As temperatures outdoor change, students in residence halls often find themselves experiencing problems similar to Goldilocks with rooms being too hot, too cold or just right.

Drizzle is expected Monday with possible thunderstorms after noon and occasional showers and thunderstorms in the evening through Tuesday, according to the National Weather Service.

It will be partly cloudy Wednesday through Friday evening with rain showers possible Saturday. Temperatures for the week will have lows in the upper 30s to lower 40s and highs in the lower 50s to 60s, the Service said.

With this temperature drop, some students said they’ve been experiencing problems with cold rooms, while others experienced extreme blast of heat.

“It’s been a little cold actually; I wish I had gloves,” said Brandon Fett, a sophomore political science major and Taylor Hall resident. “I can feel the heat coming out of the vents, but the room itself is still cold.”

Fett said he has just a regular jacket here and plans on picking up gloves and hats when he goes home for Thanksgiving Break.

Fett said he lived in Thomas Hall last year and the temperature was better.

“I don’t really remember it being this cold,” he said. “It seemed warmer, but that was a year ago, so who knows.”

Rachel Larsen, a freshman elementary education major and Andrews Hall resident, said, “The heating has been fine. I have been hot a couple of times and had to open windows. As far as clothes, I have some sweaters here but I’ll probably get more clothes when I go home for Thanksgiving.”

Some students say heating does not work in their residence hall room, but it has not been a problem.

“Our heat right now isn’t working at all, but it’s a pretty good temperature. It’s not cold or anything,” said Candice Aaron, a freshman family and consumer science major and Carman Hall resident. “It gets warm at night so we don’t really care as much.”

Similarly, other students have been dealing with unusual temperature problems, which have been manageable.

Rebecca Hitchcock, a junior art education major, transferred from the College of Dupage and has spent her first semester living in Pemberton Hall.

“I have to say it’s a better hall than others I have seen.”

“Its been comfortable; we were able to fix our heat, but we have put in a work order.”

Hitchcock says the heat never turns off in her room, but “on is better than off” since windows can always be opened.

“If we take pliers, we can still change it (the thermostat),” she said. “The screw is stripped because it’s old, but that will take no time for them to fix.”

Residents of some halls feel the heating and cooling have been working fine all year.

“We have pretty good control with our thermostat in the room,” said Joseph Wyckoff, a freshman science major and Douglas Hall resident.

Wyckoff said he and his roommate turned the heat on around Tuesday.

“I have my coat, but I have warmer clothes I’m probably gonna’ grab when I go home,” Wyckoff said.

Adam Riveria, a sophomore sociology major, said he is in his second year at Thomas Hall and has never had a problem with the temperature.

“Temperature has been fine; it hasn’t been too hot or cold, amazingly.”

Mark Hudson, director of housing and dining services, said his department has not received any complaints from residents about temperature recently.

“We’ve been, over the past several years, working on these systems to make them responsive, but whenever you go from cool to warm, systems are harder to fine tune. If anybody’s rooms are too hot or cool, they just report it and we’ll check it out.”

Hudson said temperature problems should be reported to the front desks of residence halls.

Others view the recent temperature change as “delightful.”

“It’s wonderful because it’s 50 degrees out there and that’s not bad at all,” said Dalias Price, local weather observer and former Eastern professor.

Price said the recent temperature drop is not that bad and is still rather warm in comparison to previous years.

“The normal high would have been 52 and got up to 55 today (Sunday),” he said. “It’s a warmer day than normal. The low was 44 for the evening (Sunday) and the norm would be 36.

“It’s mild weather for this November. What we’ve had was prolonged misty, mild weather with little precipitation,” Price said.

Record temperatures have been recorded both warmer and cooler, however, he said.

“We’ve had a temperature of 76 on this date just two years ago,” he said. “That was an all time high.”

To demonstrate the extreme, Price said, the temperature has been “three above this morning in 1959.”

“Winter is lingering here just waiting to pounce on us… this is mild weather for us, but not that pleasant in terms of moisture,” Price said.

Campus Editor Jennifer Chiariello can be reached at [email protected].