How bad is the weather?

ColgateDad
Tue, 29 Mar 2011 01:12:14 +0000

Autumn is beautiful! Spring is wonderful! The winters, though, are long and cold with lots of snow. Is that beautiful, too? It depends on whether or not you like snow and cold. If you are a hothouse flower, you will wilt in the cold winters. But why should you? There are four seasons and you might as well live some of your life experiencing all of them. I grew up in the Northeast, so I loved snow and skiing and was used to snow. But, students from California, for example, are always worried they will not survive cold winters. Yes, they can get tiring and you do need warm clothes, but it’s kind of fun in a way. And you’re going to be studying and doing research a lot of the time, so why worry if it’s snowing or cold outside? If you need a warm climate, though, I’d avoid any college or university from Maine to the Midwest. But that would eliminate 2/3 of the good colleges in America, so why do that?