Mine have a removable liner. They’re very warm.
Bean boots come with different insulation types. I got DS the ones with Thinsulate since he is just wearing them to walk to class, etc., and doesn’t have to spend extended amounts of time outdoors. No need for Goretex in his case. I also got him a set of the sheepskin liners for extra comfort. He likes those. He is in Cleveland where it gets plenty cold and he says they are very warm.
DD has the shearling lined ones and wears them all over. I got DS the thinsulate ones to replace his old timberland ones this year. His feet tend to run hotter than DDs.
Cakeisgreat - yes. Ask for the reimbursement for the medical expenses and your hotel fees. They will gladly pay in lieu of defending a legal claim.
@ct1417 We must have gone to the same school! I thought traying on Libe Slope was insane and I don’t remember ever doing it, but then I also thought Bean boots were ugly so I never wore them. Until I got old enough to realize that they are really watertight. I got the pull-on kind, and my S16 likes them so much he has taken them over. So now I’m back to my hiking boots which aren’t as good, but then I’m not really tromping through much snow these days.
@crowlady – we wore Bean boots in HS so while they are ugly, I just carried on when I got to college. My calves never recovered from the hikes UP Libe Slope and to this day, I cannot wear skinny jeans or any of the narrow-legged jeans & cords. The winter turned me off turtlenecks forever, other than when I am out walking for exercise.
I wear Sorels when shoveling snow but they are too bulky for driving.
I didn’t have an opinion of winter or snow until I spent my first year in Ithaca. I really do not like winter or snow and am hoping we end up with rain to wash away the current accumulations so that I can return to my favored footwear: Tod’s loafers w/o socks. (Since I live in Fairfield county, I realize the odds are against me…)
@crowlady and @CT1417
My daughter is at your alma mater as a Freshman and boy it really snows out there.
Since we are from sunny SoCal and no real winter experience, we researched what kind of winter wear she will need. We bought her 2 LL Bean boots (water proof with traction), the other pair are full length boots with insulation, North Face fleece and light/medium Down jacket and rain jacket. Just recently before she went back this second semester, we bought her a heavy full lenght Marmot down coat. I think somebody on this thread recommended those.
My daughter and her schoolmates actually think they’re cute.
Heh, I grew up in Florida and Tennessee, so was generally unprepared for the whole winter thing. Snow was something you visited. Now I have one son who likes it so much he chose to go to school in Rochester (due to get 11.5 inches tonight). S16 on the other hand was thrilled to read in a college pamphlet today “Average temperature 73 degrees.”
cakeisgreat, your insurer may ask if the injury was the result of an accident, car or otherwise. They will also ask if it is the result of sports injury or work injury. This is so THEY can subrogate the claim to the ‘responsible’ party. The school’s insurance might pay your insurance, but they rarely will ask for your OOP, including the deductible unless you ask them to do it. That is one way.
D went with the LL Bean Gortex and thinsulate boot too. Being a stranger to snow, she figured the warmer and dryer the better. She also has a pair of LL Bean Mocs she wears when it’s not quite cold or snowy enough for the boots.
Ok I will definitely look at the bean boots then…thanks everyone!!!
Snow has not been a problem for my son at his school, although he did have flurries the other day. They do get snow where he is, but he says that boots are not needed. Just gloves and a jacket.
Right now, he is in the midst of selecting his housing for next school year. This should not be difficult, but we get the impression that the school is making it that way. First, there has been little or no communication regarding selection. Just one or two e-mails. Second, he falls under several categories from student-athlete to honors, so he is unsure when he will select because various categories select at different times. Third, until the other day, he had not talked with his friends to see if they were living together.
Always an adventure.
@momreads – hopefully he can choose with the earliest category in which he falls under!
The housing process doesn’t start until March for DS but he is going to live in his fraternity house next year (and the year after) so it doesn’t require much from him. The fraternity house is part of university housing, but he just has to go online and indicate that’s where he’s living and then the fraternity confirms on their end. The fraternity has its own process for assigning rooms and I’m pretty sure it’s just by seniority. I believe all the rooms in the house are singles.
Wow, @momreads, that seems to early. I don’t think D picks until March. I think all kids make the process more complicated than it needs to be. Who do I live with? Which building? Which room? Does it really matter? Maybe the who because a neat person would be driven crazy by d, but the where? Eh, not so much.
Although sophomore housing is still a dorm room, junior/senior is an apartment. I may start hitting rummages this spring/summer in search of kitchen goods. Oldest will probably be moving and getting her own place this year, so I’ll have a couple of kitchens that’ll need to be furnished on the cheap.
D called last night - lost her wallet. By this morning, two people had messaged her that they found her credit card and ID. Apparently it was crazy windy in Philadelphia yesterday & the wallet contents were blown a couple blocks away. I’ll be helping her today with cancelling/replacing a few other items. She was pretty upset and teary last night - it was a good opportunity to counsel about the unending hassles of life. This is a pain, but totally fixable.
My son has been in the throes of housing selection for a while now – requests were due in December and they announced assignments (or lack thereof) last week. Few students were happy, as there is limited space in the highly desirable on-campus apartments supposedly reserved for sophomores. My son apparently worked with his group of friends to go to the housing office and then submit a request for changes so they could be together somewhere if not in the apartments. I’m pleased that 1) he’s got a big group of friends (I think there are 14 of them, so no surprise they couldn’t be placed together) and 2) he’s doing all this without complaining to me or expecting me to do anything. I think they were spoiled by the choices they could make as frosh that are not available to them as sophomores – priority goes down the longer you are there. There are plenty of university-owned options on and near campus so I’m not worried and I think they’ll be ready for off-campus when the time comes.
At D’s school, sophomores definitely get the short end of the stick. Freshman are housed on central campus in some of the newest and nicest dorms. D’s dorm literally resembles a well appointed ski lodge complete with oversized leather sofas, lots of glass and a big stone fireplace. Even the common area kitchen has lovely cabinets and stainless steel appliances. After freshman year, it’s a lottery system based on seniority - so seniors have first choice, followed by juniors, then sophomores. Hence, sophomore get stuck in the less desirable dorms.
One daughter will be living in the sorority house across the street from where she lives now, so very little change. I haven’t heard about the other child, who has made plans to live with two different kids who have now dropped out of school. Freshmen mostly live in a ‘village’ with apartment style suites, but the sophomores (also required to live on campus) have a number of other choices. She could live in her sorority house (apartment) but it is about 5 miles from campus so she doesn’t want that (she has 6 am practices in the fall).
This really is one I’ll allow her to handle. Most of the options cost about the same.
Got DS Bean Boots back in August as a going-away-to-college present. Boy, has he gotten use out of them this winter! The housing selection process for sophomore year is just getting started. Freshman had a meeting about the process in the dorm last week, but the students don’t have to turn in their preferences until the end of the month. He will find out in mid-March.