<p>Buy cotton sweaters and a down jacket. Get a good pair of gloves for walking outside, a thinner pair for driving (so you can grip the wheel/adjust controls better), and a ski cap for long walks outside. Wear layers. If you can find a car with heated seats get it. And be sure you get a nice down comforter for your dorm. Space heaters are also your friend as long as your college allows them.</p>
<p>I actually find the dorm heating to be almost unbearably hot during the winter, so the down comforter/space heater might not be necessary. Of course, you college may also be more energy efficient.</p>
<p>You definitely won't need a space heater. Walking into a dorm is like walking into an oven. We sleep with our window open even in January (in NH). Course we're northerners, but still, that place is HOT</p>
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<p>Will you stop saying that. Just because Ann Arbor has no winter doesn't make winter coats sucky.
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<p>Ann Arbor has a winter</p>
<p>Yea I know, why would this person say Ann Arbor has no winter lol, DOES HE/SHE THINK ANN ARBOR IS IN FLORIDA LOL. </p>
<p>Logic states that the closer you are to Canada, the colder it is in the winter. </p>
<p>Logic goes a long way.</p>
<p>Get a winter coat. Trust me. When it was -40F outside, a fleece wouldn't cut it. It was my heavy duty winter coat on top of that fleece that kept me warm.</p>
<p>Also, get some waterproof (and snowproof) boots to wear around. Timberlands are good. Get good gloves and wear thick socks as well. Quality is important-Usually if you cheap out you will still be cold. You get what you pay for...</p>
<p>When was it ever -40?</p>
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<p>Logic states that the closer you are to Canada, the colder it is in the winter.</p>
<p>Logic goes a long way.
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<p>I've stated it before. My definition of winterless: any place where the probability of a white Xmas is less than one. Even Montreal is subtropical to me.</p>
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<p>Logic states that the closer you are to Canada, the colder it is in the winter.</p>
<p>Logic goes a long way. </p>
<p>I've stated it before. My definition of winterless: any place where the probability of a white Xmas is less than one. Even Montreal is subtropical to me.
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<p>well then the op should have nothing to worry about, because (according to your definition of winterless) Boston is winterless.</p>
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<p>Never, maybe extremely rarely if you include windchill.</p>
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<p>I still advocate having some sort of coat that protects again rain and wind...
The 3 in 1 suggested earlier sounds like a good compromise, especially since many people aren't accustomed to the kind of "cold" one might encounter in the North East.</p>
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<p>Several times where I lived in Upstate NY. They usually delayed or closed the schools when the actual temp dropped below -30F or the windchill dropped below -40F, which was quite a few times.</p>
<p>Don't listen to the person who answered your question earlier; they have no idea where I lived and were therefore misinforming you.</p>
<p>At what altitude were you living Cuse0507? I know lots of people like to pretend the thermometer reaches -40 several times a year in places like Montreal and Toronto, when in reality it never does (and rarely ever with windchill). It's not frequent even in my hometown (which does fit my criterion of having a winter), especially in recent years.</p>
<p>im lucky, at the end of the year, they just put out all of the unclaimed stuff from lost and found for people to take, i got a good pair of nylon shorts, a nationals t-shirt, and a columbia jacket, im happy.</p>
<p>I've lived in the Chicago area my whole life and I'm still not used to the cold weather. To me, it doesn't matter too much what kind of coat you wear. If it's really cold, you'll feel it no matter what. The big puffy jackets are nice, the 3 in 1's i agree aren't too bad either. </p>
<p>But I mean for the most part, you feel the cold no matter what. You can't get away from it. You just have to deal with it.</p>
<p>Well, there's always the process of acclimatization. If you dress up too quickly and heat up your living quarters too much your body will have a harder time adapting to the temperature outside (it works the other way around too). I think that's one of the problem of many people who are afraid of the cold.</p>
<p>Interesting theory. This probably helps to explain why I get less and less tolerant of winter every year. I heat my room to 77 degrees using a space heater (I have a clock with a thermometer on it so I know how hot it usually gets) when it's cold out.</p>
<p>Do you abuse AC in the summer too?</p>
<p>/can barely go outside in the sun since I got AC installed.</p>
<p>EDIT: 77F = 25C, holy that's way too hot for inside. I was outside in 21C (68-69F) and it was boiling in the sun (yeah, the sun makes a big difference, 70F is otherwise confortable).</p>
<p>Actually I rarely run the AC in the summer. I keep my place around 77-78 in the summer, using only a low-setting fan when it gets too hot. I can tolerate heat pretty well, just not cold.</p>
<p>Any coat is good, and if its a lighter winter coat, wear a couple hooded sweatshirts underneath. The more important thing is to have a good hat, gloves, and scarf...they're lifesavers when its windy. This is assuming you're not outside for long periods of time, just walking to class</p>
<p>And this is from someone who has experienced -40 weather quite often in Fargo, ND.....</p>