Today, I'm a college student. Just like every other goddamn day, my roommate set about twenty alarms a good two hours before she even needs to get up. She just sleeps through the first hour or so of alarms while I wake up. I've been waking up at 6 a.m., even though my first classes are at 9. FML.
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Today, like every other day, my roommate's alarm began to go off at 7:30am. What time does she have to wake up? 10:00am. Why does she have her alarm go off for two and a half hours? Because last semester she needed it to go off then and she is too lazy to change it. FML
Today, my roommate set her extremely loud alarm clock for 5am and continued to hit the snooze button every ten minutes until 7:30. FML
Today, like every day, I woke up at 3 in the morning because my roommate needs "a three hour warning" before his real alarm goes off. His alarm is a constant beeping noise which he always ignores for a good 10 minutes before finally getting up and turning it off. FML
Today, my roommate's extremely loud and obnoxious alarm went off six times, waking me up each time, before she finally gave up on hitting the snooze button and went back to sleep for good. FML
Today, just like every other day, I was woken up 2 hours earlier than I needed to be, by the alarm belonging to my upstairs neighbors. They won't wake up until their real alarm goes off: me, pounding the walls and yelling in frustration. FML
Today, my roommate gets up at 3:30am for work and wakes me up each time. I try not to complain about it, but whenever I come back to the apartment at midnight, she gets mad that I woke her up. I told her that she wakes me up in the morning, but apparently that’s different because she’s going to work. FML
Today, I set 3 alarms so I wouldn't miss an early morning event I was volunteering at. After I slept through the first one, my roommate turned the other two off without waking me up because they were annoying. I missed the event. FML
Today, I woke up to the sound of my roommate's alarm clock going off at 6:00 in the morning. His bedroom door was locked, and he was passed out in his bed from drinking too much. It rang continuously for five and a half hours before it finally ran out of batteries. FML
Today, I'm dead on my feet. My flatmate's alarm went off for 20 minutes at 5 a.m., which I heard and he didn't. A car alarm went off outside my window for half an hour at 7 a.m. My building fire alarm went off twice, at 8 and 8:10 a.m. Just let me sleep. FML
Today, I didn't get to sleep until 5 a.m., as I stayed up to finish off a big project that I have been working on for the past week. I was then woken up at 6 a.m. by my daughter saying she was ready for school. School starts at 9 a.m., and is a 2-minute drive away. I'm now at work, living off an hour of sleep and coffee. FML
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inks98 14
Have you thought about talking to your roommate? Maybe she'll understand if you ask her to set fewer alarms!
Solano2580 24
Take it up with your DM (Dorm Manager).
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Shay_Shay97 23
I have a solution. Ask her to put in headphones or earbuds or something like that before she goes to bed. That way there's absolutely no way she can sleep through the alarms, and you get to sleep in a little bit more. All my classes start before my roommate's, and that's what I do. It's a win- win.
chessu 21
I sleep with earphones as ear plugs do nothing for me (everything comes through anyway, the plugs help a BIT), but they are still quite uncomfortable (and I have tiny ones) and I have never woken up with them still in my ears
smallandroid 26
I've tried to go to sleep like this, but every time I wake up the earbuds are either tangled around me or off somewhere else, never still in my ears.
ImagineCrazy 27
How to break your earphones 101
smallandroid 26
I forgot to mention- This is especially bad because if you have your headphones plugged in and they come off of/fall out of your ears while you sleep, you won't be able to hear your alarm AT ALL when it goes off, because all the sound is now forced to go through the headphones. It's not even worth risking.
iceking53 8
pound on his/her door at 6 every morning
yerawizardlizzy 27
If they are in a dorm they are more than likely in the same room.
ChibiChick25 8
I was thinking of also just pounding on her door like SWAT is coming in but if they are in the same room that's even better!! I would suggest putting a spray bottle with water next to OPs bed and when she doesn't wake up, spray her with the water. My uncle used to do that and believe me, I learned to get up real quick.
caroline43872 24
Ask her if you can set an alarm for when she needs to wake up so then you can wake her
soullyfe 33
13: That shouldn't have to be OP's responsibility.
el_Jeffe_D 11
I agree...but pick your battles. if she is already up and can get the roommate up, and it takes 30 seconds but gives OP an extra two hours to sleep, then why not?
stressedartist 14
At least you aren't late
Zebediabolical 45
...better late than pregnant.
bambisapphic 18
get a fan or white noise machine
species4872 20
So you've been arriving at your class 2 hours early huh.
Bearsmomma 30
lol. I got the reference.
justinb97 16
I sleep through an hour of my alarms too... maybe if you woke them up then went back to sleep they would set less alarms? Idk, I know what it's like to be a heavy sleeper
chessu 21
I know what it's like to be not, and even though it may be a better solution to what they've got now, as someone who is constantly woken up at 6am by my housemates cooking, it definitely disrupts my sleep and I want to sleep like extra 2h
bowiebeauti_fml 7
Welcome to the real world..
lena0628_ 12
you know the pain
ollygollymolly 6
I had a roomie in high school that did this and she had one of the bell clocks that was SUPER loud. Only she would set it around 4am and get up around 6am when we all needed to be waking up. After talking to her about it and trying various other things, her clock got smashed. Wups. Oh well.