need advice

How hard is it to walk around campus?
Also, do they have tunnels connecting buildings to use during winter?

mhc48

From the bottom of the hill where the pool and fieldhouse are or from town, to the area where freshman dorms, dining hall and probably most of your classes are is pretty much one long hill. But you don't need to do it all that often. When Case Library is done it'll be like a third to half that hill.

Wynn Hall, the chemical sciences building is connected by tunnels to the other science buildings on campus but mostly I think for convenience rather than weather. Most of the dorms and buildings where classes are held are close and you really don't need tunnels in the winter.

ticklemepink

You'll get used to the hill- most students really go up once or twice a day when they move down the hill. Freshmen don't go up and down much unless they're looking to do physical activities or go into the town. Plus, it's a great exercise!

gellino

Most of the campus is on a plateau on top of the hill. It builds character, though, getting up there after freshman year. I still can picture coming out of class in Feb looking down the hill at my fraternity for lunch thinking the next eight minutes are going to be tough.

mhc48

The reason I know the hill is not as bad as it looks or as it felt to me is that when my daughter and I visited a year and a half ago April, I told her that if she decided to go to Colgate, at least she wouldn't be prey to the tradional freshman fifteen.

And yet, despite club sports and going down the hill to run on the treadmills a couple of times a week (and up afterwards) she still claimed to have gained weight during her freshman year.

Of course, I didn't notice it when she came home, but then fathers are often blind to such things.

(maybe it was the beer?)

gellino

You don't really walk the hill freshman year nearly as much as the next three years, so the hill doesn't help to combat the Freshman 15 (the beer doesn't either).

Colgate13

"tunnels connecting buildings to use during winter?"

If you think that you will need tunnels to get between building, you may want to look at schools farther south.