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

[Anonymous]

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

You know literally nothing. Cornell's campus is beautiful in a stunning setting overlooking one of the Finger Lakes (seriously, few colleges are in as beautiful a location). And the city of Ithaca is a prosperous university town whose secondary economic pillars are tourism and agriculture, not industry (or "rust"). I"m not an alum, but it's a truly beautiful school in a great setting and people shouldn't be swayed by misinformation from idiots.

What's particularly ironic about your asisine comment is that if you consider a college's location to be dispositive (I don't), most people -- and especially metro DMVdwellers -- would likely find spending a weekend (let alone four years) in backwaters Williamstown MA or Middlebury VT to be like a stay in hospice. Hey, let's go watch the traffic light change....

[Anonymous]

I went to Notre Dame from NC and was shocked at the bitter cold my freshman year - windchill factor was something like -50. My friend’s Alaskan boyfriend was unfazed. No one would zip up their jackets, for some reason.

[Anonymous]

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

Cold weather isn't a deterrent to people whose primary goal from college is getting the best possible education.

[Anonymous]

My kid literally said maybe they should go south as we walked outside tonight 😂😂

[Anonymous]

You never know...I questioned my DD about applying to northern schools when she would complain about cold when it was below 50' outside. She did decide to take the Maine schools off her list.

3 years in at a Massachusetts college and she is the first to admit she has acclimated to the cold. Not wearing a coat and even wearing shorts in weather that would have had her huddling in a blanket indoors in HS.

Apparently I was worried for nothing.

[Anonymous]

My kid's only real requirement for college was cold weather. He's a first year at one of the Maine schools and his only complaint is that it hasn't been cold enough yet. He just left for the gym wearing shorts and a Tshirt and it's 12 degrees outside...

[Anonymous]

Hop in the sack with a warm coed and you’ll be fine.

[Anonymous]

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

I’m from here, and went to college in North Carolina, and even I thought the natives were hysterical in trying to handle the rare instances of snow there.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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

You know literally nothing. Cornell's campus is beautiful in a stunning setting overlooking one of the Finger Lakes (seriously, few colleges are in as beautiful a location). And the city of Ithaca is a prosperous university town whose secondary economic pillars are tourism and agriculture, not industry (or "rust"). I"m not an alum, but it's a truly beautiful school in a great setting and people shouldn't be swayed by misinformation from idiots.

What's particularly ironic about your asisine comment is that if you consider a college's location to be dispositive (I don't), most people -- and especially metro DMVdwellers -- would likely find spending a weekend (let alone four years) in backwaters Williamstown MA or Middlebury VT to be like a stay in hospice. Hey, let's go watch the traffic light change....

PSA - best not to call others idiots when you can’t spell.

[Anonymous]

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

I did too! - Middlebury alum. I also wondered how I survived 4 winters there.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Hop in the sack with a warm coed and you’ll be fine.

The sex is better the colder it is outside - don’t you all remember from college?

[Anonymous]

My son goes to school in Boston and said it’s maybe been this cold 3x in the past 4 years.

[Anonymous]

Some of us LOVED going to school in cold midwestern winters!!!

[Anonymous]

This weather is normal for my Minnesota college in winter, but there I'd be able to go cross country skiing and iceskating right on campus.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My kid's only real requirement for college was cold weather. He's a first year at one of the Maine schools and his only complaint is that it hasn't been cold enough yet. He just left for the gym wearing shorts and a Tshirt and it's 12 degrees outside...

My DS does this too and he is a URM at the Ivy in Ithaca. Absolutely loves the weather, the dark aesthetic, and the school.