I'm going to visit a university in a town ~4.5 hours away for an open day on January 4th so hopefully I'll find out?

In the US, most universities will allow you to enroll as a part-time student, so you would only have one or two classes ongoing at the same time
would that be smth you can access? it might help with stress to have a lighter workload

that's such a good idea!!

for us,we can choose to have a passive half year twice which means we take half a year off and continue later

passive semester I mean

and if you do that twice that means you get one full semester of passivity? that's a cool idea

one entire year,yeah!