Ok so I am super interested in going to Umich if I am accepted, but I am a little concerned because I am from sunny florida and I am worried I won’t survive in the cold. Will I be ok?
We moved from Texas to Ann Arbor 16 years ago and we love living here.
As of the Fall of 2014, there were 560 Floridians attending the University of Michigan, along with 2,428 Californians, 448 Texans, 120 Arizonans, and 30 Hawaiians. Also 3 residents of Guam, 3 residents of the Northern Mariana Islands, and 56 residents of Puerto Rico, as well as 657 from India, 125 from Malaysia, 115 from Singapore, 75 from Mexico, 64 from Thailand, 53 from Indonesia, 38 from Israel, 35 from Saudi Arabia, 22 from the United Arab Emirates, 17 from Vietnam, 15 from Kuwait, 14 from Nigeria, 13 from the Philippines, 12 from Venezuela, 11 from Egypt, 10 from Guatemala, 10 from Jordan, 8 from Bangladesh, 6 from Costa Rica, 6 from Sri Lanka, 5 from Jamaica, 5 from Panama, 5 from Qatar, 4 from Honduras, 3 from Burma/Myanmar, 3 from Trinidad and Tobago, 2 from Bahrain, 2 from Belize, 2 from the Dominican Republic, and 1 apiece from various other countries in sub-Saharan Africa, the Caribbean, and Central America. No doubt I’ve missed some other warm weather locations.
If all those people can cut it in Ann Arbor, so can you.
I’m from Florida 
Was so sick of the heat though so I’m excited for winter up here. So far the autumn weather is incredible.
I grew up in Abu Dhabi. Florida’s wimpy summers resemble our winters! I had no trouble adjusting to Ann Arbor weather. Lost my hair and a few appendages to frostbite, but I lived to tell the tale! 
You lost appendages?
No, I was just be facetious.
Bring a warm down jacket with a hood, warm gloves, and boots. From early October to April it can be below freezing at night and then during the day during December to early April.
There was actually a student in UMN-TC (if I remember correctly) lost appendages due to frostbite last year after drunk and sleeping in the porch outdoors overnight. Eww. :-p
Memo to self: Don’t get drunk and fall asleep on the porch in winter.
Note, however, that winters are colder in Minneapolis than in Ann Arbor. In Minneapolis the average daily low in January is 8 and the average daily high is 24. In Ann Arbor the average daily low in January is 18 and the average daily high is 31. Those are averages; there certainly can be extremely cold days in Ann Arbor and milder days in Minneapolis, but more often than not the cold spells will be colder, longer, and more frequent in Minnesota.
Expect it to be -20 with windchill at times
It’s all about dressing correctly. You will have to learn how to do it.
You won’t die of starvation unless it’s intentional. Even if you under-prepare, there’s plenty places to get more winter clothes.
If my 80 year old prof can survive it, so can you
Update: it was actually another campus of UMN, not TC.
http://minnesota.cbslocal.com/2014/06/10/umd-student-who-suffered-frostbite-gets-new-hand/
Oh, it was the University of Minnesota-Duluth. Duluth is even colder than Minneapolis: average daily high in January, 19, average daily low in January, 2. (At least it’s +2).
Ann Arbor is downright balmy compared to that.
The cold sucks. For different people, it will suck more than for others. My partner is one that will go out without a coat until it’s well under freezing whereas I’m bundled in sweats in anything below 60.
What is worse than the cold though is the lack of sunshine for months on end. The cold, grey winters SUCK. There are a lot of people that go to CAPS because of depression caused by lack of sunlight (and yes, this is a real, documented condition.)
I highly recommend to my southern friends that they invest in a sun lamp. I have one even as a lifelong Michigander and there are some all over campus if you know where to look.
You will survive and you will be fine, but it is important to prepare and lack of sunlight is something most people don’t think about when transitioning.
After freshman year, it might make sense, if you can get the classes you need or want, to attend the spring and summer terms in May through August, which is equivalent to a semester, and then attend the fall semester. You could take the winter semester off when it is cold, gray, and snowy. Ann Arbor and the state of Michigan are beautiful and warm from May to about the last 10 days of October, and then the changing leaves and holiday times are the attractions for the rest of the fall…
I enjoy the winters, like many others in Michigan, as a white blanket of snow is such a beautiful thing:)
At least in Minnesota the sun shines while it’s freezing cold…the gray more than the cold can get to Michiganders, but you’ll enjoy the “difference” if you are adventuresome and then if you don’t like winter you leave 
and work somewhere without seasons but you won’t forget the experience.
I think it will help that you go home for Christmas and possibly spring break. Getting away from the clouds and cold makes it bearable to us Michiganders.