Anonymous
12/23/2022 19:22
Subject: PSA:Have your kid go outside now to see if they really want a cold, northern college
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
Anonymous
12/23/2022 19:20
Subject: PSA:Have your kid go outside now to see if they really want a cold, northern college
I skated on Lake Carnegie at Princeton. Great memory!
Anonymous
12/23/2022 19:17
Subject: Re:PSA:Have your kid go outside now to see if they really want a cold, northern college
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.
Anonymous
12/23/2022 19:06
Subject: Re:PSA:Have your kid go outside now to see if they really want a cold, northern college
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
12/23/2022 19:05
Subject: PSA:Have your kid go outside now to see if they really want a cold, northern college
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
12/23/2022 18:58
Subject: PSA:Have your kid go outside now to see if they really want a cold, northern college
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.
Anonymous
12/23/2022 18:56
Subject: PSA:Have your kid go outside now to see if they really want a cold, northern college
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.
Ever notice that Dartmouth and Michigan grads are very enthusiastic? It's because the cold isn't really a problem for them.
Anonymous
12/23/2022 18:54
Subject: PSA:Have your kid go outside now to see if they really want a cold, northern college
Anonymous wrote:I thought the same thing! - Dartmouth alum
Cornell grad. I was thinking op must have gone to Dartmouth!
Anonymous
12/23/2022 18:52
Subject: PSA:Have your kid go outside now to see if they really want a cold, northern college
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
12/23/2022 18:51
Subject: PSA:Have your kid go outside now to see if they really want a cold, northern college
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.
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
12/23/2022 18:51
Subject: PSA:Have your kid go outside now to see if they really want a cold, northern college
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.
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
12/23/2022 18:43
Subject: PSA:Have your kid go outside now to see if they really want a cold, northern college
When I went to college, I left North Carolina to go to Chicago, partially because I wanted winters like this.
Anonymous
12/23/2022 18:39
Subject: PSA:Have your kid go outside now to see if they really want a cold, northern college
Well they’re out walking the dogs, so I’ll ask them. DS applied to McGill, too 
Anonymous
12/23/2022 18:34
Subject: PSA:Have your kid go outside now to see if they really want a cold, northern college
I thought the same thing! - Dartmouth alum
Anonymous
12/23/2022 18:32
Subject: PSA:Have your kid go outside now to see if they really want a cold, northern college
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.