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<p>I spent the summer in Chicago once, thought it wasn’t that bad. …Also I’m pretty sure almost all UChicago buildings have air conditioning, which may be less true at Brown/Columbia.</p>
<p>Not much difference. What do you expect? All are in warm humid climates in the summer.</p>
<p>I spent the summer at UChicago and it wasn’t unpleasant at all! As a matter of fact, I had a great time there. The weather is perfect, the dinning hall has pretty good food (not great), I made good friends (no the kids aren’t weird), there were activites planned for each day/on the weekends so you were never bored. Also, they give you a lot of freedom. Me and my friends were up playing ping pong and pool til 5 in the morning. We went to the lake to sun tan/swim. Went downtown to go shopping. You’re allowed in the opposite sexes room. And I didn’t find the class I took very hard (received a 98) and I got 3.3 credits for it!</p>
<p>Can’t compare it to Brown or Colombi a because I have no experience with those, although I did hear that the Brown summer program is very fun.</p>
<p>Point is, summer at UChicago is NOT unpleasant. I also did summer at Johns Hopkins at that was unpleasant. But UChicago was a great time.</p>
<p>It is not uncommon to have unpleasantly high humidity in both New York and Chicago during the summer season. Providence might be a bit milder since it’s further north. Walking around the concrete canyons of Manhattan on a hot humid July or August day is no fun at all. Why do you think all roads leading to the Long Island beaches are packed on summer nights.</p>
<p>hahahahahaha</p>
<p>Always amusing to see Brown and Columbia uttered in the same breath.</p>
<p>More different schools it would be hard to find, one with no required classes . . . the other with a dedicated and famous core curriculum. </p>
<p>Perhaps there are a handful of students who could thrive equally weloll under either curricular regimen . . . but for almost everybody else, one system would be much more in line with a student’s skills aptitudes and capabilties than the other.</p>
<p>But I guess if student performance is much less important than prestige, they are a wash.</p>
<p>Rhode Island has great beaches.</p>
<p>I’m from Hyde Park originally (where U of C is), and because of the trees and Jackson Park, it stays much, much cooler than other parts of the city. Plus, the lake helps cools things off a lot.</p>
<p>Chicago has nice beaches too.</p>
<p>I stayed in Hyde Park last summer in an apartment with no air conditioning, and outside of a day or two it was just fine.</p>
<p>Chicago is gorgeous in the summer.</p>
<p>Oak Street Beach, Chicago. Great. Sit on the sand and look one way at Lake Michigan, and look the other way and see skyscrapers.</p>
<p>I live in New York and have grandparents in both Chicago and Rhode Island. I’ve visited both places during the summer and I can honestly say, the summers in NY, RI, and the Windy City are pretty much the same!</p>