Their last party was Friday night at the Reynolds Club according to the OWeek schedule, so I guess I can’t stalk them using the OWeek schedule anymore, lol
Didn’t get a phone call in, but managed to text a few times and got some one liners:
Wednesday:
Me: How’s it going there?
S: Things are good
Me: What are you doing now?
S: Chilling in the common room
Thursday:
Me: What’d you think of the Aims of Education Address?
S: Very much wonder and skepticism
Me: But there is probably a lot more to aims of an education than only wonder and skepticism, don’t you think? Although those are 2 excellent aims
Him:
@JBStillFlying I was at BJ last night. The ground lights looks amazing and even my husband noticed the sod. I had to point out the individual thermostat to DS. Thanks for making me look good.
the thermostats don’t do anything new. radiators in BJ have always had a knob to control intensity, but you had to open the cover. now you can change it without opening the cover (this is useful if you want to leave things on top of the radiator).
afaik the only dorm that allows you to actually control your room temperature is South.
“you can change it without opening the cover (this is useful if you want to leave things on top of the radiator).”
Dumb question, but understand I’ve never lived in a house with a radiator… doesn’t the top of the radiator get very hot? When we were moving in, I told my son that cover over the radiator was likely to get hot and he probably shouldn’t put anything there in case it melts. Not true? Can you leave things there without expecting any damage?
@milee30 Definitely not a dumb question! My daughter hasn’t had any problem with things melting or even getting overly warm on the radiator cover. She’s used it as a place for picture frames, vases, a succulent, books, her phone, and who knows what else. The only issue she has with the set up is when a strong breeze through the open window blows lightweight items off the shelf.
Two of our earlier places had radiated heat. At one point were able to upgrade to a house that had lovely radiator covers most likely left over from the original owners. They wouldn’t get hot, but they got a bit warm. Our cat loved them and would spend hours sleeping on comfy warm painted metal LOL.
Even in 1963 the radiator in my room in BJ was a venerable antique. It produced a mellow uniform friendly heat compared to the gas heater in my room at home, whose dangerous flame was always threatening to go out and was too hot up close and too cold in the far corners. That rad was my first experience of central heating and it was a good one. I have never had it again in any of the later places I have lived. Fan-forced hot air gets the job done in a northern clime, but it is not the same. It doesn’t give nearly the sense of well-being as one had lying in bed in BJ and imagining all that warm water proceeding from a subterranean central boiler through a labyrinth of piping to every room in the place. Long live rads! It is another reason to prefer the older dorms to the new ones.
Most of the Hyde Park apartments are “vintage”. In other words, they are old (some of them were built in 1890’s) and almost all of them use radiator heat. It is a relatively cheap way to provide heat for a lot of people in an apartment building. Many third or fourth year students that move out of dorm and stay in HP apartments will have a taste of radiator heat for the first time in their lives.
The loud clank can be thunderous at times. But there are HVAC specialists that can deal with these vintage systems.
Someone can actually do the math on this but get the impression that the O-Week incidence of alcohol-related ER visits is remaining in proportion to class size. Even if not, however, the extremely small number makes a comparison almost meaningless. Currently - and assuming a distinct student for each visit - we are looking at .3% of the class which is pretty small. If it, say, doubles - that’s .6%; again, very small. No big whoop.
They might have had cookouts last year too. We all knew as soon as they introduced Dollar Milkshakes on the Quad that things would go downhill :))
