<p>Jeez, my rm/mt’s om would call our room every morning at 7 or 8 am. I kept telling her to stop, as I had no early classes. Her DD was rarely sleeping in our room, and I was tired of the calls and covering for said rm/mt. Who was pregnant in first semester.</p>
<p>My son’s college had no classes before 11 am. smart</p>
<p>My biggest fear when my now-graduated D went to college was she wouldn’t be able to get up. The first time she overslept was a pre-paid Saturday trip she missed. She ended up using 3 different alarm clocks (at the same time) and placing them in different places in the room, changing the location every day. </p>
<p>Her roommate her first year also had a problem waking up, so they teamed together to help each other out. They actually both slept through several alarms for the above-mentioned trip. But it helped having a sympathetic roommate.</p>
<p>Maybe on the housing application this can be mentioned?</p>
<p>Oh bookworm, that’s terrible!! Thank goodness they did away with room/suite phones!!</p>
<p>I think we are related, bookworm. When I was in grad school we had a roommate who would call her parents between 6 and 7 am on a Sunday morning, collect, they would decline it and then her father would call her back. This went on for months until my other roommate and I finally said something about the ridiculously early hour of these calls on a Sunday morning.</p>
<p>Shrinkwrap,</p>
<p>Do you remember the toaster scene in Pulp Fiction?</p>
<p>I know someone who had success with an app like this for their iPhone. [Sleep</a> Cycle alarm clock](<a href=“http://www.sleepcycle.com%5DSleep”>http://www.sleepcycle.com) It analyzes when you are in a light sleep pattern and tries to wake you then, perhaps a little earlier than planned if you are in the right sleep pattern.</p>
<p>Thanks–I have a senior S with same problem. I’ll get him to try some of these ideas. . .
This kid actually talks in his sleep and tells me he’s up half a dozen times every morning while he is still asleep. Then he’ll swear that I never woke him up. He already has a really loud alarm clock, but it doesn’t help. Doesn’t help that he goes to bed at 3am, either.</p>
<p>Oh no…I have not seen Pulp Fiction. Quentin Tarentino. Not my kind of thing. But all night I will have intrusive images of what you MIGHT be talking about, guarenteed to be worse than the real thing. (Scared emoticon).</p>
<p>Who has seen the recent Samuel L Jackson commercials? The original version seems to have been edited. SNL did a spoof last weekend that I think was from Pulp Fiction.</p>
<p>Denise; I think that is the app my daughter has.</p>
<p>I looked up the toaster scene</p>
<p><strong><em>Pulp Fiction SPOILER ALERT</em></strong>***</p>
<p>“The toaster in Pulp Fiction was a Sunbeam® 2-slice model 346 toaster. Its primary role in the film is to startle Bruce Willis and prompt him to shoot John Travolta in the chest.
Although the Toaster is considered to have landed the most important role ever given to a toaster in a major Hollywood film, director Quentin Tarantino describes him as “a complete nightmare” and “a real ***** to work with,” insisting that he will never cast the Toaster in another of his films again.”</p>
<p>Night!</p>
<p>Thanks for so much fun! Who knew a heavy sleeper thread would move to pulp fiction. After the metathread anything is possible…I smile just thinking about it. I love the cafe!!</p>
<p>Shrink, I’m not a Terintino fan either but have seen most of his movies at one point or another on DVD since DH likes them. Pulp Fiction is so long ago, I didn’t remember the toaster. Those were the sleep deprivation years (3 kids in 4 years) so memory is foggy of the early-mid 90’s anyway, lol!</p>
<p>I told S3 about the math alarm app concept last night. He’s was pretty into the idea. I recon’ed thisAM for android apps. Seems Alarm Clock Xtreme has made several ‘best’ lists so I sent a link to S3. There’s a free version with ads to try, then upgrade $1.99 to get rid of ads if you’re happy with it. </p>
<p>I’ll let y’all know how it goes!</p>
<p>btw atomom, this one will sit straight up, talk to you, swear he’s awake, put his feet on the floor, light on, ten min later he’s dead asleep. We actually moved him from his room into my office in 10th grade. When later nights hit with more demanding classes he would fall asleep at his desk reading. We’d check on him, wake him up, and he’d adamantly swear up and down he wasn’t asleep…deep crease on his forehead, red eyes, the whole nine yards. No idea why he couldn’t admit/recognize he was asleep. Oddest thing. Moving him downstairs, just off the family room where we see him (and his body doesn’t instinctively think bedroom=sleep) keeps him from falling asleep, but it’s still late hours.</p>
<p>I used to be like this, and what gets me up reliably now is to set one alarm for about a half hour before I need to wake up, which I promptly shut off without really waking, and then when my real alarm goes off I am not sleeping so deeply anymore and can wake up.</p>
<p>I’ve also used the iPhone app which tracks how deeply asleep you are and wakes you up when it senses you are already sleeping more lightly. This really works. My fianc</p>
<p>blue – would something like this work?
<a href=“http://www.amazon.com/Philips-Hf3470-Wake-up-Light-White/dp/B003XN4RIC/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1383855958&sr=8-1&keywords=sun+alarm+clock[/url]”>http://www.amazon.com/Philips-Hf3470-Wake-up-Light-White/dp/B003XN4RIC/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1383855958&sr=8-1&keywords=sun+alarm+clock</a></p>
<p>It’s supposed to simulate the sun coming up.
Or unless it makes a noise, it won’t wake him up?</p>
<p>My D is the same way. She also uses the phone app that requires simple math problems to shut it off. She has not scheduled a class earlier than 10 am. The only time she has overslept when she really had to be up was last Thanksgiving when she had an 11:30 am flight and woke up at 9:50 am- had to get to LaGuardia and get through security on one of the busiest travel days of the year. She made it, because she was crying in the security line and someone let her go to the front. She wasn’t using the phone app back then. She uses it now.</p>
<p>Barnardmom,
Amazing what tears can do in a security line! Coming back from Jamaica, my son started to tear-up when flight overbooked–he was 8? or so–and no flight for hours. We got the last 2 seats.</p>
<p>I confess to missing planes, so don’t try to book too early. There are many JetBlue flights to Boston, so last time I was up early and got to airport before the 7 am flight, and got on. Oh dear, I just remembered the worm booked a 7 am return flight after T-day. I guess we’ll set 6 alarm clocks, unless anyone wants to volunteer to call us?</p>
<p>I walked out of pulp fiction after some scene in the car, I think. I cannot tolerate blood and guts. I probably would have preferred the toaster.</p>
<p>bookworm – if you’d like a wake up call between 3 and 4 am, I bet me and 3bm103 will be up and can accommodate you!</p>