<p>Living in Chicago if you are from a warm place will require an investment in a suitable jacket, shoes, and long underwear. (You also need hats, scarves, gloves, etc. but S got plenty of these from extended family as Christmas presents). Plenty of kids from FL and other warm weather states attend UC every year and somehow manage to cope. Its not like, as a student, you have to shovel the snow yourself. You do get to have snowball fights, though, followed by hot chocolate in the dining hall.</p>