer (they/them), a junior majoring in biological systems engineering and a UW Marching Band member, takes a break in the lobby of the Chemistry Building addition.![Two people shown in silhouette elbow bumping.](https://news.wisc.edu/content/uploads/2023/01/First-Day-Spring-Semester-2023-01-24JM-0235-1024x682.jpg)
Photo by: Jeff Miller
The first day of the semester is a great time to reunite with friends. Two people elbow bump in the main atrium of the Engineering Centers Building.![At lunchtime, the Sun Garden in Union South filled with students studying and eating.](https://news.wisc.edu/content/uploads/2023/01/First-Day-Spring-Semester-2023-01-24JM-0627-1024x682.jpg)
Photo by: Jeff Miller
At lunchtime, the Sun Garden in Union South filled with students studying and eating.![A person stands in line in front of a white board reading](https://news.wisc.edu/content/uploads/2023/01/First-Day-Spring-Semester-2023-01-24JM-0258-1024x682.jpg)
Photo by: Jeff Miller
Students pick up Madison Metro bus passes at Union South during the first day of the spring semester.![People walk down a hallway, others sit in a nearby classroom.](https://news.wisc.edu/content/uploads/2023/01/First-Day-Spring-Semester-2023-01-24JM-0689-1024x682.jpg)
Photo by: Jeff Miller
It's always good to get back in a classroom and start learning again. These students are in a Van Vleck Hall classroom.Tags: recent sightings, students