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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jbuckets_404 39
OP: Option #1: drag her *ss out of bed onto the actual floor for each alarm. Or drop all of her textbooks - 1 by 1 - onto her head for each alarm. Option #2: Turn off/ unplug/ and hide all her alarms after she's asleep.... Or even cut off the power cords. They can easily be spliced back together ... tho still time-consuming.
donovanbarnes 6
As someone who used to do that as well, I'm sorry OP, it may get better as they get more used to waking up to alarms
Mudge 11
tell her to stop
heatherrr17 19
I have to set a million alarms because I sleep through them I can't even hear them, sometimes. Luckily I don't have a roommate!
Tenebrous_fml 12
Tell her to use headphones and connect it to her phone so only she'll hear it and it won't ring around the entire room
Teletubbyterror 5
Well just sleep through them smh
spirithound 13
Any possibility of becoming a morning person? You might be able to do some reading before class...
da_guitar_boi 4
This seems to happen pretty often on FML and to people I know in real life. How I would handle the situation: 1. Politely mention that she sets too many alarms and they are waking you up long before you need to be awake and ask her to set them for when she actually needs to get up. 2. If that doesn't work or she refuses, once she is asleep at night/before she wakes up turn off all of the alarms that go off before she needs to be awake, 3. If that doesn't work turn off all of her alarms and set one for 5 minutes before she needs to leave to still be on time. If none of these work its time to get serious. 4. Turn off all of her alarms once the first one goes off and she doesn't wake up. If she oversleeps and is late... oh well 5. Now we're getting to the fun part. Take a cup of ice and gently pour it on/near her crotch area. As the ice melts it shouldn't be enough to wake her up but it will soak her blanket/pants/underwear.etc. If she still doesn't take the hint and make some changes then it's time to get mean... I mean even. Once that first alarm goes off and wakes you head to the kitchen and fill a large bowl/bucket with as much ice as you can and then as much water as it will hold/as much as you can and still carry it and dump it on her. As you pour shout WAKEY WAKEY SLEEPY HEAD IT'S TIME TO GET UP AND TURN YOUR GOD DAMN ALARM OFF ************, as loud as you can between trying to breathe and control your laughter. Good luck. If this still doesn't work I hope you at least get some laughs out of it and your roommate starts to realize how much of an inconsiderate jackass she is being. I forgot to mention, after completing step #5 be prepared to run quickly to the bathroom, your room, Fort Knox... doesn't really matter as long as it is secure enough to ensure your safety, which I can not guarantee if you choose to follow these steps. Good luck and may the odds be ever in your favor
AidanKozak 13
Purdue? My sister goes there
Csenecal 7
This is actually exactly what I do to get up for school...