Baby, It's Cold Outside

A lot of my students tell me they can’t go anywhere “too cold” for college.  I certainly get that the climate in Southern California is pretty amazing; I moved out here from Pennsylvania over eight years ago for college and haven’t moved back!  But that doesn’t mean you should automatically cross every college off your list where the temperature drops below 50 degrees.  If one of my students from the class of 2009 had decided that, he never would have gotten the opportunity to join 4,000 of his fellow Badgers at the University of Wisconsin at Madison in a snowball fight that set a world record for number of participants and was featured on the Today Show.

This doesn’t mean that every student has to apply to colleges in the frigid Midwest, though believe me, I’ll try to make you if you're one of my students.  But it does mean you should keep an open mind when considering colleges.  Even putting one college on your list that’s outside of your comfort zone just might snowball into an amazing four-year experience (ba-dum-ching!).