Dorm with no A/C - Recommendations?

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Anonymous wrote:I don't care if it's freaking Harvard or Yale. No AC is a deal breaker for this family. So miserable! Who wants to live like that for years?!? It's like camp but it never ends!

Ok….I guess go ahead and rule out most NE schools.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I could see the concern if they were in the South, but New England? Come on it's just not that bad. My dd is in school in CT and she and roomates have used regular old fans and been fine. Fall is basically here and temps will be cooling off significantly. Tell them to rub a little dirt in it and stop griping.

Ha! Might want to check weather.com

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Anonymous wrote:DD is at a college in New England where freshman dorms have no A/C. She and her roomie have bought 6 fans and are still hot despite it only being 75 this week. Any suggestions for a great fan or portable A/C that doesn’t go in the window? Thanks!

Those fan motors are all giving off heat as are any other appliances that they have; six seems counter productive. One or two fans and opening the windows at night worked when I was in school. During the day, just avoid your room if it's too hot. The gym, cafeteria, library, and academic buildings will all have ac. It's a good time to poke around and find somewhere out of the way to study

The earth has gotten hotter since you were in college, Granny. What worked then isn't necessarily going to work now. That's why there are so many more wildfires now, so many more days with the temp over 100 now, etc. The earth is burning.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I could see the concern if they were in the South, but New England? Come on it's just not that bad. My dd is in school in CT and she and roommates have used regular old fans and been fine. Fall is basically here and temps will be cooling off significantly. Tell them to rub a little dirt in it and stop griping.

Ha! Might want to check weather.com

I just did. 72 in Boston, 77 in Hartford CT. I think they can handle it.

[Anonymous]

They'll be fine. It'll cool off in a couple of weeks, especially at night. My DD was a freshman at William & Mary on the top floor of a dorm with no AC - it forced her to hang out in areas that did have AC and meet people.

[Anonymous]

I'm sure in December and January there will be complaints about having to walk around on cold campus in the winter. One of the big issues a few years ago at UMD was the mold in the dorms - because of the humidity levels and no a/c. https://dbknews.com/0999/12/31/arc-p2r2sprswvbwrkatntld2f3nii/. That is the biggest concern in these dorms without A/C - how do you manage allergens like mold?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don't care if it's freaking Harvard or Yale. No AC is a deal breaker for this family. So miserable! Who wants to live like that for years?!? It's like camp but it never ends!

The drama! It's not "for years", it is for a week or two until it cools off in New England. Honestly, if they can't figure out how to put a fan in a window to blow cold air into the room at night, perhaps they aren't ready for college.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't care if it's freaking Harvard or Yale. No AC is a deal breaker for this family. So miserable! Who wants to live like that for years?!? It's like camp but it never ends!

The drama! It's not "for years", it is for a week or two until it cools off in New England. Honestly, if they can't figure out how to put a fan in a window to blow cold air into the room at night, perhaps they aren't ready for college.

It seems the DCUM community is afraid of any type of hardship for their kids. Resilience and grit aren't highly sought after traits - and yet that is exactly what is going to be needed to get through college with or without a/c. Sure A/C would be nice but my son had a choice of dorms - one with/one without and decided he liked the one without. He said its been hot but so far there was really only 1 tough night and he's been fine since then.

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Why be uncomfortable? I hated being hit the first month of college. Are students allowed to have portable AC units?

[Anonymous]

It seems a few people don’t realize all experiences are not the same. From one’s own heat tolerance to differences among buildings and rooms. Higher floors; afternoon sun; tree shade; building materials; quality of window shades and so on.

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This is why kids want to go to school in the south, brand new dorms and air conditioning.

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Another indication that nobody truly believes in the “global warming threat”

I already knew it the whole time but many are still fooled until it comes with going without a/c (which humans have done without for eons)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It seems a few people don’t realize all experiences are not the same. From one’s own heat tolerance to differences among buildings and rooms. Higher floors; afternoon sun; tree shade; building materials; quality of window shades and so on.

Yea, I'm from coastal Ca. I cannot handle the heat and humidity. DH jokes my heat tolerance is between 72 and 78F.

[Anonymous]

It's New England. Give it one week.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is why kids want to go to school in the south, brand new dorms and air conditioning.

I don't think a/c is why they want to go south.