Pitt-Greensburg’s summer housing has students living without A/C in extreme heat(Snowflake Alert!)

TribLIVE ^ | July 24, 2019 | Megan Tomasic

[ravenwolf]

My thermo goes past 90 every day even with my window fan on. Up

[crusty old prospector]

My dorm at Texas Tech didn’t have any air conditioning. Those dorms that did have it cost extra. We just stuck a box fan in the window for the last few weeks of summer.

[ravenwolf]

When I was eleven years I worked in the fields in 90to 95
heat we never had electricity until I was in my teens and
no one had air conditioning, not even a swamp cooler.

So I guess just let them whine.

[HotHunt]

I grew up in the desert. I like cactus and the barren look. And the dry conditions.

I retired to north central Florida from Arizona because my wife is from South Carolina and Florida. I like the green, but with it comes lots of rain and humidity. With that comes lots of critters and bugs. And discomfort when it's hot.

We raise beef cattle so we need the rain for the grass to grow for the cows to graze on.

This will be my last stop because of my age and my wife's family cemetery is on our land.

But if I had my druthers, my end game would be in Arizona.

[sparklite2]

I love the desert, too, especially the
High Desert like Joshua tree. I moved
to Florida to be near my son and found
an affinity for geckos, rain, and critters.
Here I’ll stay.

[MrEdd]

Get some credit hours elsewhere and then enter without ever living in the dorms.

When I was in college I lived in an older but recently remodeled apartment building where I had a two room suite and full kitchen for 2/3 the cost of a tiny shared dorm room.

Really the thing about the school that ticked me off most wasn’t overpriced dormitories, it was limited how many hours I was allowed to CLEP out of. If you already know the material then you already know the material.

[HotHunt]

I was a road racer in my younger days and ran lots of 10ks and marathons. I learned to run long-distance in Arizona and New Mexico.

Florida, where I live now is the only place I've ever lived where I couldn't run for very far. Too hot and oppressive humidity. I'm retired now and just walk. But working on my farm daily is a mess. Sometimes I have to change clothes a couple of times a day because I will be soaked to my underwear and down to my socks.

But in the Southwest, I could run for miles and never get wet and feel comfortable. My sweat would evaporate as soon as it hit my skin. I would have sheets of salt on my temples and upper body when I'd finish a run. My t-shirts would be almost stiff from the salt when I finished but they were dry.

I remember going to Lake Havasu to water ski with a friend who lived there. We never took towels because you didn't need them. You'd dry off naturally in a few minutes. Great fun.

[CdMGuy]

Laughing my butt off. Grew up in the Bronx living on the third floor of a five story walk-up. No one had air conditioning. We did not know the meaning of the word except that a limited number of restaurants were air conditioned. Even if there was such a thing as a window A/C unit, each apartment only had two 15 amp fuses.

The first cooling we got was an 8 inch diameter GE rotating fan. Then we got a window exhaust fan for the kitchen. It could be switched to incoming air. I used to sit right in front of it basking in the blowing air.

[Some Fat Guy in L.A.]

I grew up in the Burgh, southeast suburbs. Never had AC. I had casement windows that opened outward - would set up a fan to blow out one window which created a circulation and kept things bearable. And yes we had hot spells back then.

[Yaelle]

Girls in the girls’ shower... as far as I knew...

[octex]

The NYT employees would walk out of the building in NYC if the a/c was shut down!