Living in a building with both built-in heating and built-in air conditioning, with a thermostat in your room, is weirdly frustrating.
I don’t generally care about the temperature, within a fairly broad range, but I need to set the thermostat to something. Sometimes, I come home to find the building wastefully cooling my room; other times, to find it needlessly warming the small space.
I wish there were an ambient outdoor temperature setting that I could use as a default.
Author: Milan
In the spring of 2005, I graduated from the University of British Columbia with a degree in International Relations and a general focus in the area of environmental politics. Between 2005 and 2007 I completed an M.Phil in IR at Wadham College, Oxford. I worked for five years for the Canadian federal government, including completing the Accelerated Economist Training Program, and then completed a PhD in Political Science at the University of Toronto in 2023.
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