<p>Let’s compare schools located near major earthquake fault lines. </p>
<p>Having grown up in California, I can tell you that earthquakes really aren’t that bad. I can count on one hand the number of times I’ve been woken up/moved to a door way as a result of an Earthquake. Plus, after the 1994 Northridge quake, I’m pretty sure building codes were revised and for the most part things are safe.</p>
<p>Again, I think a lot of it’s based on what people are comfortable with, or have grown up with. Earthquakes are no big deal to me, yet I find winters in Michigan tough. My friends from Michigan don’t mind winter/hockey, but over the summer, there was a 3.8 quake or something like that and they freaked out. YMMV</p>
<p>“Sorry mom and dad, I am not going to go Harvard because it gets cold in January…” You guys are forgetting the last part of the statement - it ends “… I’m going to Stanford instead.”</p>
<p>How about this one. I like four seasons. I am chosing a school that is located in a region that gives me that option. People who consider living in colder climates as being the equivalent of living in a region with “bad weather” just don’t get it. Not everyone considers a warm year round climate ideal. To each his own.</p>
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<p>That’s exactly the point. Some people find weather important. Some don’t. But when there’s an argument where UM is losing in the weather category, you try to invalidate the category. </p>
<p>Now you’re saying to each his own. It seems to me like you lost the argument about invalidating the category so now you change the argument to some people like Michigan’s weather. I’ll give you one thing, its true that some people like Michigan weather. But you sure or persistent in trying to make UM appear to be “better”.</p>
<p>I would expect, on a board for UM, that the regular posters support UM. </p>
<p>Yes? Why is this a surprise? </p>
<p>Yeah, I refused to consider going to school in any place where I could wear a t-shirt all year round. I can’t fault kids for taking weather into consideration, but it seems to me that the panic over snow is overblown on CC. </p>
<p>This conversation has degenerated. U Michigan Honors College says I.</p>
<p>It’s an honors program within LSA, not a College.</p>