Staying Warm This Winter If you are a freezing college student, you might need some tips on how to keep warm as you trek back and forth to and from campus as well as heat up your shabby little apartment. Especially if you are a freshman, out of your parents big and warm house for the first time, you might need some extra tips on keeping the cold out.
Outdoors Hopefully, you are versed enough in wrapping up outdoors as you go to and from school. However, if you’ve always ridden to school on a bus or car, you didn’t need to bundle up too tightly in the past. If you now walk to campus, your dressing might need to change. Don’t forget hats, gloves, and scarves. When facing freezing temperatures or gusts of snow, your extremities need extra protection. Without that added protection you are much more likely to get colds, coughs, the flu, and other miserable winter ailments.
Dressing for the Day Make sure to wear several thinner layers. College classrooms tend to vary in temperature from room to room and building to building and you will be constantly taking on and off layers to accommodate each place. So avoid wearing a t-shirt and a huge coat, because you will probably need something inbetween at some point in the day. So layer up on your University of Miami apparel including t-shirt, sweatshirt, and sweatpants to keep warm all day long!
Your Apartment You may live in a small, drafty apartment that lets in lots of frigid winter air. Some cheap apartments don’t come with heating or have broken down ancient heating systems that don’t fulfill their duty. It helps to keep doors shut (even bedroom and bathroom doors) and cover windows with curtains or other forms of insulation. If worse comes to worse, you may even need to roll up towels or other pieces of cloth and line the bottoms of any doors or windows that let in drafts.
You in your Apartment There are also situations when your roommates create the problem. Some students find themselves with roommates from cold climates that get hot too easily and don’t like the heat on. Others end up with stingy roommates who don’t want to pay for gas. If you don’t get to heat up your apartment the
traditional way, keep yourself warm by doing the following: wear sweaters, socks, hats and scarves around the house. Heat up hot water bottles or fill socks with rice, tie/sew the end and throw it in the microwave for two or three minutes. These become personal space heaters. Eat warm foods like soup and drink hot beverages to warm yourself from the inside out. Make sure you keep yourself fed, as your body will need the energy to fight off the cold. Remember, that there are plenty of ways to keep warm during the winter! Stay warm and stay stylish too by sporting your custom University of Miami apparel!
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