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

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Anonymous wrote:Between the red states and the abortion free states and now, the winter weather states, all of DCUM a will be attending UMCP.

But it's gray and dreary outside today. A cold rain is on the way. Surely no college student can survive in these conditions?

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Anonymous wrote:My Michigan grad friend who is blindly super rah rah and fails to see any shortcoming with the school has never been to California or any place in the Southwest USA. Also has never once been south of Virginia. Literally does not know what she is missing in terms of sunshine and comfortable weather. Yes, many places have seasons even if their winter doesn't involve blizzards and last for almost half the year, despite what some Michiganders think. In contrast, my MI grad friends who come from warmer climates will quickly acknowledge the huge downside to living in those weather conditions, and they got the heck out of the state as soon as they graduated. For these people, the benefits of the school outweigh its downsides and these people offer a balanced view on what it's like to be a student there when asked. But others, especially those born and raised in Michigan, tend to be in some sort of cult mindset about the place and that is what I think people react to in these threads. If you can't even realize and acknowledge that the weather sucks, your opinion about what it's like to be a student there isn't really worth much.

There are people all over the world who are fine with cold weather, some of it even worse than what's in Michigan. I grew up in Ontario, and didn't mind the cold, because I enjoyed winter activities like hockey and sledding.

This will probably come as a shock to you, but not everyone shares your opinion on things like winter weather.

This. I actually don’t like hot weather and year round sunshine. It is highly overrated. There is nothing stranger to me than celebrating Thanksgiving and Christmas in 80 degree weather. No thanks! Some of us like more variation in seasons. And by the way, Midwestern summers and falls are gorgeous and perfect and beat the pants out of those same seasons in the South.

+1000. Was about to write a post saying all of this but thought why bother? The Michigan/Midwestern hater's gonna hate.

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Anonymous wrote:Who is Jim Harbaugh??? WTF are you even talking about?

You clearly don’t follow football. Shocker.

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Anonymous wrote:Between the red states and the abortion free states and now, the winter weather states, all of DCUM a will be attending UMCP.

But it's gray and dreary outside today. A cold rain is on the way. Surely no college student can survive in these conditions?

I once drove from Ann Arbor to Marquette in February to hook up with a girl from U of Northern Michigan. Ann Arbor was practically tropical compared to the Upper Peninsula.

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Anonymous wrote:Between the red states and the abortion free states and now, the winter weather states, all of DCUM a will be attending UMCP.

But it's gray and dreary outside today. A cold rain is on the way. Surely no college student can survive in these conditions?

I just got back from a walk by Lake Michigan & NU campus. It's sunny and 47 degrees out. NU students looked pretty happy to me.

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I will take the 45 degree weather here in Wisconsin today over what is happening in California. There is almost no area of this country that is immune from
some type of unfortunate weather. But it’s just more fun for the self-proclaimed coastal elite snobs to focus their ire on the Midwest.

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Anonymous wrote:Between the red states and the abortion free states and now, the winter weather states, all of DCUM a will be attending UMCP.

But it's gray and dreary outside today. A cold rain is on the way. Surely no college student can survive in these conditions?

I just got back from a walk by Lake Michigan & NU campus. It's sunny and 47 degrees out. NU students looked pretty happy to me.

Oh, we LOVED our visit to Northwestern, and we went in mid-November! It's lovely. And it's odd, I actually used to love hot weather when I was younger, but have been craving the colder seasons as I enter my mid-thirties. Weird how that works since I always thought it's typically the opposite.

My kid loves the colder weather, too.

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Anonymous wrote:My Southern California kid goes to UChicago and I got her a SAD light; lots of sizes and types available on amazon. Non-issue but important to know about it.

There is something else, though, that I've never heard of until lately...that is Vitamin D can be (absorbed or created, not sure which) through the skin via sunlight, or in our food. However; if your body is used to the sun and absorbing it that way, it doesn't "know" how to switch to absobring from food, so kids from more sunnier climates can get a severe deficiency and need to take supplements.

(sorry I'm not more precise on this; it's from my friend, who's son who went from SoCal to upstate NY--but you get the gist )

+1. This sounds like why Judd Apatow's LA-raised daughter left Northwestern. Chicago has a lack of sunshine and the cold is on a different level.

She mostly left because she got a part in Euphoria.

She literally went on one of the late night show's and said it was because it was so cold and depressing.

That was her mom Leslie Mann you're thinking about, not Maude herself. We know some kids at NU who knew Maude and the main reason was that she got the part in Euphoria.

I don't doubt Leslie's story, but I think she was amping it up for comedic effect. And Maude's on record for saying she liked her time at Northwestern.

Thousands of kids from California end up in the Midwest for college, and many/most love it. But I'm ultimately not sure what any of that has to do with you considering that you live in Virginia.

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Anonymous wrote:I wasn't aware that University of Michigan had a long history of kids from other states fighting over OOS spots there. I thought it was a more recent thing that happened after admissions became so much more competitive at the top schools located in places with less harsh weather.

"Right, I forgot this generation of kids are much softer than previous generations."

Michigan's been a popular school with OOS students since at least the 90s.

+1

So much ignorance on these Michigan-hating threads.

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Anonymous wrote:My Southern California kid goes to UChicago and I got her a SAD light; lots of sizes and types available on amazon. Non-issue but important to know about it.

There is something else, though, that I've never heard of until lately...that is Vitamin D can be (absorbed or created, not sure which) through the skin via sunlight, or in our food. However; if your body is used to the sun and absorbing it that way, it doesn't "know" how to switch to absobring from food, so kids from more sunnier climates can get a severe deficiency and need to take supplements.

(sorry I'm not more precise on this; it's from my friend, who's son who went from SoCal to upstate NY--but you get the gist )

+1. This sounds like why Judd Apatow's LA-raised daughter left Northwestern. Chicago has a lack of sunshine and the cold is on a different level.

She mostly left because she got a part in Euphoria.

She literally went on one of the late night show's and said it was because it was so cold and depressing.

That was her mom Leslie Mann you're thinking about, not Maude herself. We know some kids at NU who knew Maude and the main reason was that she got the part in Euphoria.

I don't doubt Leslie's story, but I think she was amping it up for comedic effect. And Maude's on record for saying she liked her time at Northwestern.

Thousands of kids from California end up in the Midwest for college, and many/most love it. But I'm ultimately not sure what any of that has to do with you considering that you live in Virginia.

Maude refutes her mom in this interview, and literally says that she did not leave the school because it was cold. The PP is misremembering as part of their weird agenda against "the upper Midwest".

https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2019/06/maude-apatow-caught-the-acting-bug-from-musicals

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Anonymous wrote:My Southern California kid goes to UChicago and I got her a SAD light; lots of sizes and types available on amazon. Non-issue but important to know about it.

There is something else, though, that I've never heard of until lately...that is Vitamin D can be (absorbed or created, not sure which) through the skin via sunlight, or in our food. However; if your body is used to the sun and absorbing it that way, it doesn't "know" how to switch to absobring from food, so kids from more sunnier climates can get a severe deficiency and need to take supplements.

(sorry I'm not more precise on this; it's from my friend, who's son who went from SoCal to upstate NY--but you get the gist )

+1. This sounds like why Judd Apatow's LA-raised daughter left Northwestern. Chicago has a lack of sunshine and the cold is on a different level.

She mostly left because she got a part in Euphoria.

She literally went on one of the late night show's and said it was because it was so cold and depressing.

OK I got curious and had to look this up. She doesn't say that about Northwestern.

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Anonymous wrote:Between the red states and the abortion free states and now, the winter weather states, all of DCUM a will be attending UMCP.

But it's gray and dreary outside today. A cold rain is on the way. Surely no college student can survive in these conditions?

I once drove from Ann Arbor to Marquette in February to hook up with a girl from U of Northern Michigan. Ann Arbor was practically tropical compared to the Upper Peninsula.

Hope you got laid.

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You could look at it another way OP. I went to law school in Cleveland which has the second least amount of sunshine after Buffalo (according to Rand McNally. Yes, the weather totally sucked, but I did well because there were no outdoor temptations. Maybe kids do a lot better where the weather sucks. If they go to " fun in the sun" places, they won't want to study.

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Anonymous wrote:Between the red states and the abortion free states and now, the winter weather states, all of DCUM a will be attending UMCP.

But it's gray and dreary outside today. A cold rain is on the way. Surely no college student can survive in these conditions?

I once drove from Ann Arbor to Marquette in February to hook up with a girl from U of Northern Michigan. Ann Arbor was practically tropical compared to the Upper Peninsula.

Hope you got laid.

Indeed I did. Best way to stay warm in winter is a nice solid Michigan girl

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Thank you rust belt sleuths for tracking down precisely what a rich California gal and her rich mom said about why she dropped out of a Chicago college over winter break many years ago. The mom was lying about it being weather related and Maude was being 100% honest when walking mom’s comments back — the walk back was not PR influenced, it had nothing to do with the viral outrage which characterized her as a spoiled rich California brat. Glad we could clear that up and I’m glad we could expose her mom as a compulsive liar.