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Maybe someone who posts on here has the official calendar for the next academic year (2012-2013).

There will be an official calendar. And these may be available now.
Try checking for your course specifically. Contact the admissions office for your course, and chase it up if you don't get an answer.

Course start dates may vary (delays due to cock-ups). Also for new students the registration period can be unclear, this is usually not before semester starts (but can be), then teaching may start the following week.

Winter Semester usually ends to coincide with Spring Festival (Chinese New Year), this festival is set by the lunar calendar and changes each year. The next semester begins about a month after this.

@blobbles
I agree on your strategy. It is the one I use, and the only one I have any control over. Trying to do otherwise only sent me crazy, and so I stopped. I now have more peace in my online life.

I recently read (in a book) that there will always be 20% of people who will like us, 60% will be indifferent. The other 20% of people will decided they dislike us, no matter what we try to do.
The flip side is that we will dislike 20% of other people. There is not much we can do about this statistic. But we can at least try to be civil.
The book goes on to say that only a very few people in our lives actually matter to us. The others outside of our 'important' group are not really that important, and so don't waste too much time or energy on them.

I think that most internet interactions fall into the unimportant group; for example, if I died tomorrow would any on the Web even know?

@HFcampo
Our posts must have crossed in the ether.

If he talks like a duck, he may just be plain kwackers.

There is an irony here.
Drawing attention to the perceived wrongs of others in such a manner.

@Alex
You are right, I was wrong. Mae Culpa.

The results of this research will look like market research. In fact the survey does look like market research. Unless the Master's has a strong marketing bias...