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Layer. Isaac Stein ’12, currently a student at the University of Chicago, suggests putting on layer after layer of whatever you can find that is clean. “Clean is meant as anything that doesn’t smell as if something died on it,” described Stein.
Get pumped up. In order to get in his game mentally, Stein “wakes up to both disco and gangsta rap.” In his mind, “the outside might be cold, but not as cold as a grill full of ice.”
Fight through the day. One way Stein suggests trying to tolerate sub-zero temperatures is picturing yourself fighting for a noble cause. “If the History Channel is any indicator, the Eastern Front likely involved trudging through the snow and watching your friend attempting to smoke with a backdrop of high winds and concrete. Sounds like my Wednesday.”
Find your inner Sylvester Stallone. What could make walking through the snow all day for months any worse? Nothing. What could make it better? Rocky IV. Stein suggests that you “try to emulate Rocky IV, even if that only means going to the gym to beat up a few punching bags. That’s about as good as it gets, short of a training montage of chopping wood and wearing leather jackets on the Russian steppe.”
