@Ballerina016 We are hardy midwesterners, and nevertheless, all of us in the family tend to underdress for the weather unless we are actually going to be out IN it (walking the dog, skiing, sledding). I bet you’ll be just fine! Layers! Something to protect the ears and hands if it’s below freezing. Have fun!
I checked Boston weather, it’s supposed to warm up into 40s and 50s in the next few days.
If they have a sweater/fleece top or fleece jacket and a windbreaker type jacket they should be fine.
P.s. I doubt stores here will be sold out. For sure if you have a car and go to the Burlington mall or even Natick or maybe even downtown at Eddie Bauer.
@Ballerina016 let me know if you need me to bring an extra pair of gloves to Shabbat dinner. 
That is why I love this forum. Everyone is so helpful. I don’t really worry too much that I will be cold, it is my stubborn child who does not realize that difference. She thinks “fashionable” before “practical”. And parents on FB said they have planned a lot of outdoor activities as well.
We were able to rent a car in Boston for $11 per day @fretfulmother , so we can move around.
Looking at the Boston forecast (and ignoring the snow out the window right now), I don’t think you’ll need boots, hats or gloves. A fleece as mentioned above should be fine. They are calling for rain on Thursday, so you might want to be prepared for wet weather. Where are you planning on driving? If you are staying in Boston and Cambridge, a car can sometimes be a liability. And you’ll pay much more than the rental fee to park it!
Enjoy Boston - it can be beautiful this time of year. If only it would stop snowing!
D and I are very sad that it will be warmer here in Seattle while we’re in Nashville this week. One day it will be close to 80, while in Nashville, we’ll be lucky to see 60 most days. We were so excited to enjoy what we consider summer weather. Boy did Mother Nature get us! The upside is that I went through all my warm weather clothes and discovered that most of them are too big. so I got to clean out my drawers, closet AND storage boxes!
Well, I was wrong about the Linguistics Olympiad. They don’t work with the top 20 to make a team.
The top 8 make up A/B teams that will represent the U.S. in the International Olympiad.
DS received an email from one of the coaches confirming his place & needing to verify he could travel this summer to India!
This is turning into an amazing opportunity for DS!!
I am so excited for him, but… I am having mixed reactions about sending him 1/2 way around the world on his own (My head knows that he will be with the team & coaches but, still my heart is weary as he is my one & only)
Thoughts? Would you guys try to tag along? (not even sure it is possible at this point) It could be a once in a lifetime experience for both of us!
@bookmom7, D16 went on a school trip last year to Australia, Figi, and New Zealand. She had chaperons and teachers but the kids were given some freedoms as well. I say let him go and enjoy. It’s an amazing opportunity that won’t come along again. Even with strife in the world travel is still pretty safe and he will be with adults. I would stay home and trust that I raised him well and that he will be fine.
^^but if you can go and he wouldn’t mind I would tag along 
Congratulations @bookmom7 I would definitely tag alone if I could afford it. This is the way we have seen many places – tagging along for DD’s competitions. I was on a safe side two year ago when she was offered an amazing opportunity to spend her summer in Spain with a host family, but I did not think she was ready so she did not go. But she was only 14 at the time.
@livinginLA - I do think he would be fine & I’m sure they have the trip very structured.
@Ballerina016 - that is another consideration- should I spend the $ vs. thinking all it could go toward college expenses?
@bookmom7: “DS received an email from one of the coaches confirming his place & needing to verify he could travel this summer to India!”
Wowwie, bookmom7. This is just getting better and better. Please do not worry about a student who is being chaperoned outside of the country. On the whole, travel group coordinators and teachers who are acting in conjunction with groups who host students internationally really have a track record for knowing how to keep the kids safe, and monitor for any bumps in the road that may pop up.
The one area of inquiry I would advise you to make: please ask about the emergency contingencies and how well the kids will be instructed as to what to do in such cases (natural and man-made). Ask if the kids will have with them at all times a “partner” with whom they are teamed, and to share with you the protocol for any such contingencies.
I am so happy and excited for your child, @bookmom7.
Non college related. But there is snow. On the 4 of April in NY. This is not right.
@readingclaygirl That is wrong on every level. Boo!! My sisters live in NYC. I will have to check up on them.
@Ballerina016 You’re not the only one whose child thinks ‘fashionable’ before ‘practical’. We just experienced that on our spring break trip, both with warmth of clothing and footwear (I suggested packing athletic shoes for all the walking we’d be doing–oh the horror!!) and now this week with a school trip north that hit colder weather. I guess they will learn!
IMHO one of the main purposes of this thread is to spill anxieties safely so they don’t splash over our DC who have anxieties enough of their own.
Great advice @Waiting2exhale - thanks! I wanted to ‘like’ & ‘find your post helpful’ but,- you know how that goes
As I read more I feel a little better. The team leaders (from UMich & Columbia/ + Carnegie Mellon) have been working with teams for at least 9 years now. So, I do imagine they have this down.
To All: I must make add a caveat to my daughter’s college travels this past weekend, as I had not taken this into account at all: She was with a diversity group, and not merely under the auspices of the college admission’s office.
I think that this adds a different, albeit significant for students of color, dimension to her experience, and quite possibly is not at all reflective of the larger student body.
She is fine, and says the visit and the comments are one component, but that the campus is beautiful and much, much larger than she had ever imagined, and there are pluses and minuses in those columns which will outweigh her interactions with the students who urged her not to enroll.
She also says the students who organized the event, the older students of the group, quite often directed activities and never spoke to any underlying, long-term or simmering issues of tension or dissension between the university and the students of color. (I like to read the campus newspapers for a look at what is going on that rarely gets spoken of on campuses, so while she did not bring a paper for me, she did pay attention for cues on the sociopolitical climate on campus.)
With all of the comments and input you have shared with me, seeking to guide me through guiding her, I thought it important to share this - the prisms through which we view things impacting what comes out on the other side and all.
Your comments are in my tool bag, and will still be used as my daughter goes forward.
Two things further: She did say she realized that bringing students of color together under one heading did not mean that there was any unification of thought regarding identity and affinity, as at one time two students made a comment which made clear that they were in their cultural boat, and she should stay in hers.
One young man, whose parents are from another nation, inquired about her name - an ancient name recognized by many for differing reasons, and asked if anyone ever shortened it and called her something which he spoke to her as familiar to him, a name within his own culture. She smiled and told him that yes, her mother did. He smiled deeply at that and they kind of connected.
I asked if she planned on staying in touch with him, and suggested that maybe she should as he seemed willing to cut across some of the smaller mine-not-yours moments. This lovely daughter of mine got the strangest wink in her eye, and tilted her head back.
“No,” she shook her head with the slightest smile-not-smile, “He was definitely on the prowl.”
That’s my girl.
@Waiting2exhale I’m not a person of color so I can’t comment on that aspect but I can say good for your D for recognizing the motive of that young man.