Anonymous wrote:Most houses in New England don’t even need AC. Pop a window and face 1-2 fans in the correct cross breeze. 6 fans is absurd. It significantly cools down at night so make sure they keep the window open all night. They’re college kids, they’ll survive.

Yeah and the also have mold.

I went to school in NJ and our dorms never had A/C. It's just the first and last week of the year when it got sort of hot. Then I'd hang in the library or any other campus building during the day, and by night it had cooled down anyway.

Anonymous wrote:If a window AC is not allowed then go get a portable AC (which still connects to the window). Available anywhere like Costco or Home Depot. If that is not allowed then of course get a fan.

Most places do NOT allow AC units in the dorms. The dorms are old, the electrical infrastructure is NOT in place to support that. If it was easy, they likely would have added AC units to each dorm room...but it is not and it's costly to upgrade

My freshman dorm room in NC had no AC. We survived.

If a window AC is not allowed then go get a portable AC (which still connects to the window). Available anywhere like Costco or Home Depot. If that is not allowed then of course get a fan.

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.

It's New England. Give it one week.

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.

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)

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

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.

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

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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!

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.

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.

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?