<p>so my room is on the fourth floor. I go to UCLA and its relatively hot right now everywhere. We don’t have air conditioning. My room is significantly Hotter than all of the other rooms. My roommate sits in the room almost all day and plays league of legends and watches sports. His laptop is super heavy duty for gaming and it’s ALways On. Is there a posibility that his computer could be making my Triple really hot?</p>
<p>I worked in an office building with at least 40 computers in one room. Let me tell you that it resulted in at least an increase of 5°F at the end of the day at closing. </p>
<p>But I doubt one little laptop is causing it to be extremely hot. The fact that you guys don’t have air conditioning doesn’t help. What you guys might need is more ventilation. You exhale carbon dioxide every time you take a breath. Particularly if you guys are awake and talking or laughing extremely hard, you’re going to exhale more often. Carbon dioxide traps heat really easily. That heat can come from both your bodies, the temperature outside, or to a lesser extent, the laptop. You can try an experiment with your blankets: pull your blankets over your head with no ventilation. After a while, it’ll get incredibly hot and stuffy underneath your blanket.</p>
<p>Try opening a window if you guys have a screen.</p>
<p>Being in LA is more likely the cause. Buy a fan, buy a bunch of fans. </p>
<p>If you have a little dough, they have portable air conditioners that sit on the floor and vent to a window. Have your roommate split with you so his fancy computer doesn’t break due to the heat.</p>
<p>Do you have a fan?
Can you talk to your RA about what to do?
Can contact maintenance: See:
<a href=“Maximo”>http://www.housing.ucla.edu/workorder/</a></p>
<p>I highly doubt his laptop is the cause of your room being very hot. It’s much more likely being in LA and not having air conditioning that’s doing it. Having three bodies in a tiny room probably doesn’t help matters.</p>
<p>What methods do you all have for cooling the room? Keep the window closed for as long as possible in the morning to keep the cool air in from the night before. Open the window and the door when it gets hot to create whatever breeze you can get. Get a fan and point it directly at you. Get a portable air conditioner if you have a window that you can vent it through.</p>
<p>But really, the best advise is to just leave. As someone who has survived the very hot summer in southern California with no air conditioning in my home or car, the best thing to do is just leave. Go somewhere with air conditioning. Go to the library, go to the movies, go to the mall. If your friends’ rooms are cooler, then go there, but you might find their room gets hotter with an extra body in the room.</p>
<p>Isn’t it really warm in LA right now? That probably has a lot to do with it–it’s Indian summer. </p>
<p>I’d recommend opening a window, leaving your door open, investing in a few good fans and maybe going somewhere with AC if the heat is too much. You could always go to the rec center as well. </p>
<p>Best of luck, and hang in there! </p>
<p>His laptop isn’t going to make a significant difference in the temperature of the room. </p>
<p>A portable, floor model air conditioner is likely the best option. Fans are the cheap option. </p>
<p>My room is hot too! But I live in the Bay Area. I have a killer view of the Bay from my window. But that view comes with a price 
Its been pretty hot for the last few days here. I have a fan but that hasn’t been helping much lately. Definitely leave your door open. Open your windows and close the blinds to your window if you have any. If I leave mine open the sun will shine in making my dorm even hotter. The heat has been killing me. I feel tired all day. I actually had to leave my room and go to the computer lab today for a few hours because its way too hot in here.</p>