WARNING before you send your child to an upper Midwest cold weather college

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Buffalo is in the Rust Belt. What are the Rust Belt states? Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Missouri, western New York, Ohio, western Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin.

No teens in 2023 are growing up dreaming of moving to freezing cold podunk Rust Belt towns for college.

You're right. There are zero kids dreaming of going to University of Chicago, Notre Dame, Michigan, Northwestern, Carnegie Mellon or Cornell. I heard these schools didn't get any applications at all this year because no self-respecting high school senior would ever go there.

Were you always this ignorant?

Tell us you're an Ann Arbor or Ypsilanti resident without telling us. Get a life Romani.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Buffalo is in the Rust Belt. What are the Rust Belt states? Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Missouri, western New York, Ohio, western Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin.

No teens in 2023 are growing up dreaming of moving to freezing cold podunk Rust Belt towns for college.

You're right. There are zero kids dreaming of going to University of Chicago, Notre Dame, Michigan, Northwestern, Carnegie Mellon or Cornell. I heard these schools didn't get any applications at all this year because no self-respecting high school senior would ever go there.

Were you always this ignorant?

Tell us you're an Ann Arbor or Ypsilanti resident without telling us. Get a life Romani.

I live in Arlington, off Military Road. My family lived in Michigan for 5 years. I haven't been back since the early 2000's.

Also, Romani? What the hell?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Buffalo is in the Rust Belt. What are the Rust Belt states? Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Missouri, western New York, Ohio, western Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin.

No teens in 2023 are growing up dreaming of moving to freezing cold podunk Rust Belt towns for college.

You're right. There are zero kids dreaming of going to University of Chicago, Notre Dame, Michigan, Northwestern, Carnegie Mellon or Cornell. I heard these schools didn't get any applications at all this year because no self-respecting high school senior would ever go there.

Were you always this ignorant?

Tell us you're an Ann Arbor or Ypsilanti resident without telling us. Get a life Romani.

I live in Arlington, off Military Road. My family lived in Michigan for 5 years. I haven't been back since the early 2000's.

Also, Romani? What the hell?

Don't mind them/she/he. They spend their time accusing everyone who chimes in as being a local. Seems to be a compliment now.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's fascinating that the Rust Belt lifers can't get it through their thick skulls that Ivy League colleges are unique. And Notre Dame is unique. On the other hand, gigantic over-enrolled Big Ten colleges are not unique. That same cattle call binge drinking undergrad experience is available in every state college in the union. You don't have to be depressed and freeze your ass off all year in Indiana or Michigan to be in an 800 student bio lecture and root for a football team.

But, but “unique” Notre Dame is in Indiana, where they have to “freeze their ass off all year” too. Or in your silly little head, maybe you think that there is a dome of sunshine surrounding it from the scary, nasty remainder of the state. I think that you might have yourself so tied in an angry pretzel over the Midwest/Big Ten that you don’t even know which end is up anymore. Time to put down the iphone, sweetie.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Buffalo is in the Rust Belt. What are the Rust Belt states? Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Missouri, western New York, Ohio, western Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin.

No teens in 2023 are growing up dreaming of moving to freezing cold podunk Rust Belt towns for college.

You're right. There are zero kids dreaming of going to University of Chicago, Notre Dame, Michigan, Northwestern, Carnegie Mellon or Cornell. I heard these schools didn't get any applications at all this year because no self-respecting high school senior would ever go there.

Were you always this ignorant?

Tell us you're an Ann Arbor or Ypsilanti resident without telling us. Get a life Romani.

I live in Arlington, off Military Road. My family lived in Michigan for 5 years. I haven't been back since the early 2000's.

Also, Romani? What the hell?

Don't mind them/she/he. They spend their time accusing everyone who chimes in as being a local. Seems to be a compliment now.

And it's funny that they'd think an Ann Arbor or Ypsilanti local would be a cheerleader for U of M. It tells me that whoever they are, they don't really understand the dynamic between town and gown. I'm guessing they never went to college.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Buffalo is in the Rust Belt. What are the Rust Belt states? Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Missouri, western New York, Ohio, western Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin.

No teens in 2023 are growing up dreaming of moving to freezing cold podunk Rust Belt towns for college.

You're right. There are zero kids dreaming of going to University of Chicago, Notre Dame, Michigan, Northwestern, Carnegie Mellon or Cornell. I heard these schools didn't get any applications at all this year because no self-respecting high school senior would ever go there.

Were you always this ignorant?

Tell us you're an Ann Arbor or Ypsilanti resident without telling us. Get a life Romani.

I live in Arlington, off Military Road. My family lived in Michigan for 5 years. I haven't been back since the early 2000's.

Also, Romani? What the hell?

Don't mind them/she/he. They spend their time accusing everyone who chimes in as being a local. Seems to be a compliment now.

And it's funny that they'd think an Ann Arbor or Ypsilanti local would be a cheerleader for U of M. It tells me that whoever they are, they don't really understand the dynamic between town and gown. I'm guessing they never went to college.

Well, they didn’t realize that Notre Dame was in Indiana, so you are probably right.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I went to BU and Boston was no picnic in the winter and spring, either. My sister went to Colby in Maine and she froze there for sure. Brother went to U Vermont and trust me, he didn’t have a balmy winter either.

It’s not all about the Midwest! But when you are young you don’t feel the cold in the same way, and you don’t care about the weather unless you are diagnosed with SAD or some other issue related to depressing and the weather.

Boston is on the Acela, with access to a global airport. Very different from being isolated on a frigid island in Chicago or even worse, one of the podunk Big Ten college towns in the middle west.

At academically challenging schools, whether in Boston or Ann Arbor, students, even the rich ones, aren't jetting away on the weekends to the Caribbean or Europe. They're doing schoolwork and socializing with their friends.

Our daughter went to college in Boston they would all regularly take the train to visit friends at other colleges. That's not an option in the middle on nowhere midwest. You're on an island in flyover country.

I went to school in Ann Arbor and would drive to visit friends at other colleges such as Michigan State, Notre Dame, and Purdue, among others.

I guess you weren't rich enough to buy a car for your daughter, so she had to take the train.

There's also a train between Chicago and Ann Arbor. I used to take it all the time to visit my friend at Michigan. There are buses and trains all over the Midwest.

[Anonymous]

The antagonist, who started this discussion, is obviously unhinged. I think it’s best to just end it here and stop responding to him/her.

[Anonymous]

Nothing unique about UChicago unless you consider muggings and needing Uber to safely trek across campus a unique cultural experience.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's fascinating that the Rust Belt lifers can't get it through their thick skulls that Ivy League colleges are unique. And Notre Dame is unique. On the other hand, gigantic over-enrolled Big Ten colleges are not unique. That same cattle call binge drinking undergrad experience is available in every state college in the union. You don't have to be depressed and freeze your ass off all year in Indiana or Michigan to be in an 800 student bio lecture and root for a football team.

You're not going to Indiana to root for its football team.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Nothing unique about UChicago unless you consider muggings and needing Uber to safely trek across campus a unique cultural experience.

Well, other than that it is one of the top schools in the country, it's a totally pedestrian academic institution.

[Anonymous]

OP is a Russian troll sent to stir up pointless dissent among Americans. Ignore.

[Anonymous]

I live in Chicago and can attest that it absolutely has been a grey, dreary winter. Very little snow outside of one dramatic snowstorm.

But, I also think making college decisions based on the weather is ridiculous.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I live in Chicago and can attest that it absolutely has been a grey, dreary winter. Very little snow outside of one dramatic snowstorm.

But, I also think making college decisions based on the weather is ridiculous.

Taking your mental health seriously is not ridiculous. The upper Midwest is a depressing sunless place, especially during the school year.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:My kid is at Cornell--can't get much worse than that.

There is an engineering in extreme upstate New York that is much more isolated than Cornell. Plus, Cornell has a lot of natural beauty and a nice college town (Ithaca).

RPI?

Ithaca has a lot of cold, grey days in the winter. But at least it doesn’t have lake-effect snow like Syracuse, Buffalo, etc.

Personal opinion of someone who grew up near Rochester: the lake effect snow actually helps -- sure there's no sunlight, but at least there's always fresh snow sparking at you 24/7. Ithaca and places where it's cold/dreary without snow are the worst of both worlds.

Ironically, Rochester has had little to no snow so far this season. Despite the fact that Buffalo just 90 miles away has had 12ft+. But I'm sure that will change soon for my kid