PSA:Have your kid go outside now to see if they really want a cold, northern college

[Anonymous]

Tonight and tomorrow will give DMV high school kids a good way to see if they really would like a northern school. At my cold Ivy it was often -5 when it was time to get up to trudge to class. Everyone wore huge parkas and big boots when going out “dressed up” on the weekends. It’s not for everyone.

[Anonymous]

I thought the same thing! - Dartmouth alum

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Well they’re out walking the dogs, so I’ll ask them. DS applied to McGill, too

[Anonymous]

When I went to college, I left North Carolina to go to Chicago, partially because I wanted winters like this.

[Anonymous]

I have a kid home from Oberlin a day ahead of the storm. Lake Effect is real. He loves the Ohio winters.

Agree with PPs. I took the same kid to see Carleton/St. Olaf/ Macalaster in the winter. He couldn’t say he wasn’t warned.

[Anonymous]

this is silly.

If cold weather was so awful, no one would live and spend so much to live in Switzerland

The cold isn’t an issue - it’s how grimey it is.

The cold at Dartmouth hits different than the cold at Chicago.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Tonight and tomorrow will give DMV high school kids a good way to see if they really would like a northern school. At my cold Ivy it was often -5 when it was time to get up to trudge to class. Everyone wore huge parkas and big boots when going out “dressed up” on the weekends. It’s not for everyone.

If it didn’t get cold, how would you be able to show off your Canada goose or moncler bubble?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I thought the same thing! - Dartmouth alum

Cornell grad. I was thinking op must have gone to Dartmouth!

[Anonymous]

Also going outside in very cold weather doesn't tell you what it's going to be like if you buy warmer clothes than most people wear in the DMV or other moderate climates. I went to a freezing college and had a ball. People stopped and has conversations with one another in the middle of campus when it was zero degrees? Why? Because we wore more layers and had better coats than you usually see people wearing in warmer places. Also we just got used to it.

Ever notice that Dartmouth and Michigan grads are very enthusiastic? It's because the cold isn't really a problem for them.

[Anonymous]

This is OP. I loved my time at Cornell. My kids claim they would rather go to a cold school but I think they are basing that on nothing and need to try it. I remember several west coast students at Cornell who had a hard time with the cold, the dark and the old piles of brown snow.

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Anonymous wrote:This is OP. I loved my time at Cornell. My kids claim they would rather go to a cold school but I think they are basing that on nothing and need to try it. I remember several west coast students at Cornell who had a hard time with the cold, the dark and the old piles of brown snow.

Cornell’s issue isn’t the cold, it is that a lot of the campus isn’t pretty and kinda industrial/rustbeltish.

People have less complains about middlebury or Williams

[Anonymous]

DMV types are pathetic. My memories of winter at Dartmouth are some of the best and most distinctive of my college career. Beautiful snow-covered campus, well heated classrooms and dorms, immediately plowed sidewalks and paths, the same walkable community. And a short van ride to the Dartmouth skiway after classes end. if you don't have to drive to work, or change in and out of work shoes, or shovel your driveway -- or show off your limbs or cleavage -- crisp winter weather is fantastic. But go ahead, direct your kids to "up and coming" schools in the South. One suspects Northern schools are probably better off without kids whose choice of college is swayed by cold weather.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:DMV types are pathetic. My memories of winter at Dartmouth are some of the best and most distinctive of my college career. Beautiful snow-covered campus, well heated classrooms and dorms, immediately plowed sidewalks and paths, the same walkable community. And a short van ride to the Dartmouth skiway after classes end. if you don't have to drive to work, or change in and out of work shoes, or shovel your driveway -- or show off your limbs or cleavage -- crisp winter weather is fantastic. But go ahead, direct your kids to "up and coming" schools in the South. One suspects Northern schools are probably better off without kids whose choice of college is swayed by cold weather.

Yeah well I went to the University of Iowa and I’ll be thrilled if my kids want to go to southern schools.

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I skated on Lake Carnegie at Princeton. Great memory!

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Anonymous wrote:I skated on Lake Carnegie at Princeton. Great memory!

Cold only affects people when they aren’t comforted by the toasty warmth of preftige