We at Scene understand that freshmen have better things to do than sleep… or, as is often the case, have little say when it comes to their sleep schedules. Here’s what happened when we assigned two of our writers, Allie Wieczorek and Arielle Samuelson, to record a sleepless night in a freshman dorm via AOL Instant Messenger. It’s amazing what we college students will discuss at length, even if it is at a time when the rest of the word is waking up. If this type of thing doesn’t sound all too familiar, consider yourself lucky.
Oopers13 (4:46:5 AM): i honestly don’t even know what we’re supposed to write about
Memers18 (4:46:29 AM): haha i think its supposed to be about sleep
Memers18 (4:46:41 AM): which i’m not getting any of
Oopers13 (4:47:00 AM): me either
Oopers13 (4:49:48 AM): the old dorms are so loud, it’s ridiculous
Memers18 (4:50:06 AM): YES THEY ARE
Oopers13 (4:50:19 AM): it’s amazing on the weekends but it’s terrible when i’m actually sleeping for that hour each night
Memers18 (4:50:25 AM): I can hear EVERY word of the damn movies those boys play next to me
Oopers13 (4:50:44 AM): i can hear my neighbor singing…he’s in an a capella group
Memers18 (4:50:52 AM): I know! one of our boys with a single keeps complaining that girls pass out on his bed so he can’t ever go to sleep.
Oopers13 (4:50:55 AM): i can hear every single alarm in the morning, mine’s the loudest though
Oopers13 (4:51:48 AM): i have trouble waking up in the mornings so my mom bought me this thing called a shake awake…there’s a vibrator connected to the clock that i put under my pillow so my pillows shakes when my alarm goes off
Memers18 (4:51:49 AM): oh yeah my vibrator is so loud but even that doesn’t work, I had to open the blinds and my roommate nearly killed me
Oopers13 (4:52:05 AM): yeah my roommate wants me dead too
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Memers18 (5:01:51 AM): well it’s impossible to nap
Memers18 (5:01:58 AM): unless you fall asleep on the quad
Memers18 (5:02:03 AM): and then the sprinkler gets you
Oopers13 (5:02:11 AM): my friend’s roommate speaks Korean in his sleep
Memers18 (5:02:17 AM): HAHA
Memers18 (5:02:28 AM): omigosh we have SO many stories about people talking in their sleep
Memers18 (5:03:01 AM): like one guy on our floor was like “the answer is t=1.7, NO WAIT, a=1.7!”
Memers18 (5:03:04 AM): in his sleep
Memers18 (5:03:21 AM): and this other guy started banging his head on the wall and said “ow” for ten minutes straight
Oopers13 (5:03:29 AM): whoa
Oopers13 (5:03:40 AM): thats the scary thing…I don’t even know what I do in my sleep
Memers18 (5:04:07 AM): i turn off my alarm in my sleep
Oopers13 (5:04:31 AM): my roommate has a line of artillery on her shelf near her bed
Oopers13 (5:04:49 AM): there’s a little bean bag soccer ball…then a full water bottle…then a flashlight…and last but not least her old school treasure troll
Oopers13 (5:05:17 AM): it is so funny…she decided she’ll throw them at me when I can’t wake up, starting with the lightest and ending with the scary troll
Memers18 (5:05:36 AM): hahahhaha
Memers18 (5:05:42 AM): you know what we need
Memers18 (5:05:45 AM): A CANNON
Memers18 (5:05:50 AM): that goes off on the swamp
Memers18 (5:05:59 AM): every morning
Oopers13 (5:06:24 AM): that would be amazing
Memers18 (5:06:30 AM): yeah like taps or something
Oopers13 (5:06:38 AM): it wouldn’t work for me…but maybe for most people…
Memers18 (5:06:53 AM): seriously they should have wakeup calls…those dorm phones are piercing
Oopers13 (5:07:04 AM): what i really need is my mom to pull me out of bed…Freaky Friday style…she did that every morning at home
Memers18 (5:07:14 AM): yeah my mom poured water on me
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Oopers13 (5:10:13 AM): i need an egg crate or something
Oopers13 (5:10:19 AM): it’s so noisy without one!
Memers18 (5:10:30 AM): egg crates?
Oopers13 (5:11:00 AM): you know those things you put on your mattress to make its more cushioned and softer
Oopers13 (5:11:06 AM): everyone has them but me
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Memers18 (5:12:09 AM): i have so much sh*t on my floor that i have to be like a trained acrobat to get into the bed
Memers18 (5:12:22 AM): i have to take a flying leap
Oopers13 (5:12:33 AM): oh wow that’s crazy…my roommate is luckily messy too so we can’t yell at each other
Memers18 (5:12:51 AM): hahah that’s good, mine threatens me with disembowelment like all the time
Oopers13 (5:13:09 AM): you should move in with us
Oopers13 (5:13:16 AM): although if you’re as messy as we are you won’t fit
Memers18 (5:13:27 AM): i would fit but my stuff wouldn’t, hahaha