Katy Roberts , Columnist

Yale Was Great but Summer Tours Were a Waste

August 30, 2012 at 10:31 PM UTC

Katy Roberts is an editor for Bloomberg Opinion. She previously worked at the New York Times, serving as national editor and editor of the op-ed page and Week in Review (now Sunday Review).

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During my freshman year at Middlebury College, I remember a classmate complaining to me as we walked across campus on a particularly bitter January morning: “I knew it was going to be cold. I just didn’t know it was going to be this cold.”

She was from Southern California, and the one visit she made to the wilds of Vermont before starting college was in mid-July after her junior year of high school.