[Twisol]

> I was concerned about the heat in Pasadena and the piles of snow in Boston

As a native Californian living in Pasadena, I also hate the heat -- but, unlike Boston (in my experience), air conditioning is standard, and makes the outside situation matter far less. (It's also not usually that bad, and it's almost always a dry heat.)

The one time I visited Boston (for an undergraduate research program), it was frosty the first few days, and then hellishly humid every day thereafter. The dorm I was staying in didn't really have temperature control, and I got the sense that AC wasn't as common.

Your mileage may vary!

[saagarjha]

It's not even that hot in Pasadena. Like, it gets warm in the summer, you may want to stay inside and turn on the AC, but it's typical southern California weather…