Winter
- "I'm from Redondo Beach, California, and my first year here I froze to death the day it snowed in November. They preserved my body and let it thaw out in April, when we finally saw the sun for the first time in five months. Some of the students were quite unused to the sun by this point, so they burst into flames. We use their ashes to create a special Ohioan sunscreen to protect us from the sun for the few months we actually see it." —si_end_ght (2005 Aug 2) [1]
Winter in Oberlin is long (the last snow of the '04-'05 school year was in late April). It has relatively mild snowfall, particularly in comparison to places in the Snow Belt. Generally, it will warm up a few days after each snowfall and melt all the snow, or it won't be that cold anyway and there will just be slush everywhere. However, Oberlin is supposedly colder on average than Moscow.
Every year winter will fake out students at least once. Usually a few weeks into the spring semester, in February, it will get warm for a few days, and the winter-acclimated students will throw on shorts and T-shirts and play outside, only to have their hopes for an early spring crushed by falling temperatures right when they think they can put away their heavy clothing.
On the upside, the big snowfalls usually mean there'll be interesting snow sculptures dotting the campus for a few days...
