Ongoing midterms at TU

Students continue to take exams following the submission of midterm grades.
On Oct. 18, midterm grades were due. For some, this marked the end of the midterm exam period, which makes sense seeing as the submission of midterm grades are meant to signify that the middle of the term has now closed. However, for other students, midterm exams have yet to begin while more have been in the midterm exam period for the past few weeks and will continue to take midterms in the coming weeks as well.
The exam period, then, is simply too long. This likely stems from the good will of our professors who recognize that we should not have four to six exams in a two-week period and, so, move their exams backward or forward a week or two with the intention of ensuring their students are not unduly burdened for a couple of weeks with studying for and taking four to six exams in addition to their normal workload. However, with many professors having this same idea, this moves the exam period forward by a few weeks or makes it a month long. While this may not be an issue for some who have their exams in waves, meaning their exams are split with part being earlier in the month, there being a break, and part being towards the end of the month, as a person within the College of the Arts and Sciences which is heavily based in writing, this is torturous.
Because exam periods are now longer, some professors may feel compelled to assign take-home essays rather than having in-class exams, which, again, is in good faith as they want to give their students enough time to complete their exam. The issue, however, is that when this happens, the shorter exam is expanded into a long essay.
Furthermore, when several professors have this same thought, rather than having five exams in the span of a few weeks in addition to some non-midterm essays, A&S students now have no exams that take hours to study for and complete and instead have five essays in addition to the other non-midterm essays and other assignments that take days to complete each.
While I do not have the perfect short exam to longer essay ratio, I would like to pitch a different resolution and exam format: oral exams. Having oral exams either in the form of presentations or sit-down conversations with the professor about a subject or theme of the course perfectly resolves the issue. Students spend hours studying the topic they will discuss or prepare their presentations and spend fifteen minutes or longer in conversation with their professor or class, which bypasses the stress of having several longer exams and worry over remembering every detail and instead allows flexibility in what they focus on while ensuring they still understand the course material, particularly central themes. It, further, allows a back and forth and better exploration of the subject rather than spending an hour and a half info dumping on a piece of paper. Lastly, rather than spending hours grading each individual exam, professors are able to more quickly issue grades, saving time for them as well while the education of the student is not compromised.
Ultimately, this is just a suggestion, but it is a hill I will die on. No matter what the change is, aside from solely shortening the time for midterms back to two weeks, I request that midterms are no longer a month long.