<p>Has anyone ever tried one before? I ask this because I just got to my dorm. I've been spoiled for most of college and always had air conditioning, but won't have one in my very last semester here. Granted it will be hopefully get cooler in the coming weeks, but it's so tempting to get a portable air conditioner. To have an AC installed in my room would bring up the room cost which I'm not willing to do. However a portable air conditioner will be much cheaper. Of course I most likely won't buy one because like I said it's only a few more weeks of hot weather hopefully. Still wanna hear if anyone has tried one before and their experience with it.</p>
<p>Almost no college will allow you to have one. Just get a good fan and point it at yourself and deal with the heat.</p>
<p>what the college allows or doesn’t allow isn’t my concern. i just want to hear other people’s experiences.</p>
<p>What do you mean its not your concern? If most colleges don’t allow them, then almost no one will have an accurate experience of what it will be like.</p>
<p>If you don’t care about the massive fine you’ll be liable to get… go for it.</p>
<p>you guys need to read better. i said i’m interested in hearing experiences. i am not going to be purchasing a portable air conditioner for what will only be a few weeks of warm weather (a semester at most).</p>
<p>it doesn’t matter what colleges allow or don’t allow. they don’t allow drinking, but students still do it. students do whatever they want and face the fines and/or consequences to go with that. at my school they don’t support and don’t want students to use their gaming devices on the school network and yet many students still do it. just because most colleges wouldn’t allow something does not mean students don’t have ‘accurate’ experiences of it.</p>
<p>BP- the fines for things like ACs are sometimes as high as a thousand dollars.</p>
<p>I used one in a dorm room at MSU when I was in a summer program and it was great, until they stormed down the halls and told us we’d have a $500 fine if we continued using it. It’s not like you can hide a unit. You will be caught and fined hundreds. Otherwise, of course putting an AC in a small room makes it quite cool.</p>
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This I did not know. Hmm, I’m going to go check my college list …</p>
<p>My friend has one in an off-campus apartment. It’s really heavy. It also has to be vented through a window (via plastic and duct tape) because it gushes water. It’s really cumbersome to him. IDK, maybe he got a bum one though.</p>
<p>I have one, I’m a PC gamer, so my room runs like 100+ degrees a lot. So, I bought one, it works great!. Mine broke only 1 time and I’ve had it for 3 years.</p>
<p>I’m doing it, me and my roommate are going in on one.</p>
<p>Go to home depot, figure out which one doesn’t suck ass. There are light ones with small exhaust hoses in existence.</p>