<p>I heard that during the winter Case experiences feet and feet of snow. How does this affect campus life?</p>
<p>I hope that other people post on this, but I think it greatly affects the Case campus life. However, I feel like it makes the times that are warm that much better. When people are out, doing things, playing volleyball, lying in the sun, going for runs. It feels like a really vibrant college, but when it's cold out, it's a lot more dreary and people are inside. I think it's really good for fall semester because students go in and study more closer to finals. However, in the spring, it's the opposite. Winters definitely hinder the social scene in my opinion.</p>
<p>I think it kind of depends. For the most part, the campus is a lot more vibrant when its warmer. Still my friends and I love going out and having fun in the snow when there's alot of it. It's also always nice to walk over to starbucks and hang out in there on a colder day.
Most of the people I know are pretty social during both the warmer and colder months, but it tends to be a different kind of social, if that makes any sense. When its cold and snowy, its more a chilled out kind of scene, and people mostly just want to relax. When its warm, you'll see a lot of people outside playing frisbee, basketball, volleyball, or whatever it may be.</p>
<p>ps. I never let the cold stop me from hitting up a party.</p>
<p>Me neither, but I feel like for the majority of campus, people tend to stick inside when it gets cold. I was generalizing.</p>
<p>The cold can get kind of miserable after awhile, but I still love it here. Snow days are (or at least our one snow day was) awesome. And it really does make you appreciate nice weather. I feel like winter hinders my walk to class (or makes it less "fun") more than it affects my social life.</p>
<p>I'd also say it depends where you live right now, if you're from the MidWest, i.e. North East Ohio, Chicago, Indiana, Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Upstate New York even, the winters are pretty much uniform; WELCOME TO THE SNOW/RUST BELT! </p>
<p>Freshman year (2006-2007) we got a snow day. 36 inches of snow in 18 hours. THere were tons of snowball fights...and...uhm...some explicit snow creations, and NO CLASSES, so, every one was out having fun. </p>
<p>All in all, winters are just that, winters, I'm from Detroit, so winters here are like winters at home. Lots of snow, longer than people expect, and cold. But that doesn't mean kids just hide under blankets for 4 months until April. You make do, and you get used to it</p>
<p>My S is current junior and intends to look at grad schools w/o winters, as he has had enough, especially this winter in Cleveland.</p>
<p>Cleveland and Case average just under 50 inches of snow each season. If you go 20 miles east, the snow belt averages 100 inches during the season. However, cities in the north are much better prepared to handle the snow than cities that only occasionally experience significant snow events. For example, a 5 inch snowfall will cripple Washington, DC, but people in Cleveland, Chicago, Buffalo, etc. will go about their business.</p>
<p>Cleveland is quite cloudy from December through February, but during the summer Cleveland receives more sunshine that San Diego. On average, Cleveland averages about five days a year with temperatures 90 or above.</p>
<p>P.S. The 5 days above 90 don't even matter, unless you're going to spend the summers there. Furthermore I don't even want it to be hot since most dorms and apartments (at least, apartments students would rent) don't have AC.</p>