Trivia / Cold Enough For Snow

• Technology Marches On: A homesick student is seen using a payphone to call her mother, in a communal area, in front of many other students. This was before the widespread use of mobile phones; nowadays, she would almost certainly be making the call on a mobile phone, in the privacy of her room.
• Write What You Know: Averted. Writer Jack Rosenthal's daughter Amy revealed that unlike the characters Neil and Pippa, she herself was extremely reluctant to leave home for university. A scene with a homesick female student pleading to go back home is possibly a reference to her.