If these dorms were being used by adults, there is no freaking way they'd get by without A/C. It would be installed immediately. But since it's "only" teens/young adults who have to sleep there, it's perfectly ok to make them sweat and get no sleep. Really, a disgusting mentality.

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Anonymous wrote:Ridiculous. I went to Hopkins in Baltimore and when I was a sophomore, I found a used window AC unit in the paper and bought it from the money I made in my on campus job. I paid about $40 for an old AC unit, put it in my window and had AC in my room. I left the dorms in my junior year and moved it to the apartment I had. I was popular, and had friends that would come over on hot days to play cards in my room since I had the AC unit. After I graduated, I stayed in my apartment for another few years because I had a job down at Hopkins Hospital. When I finally left, I was moving out to the DC suburbs to take a job in the DC area. I donated my window AC unit to my old roommates because the condo I was moving to had central AC.

Now, window AC units are cheap. You can get one that will be enough for a college/apartment bedroom for about $150. If you want one for a bigger area like a living room, it's like $300. If the kid has roommates, they can chip in to buy one new. Or, the rich private college parents can buy one. There is no reason that the university needs to pay for central AC which will be significantly more costly for the university than window units for the kids who really want/need one, especially in an area that doesn't need one more than a few weeks out of the year.

You sound extremely out of touch. A/C units are not allowed in these old dorms! The electrical system can’t handle it. I would have no problem buying a window unit for my kid to use in an un-airconditioned dorm - if we were allowed to!

Not quite. They do allow large fans. I had one in my circa 1800s for at
Harvard law and DD was handed one free at Yale when she signed in. Yes it’s miserable in septet and May but I did have a personal fireplace which was pretty cool during the winter monthsx

"Not quite"?? A large fan is NOT an A/C unit! Of course they allow large fans - most kids have two in their windows alone, and others throughout the room. Why on earth would you think they would allow an A/C unit?

You said "The electrical system can’t handle it". And I was proving otherwise. If every single kid has multiple fans going on in their rooms, as I did at Harvard and my son at Yale, then maybe YEAH the system CAN handle it.

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Anonymous wrote:Ridiculous. I went to Hopkins in Baltimore and when I was a sophomore, I found a used window AC unit in the paper and bought it from the money I made in my on campus job. I paid about $40 for an old AC unit, put it in my window and had AC in my room. I left the dorms in my junior year and moved it to the apartment I had. I was popular, and had friends that would come over on hot days to play cards in my room since I had the AC unit. After I graduated, I stayed in my apartment for another few years because I had a job down at Hopkins Hospital. When I finally left, I was moving out to the DC suburbs to take a job in the DC area. I donated my window AC unit to my old roommates because the condo I was moving to had central AC.

Now, window AC units are cheap. You can get one that will be enough for a college/apartment bedroom for about $150. If you want one for a bigger area like a living room, it's like $300. If the kid has roommates, they can chip in to buy one new. Or, the rich private college parents can buy one. There is no reason that the university needs to pay for central AC which will be significantly more costly for the university than window units for the kids who really want/need one, especially in an area that doesn't need one more than a few weeks out of the year.

You sound extremely out of touch. A/C units are not allowed in these old dorms! The electrical system can’t handle it. I would have no problem buying a window unit for my kid to use in an un-airconditioned dorm - if we were allowed to!

Not quite. They do allow large fans. I had one in my circa 1800s for at
Harvard law and DD was handed one free at Yale when she signed in. Yes it’s miserable in septet and May but I did have a personal fireplace which was pretty cool during the winter monthsx

"Not quite"?? A large fan is NOT an A/C unit! Of course they allow large fans - most kids have two in their windows alone, and others throughout the room. Why on earth would you think they would allow an A/C unit?

You said "The electrical system can’t handle it". And I was proving otherwise. If every single kid has multiple fans going on in their rooms, as I did at Harvard and my son at Yale, then maybe YEAH the system CAN handle it.

An A/C unit requires far more electricity than fans, even multiple fans. I trust what the school tells us rather than some internet stranger. There is no way older dorms could support an A/C unit in every room. Oh, and congrats on working in your Ivy mentions!

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Anonymous wrote:Ridiculous. I went to Hopkins in Baltimore and when I was a sophomore, I found a used window AC unit in the paper and bought it from the money I made in my on campus job. I paid about $40 for an old AC unit, put it in my window and had AC in my room. I left the dorms in my junior year and moved it to the apartment I had. I was popular, and had friends that would come over on hot days to play cards in my room since I had the AC unit. After I graduated, I stayed in my apartment for another few years because I had a job down at Hopkins Hospital. When I finally left, I was moving out to the DC suburbs to take a job in the DC area. I donated my window AC unit to my old roommates because the condo I was moving to had central AC.

Now, window AC units are cheap. You can get one that will be enough for a college/apartment bedroom for about $150. If you want one for a bigger area like a living room, it's like $300. If the kid has roommates, they can chip in to buy one new. Or, the rich private college parents can buy one. There is no reason that the university needs to pay for central AC which will be significantly more costly for the university than window units for the kids who really want/need one, especially in an area that doesn't need one more than a few weeks out of the year.

You sound extremely out of touch. A/C units are not allowed in these old dorms! The electrical system can’t handle it. I would have no problem buying a window unit for my kid to use in an un-airconditioned dorm - if we were allowed to!

Not quite. They do allow large fans. I had one in my circa 1800s for at
Harvard law and DD was handed one free at Yale when she signed in. Yes it’s miserable in septet and May but I did have a personal fireplace which was pretty cool during the winter monthsx

"Not quite"?? A large fan is NOT an A/C unit! Of course they allow large fans - most kids have two in their windows alone, and others throughout the room. Why on earth would you think they would allow an A/C unit?

You said "The electrical system can’t handle it". And I was proving otherwise. If every single kid has multiple fans going on in their rooms, as I did at Harvard and my son at Yale, then maybe YEAH the system CAN handle it.

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Anonymous wrote:Ridiculous. I went to Hopkins in Baltimore and when I was a sophomore, I found a used window AC unit in the paper and bought it from the money I made in my on campus job. I paid about $40 for an old AC unit, put it in my window and had AC in my room. I left the dorms in my junior year and moved it to the apartment I had. I was popular, and had friends that would come over on hot days to play cards in my room since I had the AC unit. After I graduated, I stayed in my apartment for another few years because I had a job down at Hopkins Hospital. When I finally left, I was moving out to the DC suburbs to take a job in the DC area. I donated my window AC unit to my old roommates because the condo I was moving to had central AC.

Now, window AC units are cheap. You can get one that will be enough for a college/apartment bedroom for about $150. If you want one for a bigger area like a living room, it's like $300. If the kid has roommates, they can chip in to buy one new. Or, the rich private college parents can buy one. There is no reason that the university needs to pay for central AC which will be significantly more costly for the university than window units for the kids who really want/need one, especially in an area that doesn't need one more than a few weeks out of the year.

You sound extremely out of touch. A/C units are not allowed in these old dorms! The electrical system can’t handle it. I would have no problem buying a window unit for my kid to use in an un-airconditioned dorm - if we were allowed to!

Not quite. They do allow large fans. I had one in my circa 1800s for at
Harvard law and DD was handed one free at Yale when she signed in. Yes it’s miserable in septet and May but I did have a personal fireplace which was pretty cool during the winter monthsx

"Not quite"?? A large fan is NOT an A/C unit! Of course they allow large fans - most kids have two in their windows alone, and others throughout the room. Why on earth would you think they would allow an A/C unit?

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Anonymous wrote:I went to college in Connecticut. It would be dumb to retrofit for CAC there. It maybe would have been used two weeks.

What?! It's not only hot in CT two weeks a year.

Yes but idiot college isn’t in session during the summer. You get there the very end of august and leave by mid May.

Anonymous wrote:I can't get over some of these parents! The kids don't care, and if your kid does, send them to a fancy college with all new dorms.

My son's freshman year was in a brand new dorm on campus that was being used as a temporary dorm for students whose dorm was being renovated during the entire school year. It was beautiful...much like a hotel. All common areas and rooms had AC.

At the end of the year, students had the option to stay in that dorm next year or go to the older dorm that had just been renovated (renovation included AC in common areas only). 95% of the students (including DS) went to the old dorm!! Why? Because it had tradition and established friendships. Also, the location of the older dorm was much better...more central and right next to the dining hall.

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Anonymous wrote:Ridiculous. I went to Hopkins in Baltimore and when I was a sophomore, I found a used window AC unit in the paper and bought it from the money I made in my on campus job. I paid about $40 for an old AC unit, put it in my window and had AC in my room. I left the dorms in my junior year and moved it to the apartment I had. I was popular, and had friends that would come over on hot days to play cards in my room since I had the AC unit. After I graduated, I stayed in my apartment for another few years because I had a job down at Hopkins Hospital. When I finally left, I was moving out to the DC suburbs to take a job in the DC area. I donated my window AC unit to my old roommates because the condo I was moving to had central AC.

Now, window AC units are cheap. You can get one that will be enough for a college/apartment bedroom for about $150. If you want one for a bigger area like a living room, it's like $300. If the kid has roommates, they can chip in to buy one new. Or, the rich private college parents can buy one. There is no reason that the university needs to pay for central AC which will be significantly more costly for the university than window units for the kids who really want/need one, especially in an area that doesn't need one more than a few weeks out of the year.

You sound extremely out of touch. A/C units are not allowed in these old dorms! The electrical system can’t handle it. I would have no problem buying a window unit for my kid to use in an un-airconditioned dorm - if we were allowed to!

Not quite. They do allow large fans. I had one in my circa 1800s for at
Harvard law and DD was handed one free at Yale when she signed in. Yes it’s miserable in septet and May but I did have a personal fireplace which was pretty cool during the winter monthsx

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Anonymous wrote:I can just see all this window units falling and hitting people walking by on the heads and killing them.

I've not read a single news story about death caused by AC unit dropping on someone's head. Anywhere. Have you?

Well, if a college were to allow a student to "install" their own unit it is extremely likely it would happen. You need to know what you are doing to install it securely, and then follow rules and not open the window anymore, etc. Lots of dumb shit happens when college kids gather in a dorm room, just because it seemed like fun

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Anonymous wrote:I can just see all this window units falling and hitting people walking by on the heads and killing them.

I've not read a single news story about death caused by AC unit dropping on someone's head. Anywhere. Have you?

Well, if a college were to allow a student to "install" their own unit it is extremely likely it would happen. You need to know what you are doing to install it securely, and then follow rules and not open the window anymore, etc. Lots of dumb shit happens when college kids gather in a dorm room, just because it seemed like fun

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Anonymous wrote:Ridiculous. I went to Hopkins in Baltimore and when I was a sophomore, I found a used window AC unit in the paper and bought it from the money I made in my on campus job. I paid about $40 for an old AC unit, put it in my window and had AC in my room. I left the dorms in my junior year and moved it to the apartment I had. I was popular, and had friends that would come over on hot days to play cards in my room since I had the AC unit. After I graduated, I stayed in my apartment for another few years because I had a job down at Hopkins Hospital. When I finally left, I was moving out to the DC suburbs to take a job in the DC area. I donated my window AC unit to my old roommates because the condo I was moving to had central AC.

Now, window AC units are cheap. You can get one that will be enough for a college/apartment bedroom for about $150. If you want one for a bigger area like a living room, it's like $300. If the kid has roommates, they can chip in to buy one new. Or, the rich private college parents can buy one. There is no reason that the university needs to pay for central AC which will be significantly more costly for the university than window units for the kids who really want/need one, especially in an area that doesn't need one more than a few weeks out of the year.

You sound extremely out of touch. A/C units are not allowed in these old dorms! The electrical system can’t handle it. I would have no problem buying a window unit for my kid to use in an un-airconditioned dorm - if we were allowed to!

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Anonymous wrote:I can just see all this window units falling and hitting people walking by on the heads and killing them.

I've not read a single news story about death caused by AC unit dropping on someone's head. Anywhere. Have you?

Anonymous wrote:I can just see all this window units falling and hitting people walking by on the heads and killing them.