It definitely depends on where you’re coming from. While Bowdoin is cold, it is a beautiful campus in the snow and there’s a lot to do with ice skating and cross country skiing, etc. Way prettier than the Chicago suburbs. And the kids don’t have to drive in it or shovel their parents’ driveways! The forests are full of pine trees that will be gorgeous with the snow. But, yes, kids need to be open to the whole second semester being pretty cold - they need to bundle up and go out and embrace it.
You’re talking to someone who moved south to Minneapolis from Fargo, and was born in Winnipeg. Also someone who lived out east in the Maritimes, and spent a lot of time in Maine. I maintain that the chill that you get from the North Atlantic beats anything that you get in the midwest, unless you are in extreme places (such as Fargo). It gets in your bones.
Having said that, I miss the ocean. Would move to it in a flash, but wife is not having it. Too gloomy, for her.
@57special well I guess we will see what s19 thinks this coming winter! All of his sophomore friends from Chicago have told him it’s much more reasonable in Maine than in Chicago. Time will tell!