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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honestjane 22
My brother had a college roomie like that. He walked over to his bed and slapped him hard on the bottom of his bare feet every day he let his alarm go off like that without getting up. A few times of that straightened him right up. But if you don't want to get that aggressive, I've found lemon juice in the ear wakes up a heavy sleeper quite well.
grajax 24
Offer to wake her up
heryseshta 9
Sounds like you might need to throw frozen marbles in their bed when the first alarm goes off!
Arshoo14 2
Ask her what time actually she needs to wake up and set an alarm for yourself on that time. Then wake up and wake her up and be sure she won't sleep. Then You can go to sleep if you want or at least you'd slept more before you have to wake up.
angbelles 5
I would warn them that that they either set their alarms for later or you'll turn them all off. That's annoying as **** and ridiculous.
peacefully84 19
How about you offer to set an alarm to wake yourself up at 8 so you can shake her ass up? You probably have to get up around then anyway and she won't feel the need for 80 alarms when there's a sure to wake up person to kick her ass... yeah you shouldn't have to "mom" her but if it keeps you from having to wake up at 6AM for no reason... might be worth it.
SteveDudleyUK 10
When her alarm first goes off bank on her door and make sure she is awake. Don't let her go back to sleep again. After a few days she is likely to set the alarms to go off later in the morning. But even then make sure she is well awake when they go off or she will revert back to setting them early again.
GhostFox 34
Given the college part, I'll assume money's too tight for either of you to buy an alarm that specializes in waking people who are heavy sleepers. I'd get evidence of it and go to whoever manages your dorm, if there is such a person. They might find her a more compatible roommate, or might be able to give her a specialized alarm clock, depending on funding.
milliepede 14
If your first class is at 9am, and she's setting alarms for 6am to go off for 2 hours so she's up for class, doesn't that mean you're both getting up around the same time really? So if her alarms are really getting to you that badly, couldn't you just make sure she gets up when you get up for class too?
peglegmeg9117 4
if i were you id set my own alarm for five minutes before her first alarm goes off, get up and turn off every single alarm she has set on her phone or else wise. Get dressed, get some early breakfast at dennys or something then go to class while she sleeps in and is late.