broken dorm room phone

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<p>I’m so sorry to make this post, but I’ve about given up and thought maybe there’d be suggestions here…</p>

<p>I just moved into a new room on campus, and the phone jack is broken. Facilities has gone home for the weekend and my friends who are still here have no idea how to help. I need to make an international call and can’t use my cell phone, so I’d really like to fix the jack tonight…</p>

<p>The problem is just that the jack itself got loose within the box, and is now floating around in a position such that I can’t get the cord to fit in securely. It’s supposed to be secured at the opening, so I can just click the cord in. How can I get it back in the correct position? Everything I do seems to just push it back in further…</p>

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<p>Speak to your RA. There may be some solution to your problem that you haven’t thought of. </p>

<p>At my daughter’s college, for example, it doesn’t matter what physical phone you make a long-distance call from; you have to type in a lot of codes to charge it to your bursar’s bill regardless, and you can do it from any campus phone. If your college has a similar setup, you could make the call from a friend’s room but have the charge billed to you.</p>