<p>Is there anyone who has even relatively normal sleeping habits- and by that I mean goes to bed anywhere from 10-11?</p>
<p>In college, 10-11 is DEFINITELY not normal; that would be abnormal.</p>
<p>I am so fortunate with my roommate! Besides my best friend who also lives on our hall, I think we are the only ones who attempt to go to sleep before midnight every night. Normally I’m in bed going to sleep at 11:30/11:45 and she is geting ready for bed and besides rare occassions we are in bed before midnight. She started work-study a bit into the semester so we actually ended up getting up at the same time MWF (our alarms would go off within a few minutes of each other), so things were incredibly smooth the fall semester, I hope this semester goes as well. </p>
<p>Oh, and Mirabeau are you already a college student or a high shcool student? I would never stay up past 10:30 on a school night in high school, as in I was dead asleep by 10:15 or so, but things really changed when I went to college and I pushed that back about an hour/hour and a half. I still get the most sleep out of everyone I know (normally 9 hours), although I do have ONE friend who goes to sleep around 10 because of medical reasons that get worse if she doesn’t get a ton of sleep.</p>
<p>still in high school- most times I end up in bed around 11ish or so, but sometimes I just conk out on the sofa whilst I’m watching TV a bit earlier than that. I dunno why, but I just find that I’m not a happy person unless I get a fairly good amount of sleep…</p>
<p>My roommate is completely obnoxious when it comes to sleep schedules. I tend to go to bed around 11:30 or 12 because i have early classes, and she stays up until around 2, which is fine. However, she is not considerate. She doesn’t study in the room, which is nice, but she comes in every night and makes a ton of noise. She slams drawers and doors for about an hour before going to sleep, inevitably waking me up in the process. </p>
<p>However, this is not the bad part. </p>
<p>She sets a million alarms to wake up in the morning, starting at least an hour before she has to get up. These alarms start between 6:30 and 7 every morning. She uses a cell phone (with multiple songs/ringtones as alarms) as well as a clock radio that has the loudest beeping alarm i have EVER heard (it starts out quietly and softly, eventually gets louder and louder). She actually used to have snooze set to every five minutes (i changed it to every 20 haha), so the alarm would go off for an hour and a half before she would drag herself out of bed. And now for the worst part. She sets the alarms on weekends too. </p>
<p>So pretty much, I’ve been sleep deprived for ages.</p>
<p>I go to bed anywhere between 8:30 and 12, depending on the next day’s schedule. In my dorm we each have our own light; I simply turn mine off. One light doesn’t bother me.
I’m up by 8 but he sleeps till 11-1 so I try to be considerate and quiet. Can’t help but wake him up sometimes… but it’s okay, since sometimes he wakes me up by coming in way late at night, etc. I wear headphones all the time.</p>
<p>He’s oblivious to alarms.</p>
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<p>The clock can buzz and vibrate, or buzz only or vibrate only. The buzz is really, really obnoxious. The vibrate alone is fine.</p>
<p>Alarm clock wise: </p>
<p>I use my cell phone and that works really really well. Setting that on vibrate can wake you up instantly, and it’s pretty quiet too.</p>
<p>my roommate does the snooze routine all the time…sometimes for almost an hour it is so damn annoying…what is the point?</p>
<p>There is no point to it! If you hit snooze all the time, all you end up doing is training your body to go back to sleep when the alarm goes off, and you get used to sleeping through it. </p>
<p>The vibrating alarm clock is a good idea, however there is no way I’m spending money on my roommate (we’re not exactly best friends). I prefer more passive aggressive ways of getting my point across, such as turning the alarm off if she hits snooze too often. </p>
<p>The weekend thing has got to stop though, or I will eventually snap.</p>
<p>is it normal that my roomate starts hw like at 2 a.m?</p>
<p>I just go to bed with the lights on. Some times he puts on head phones and some times he uses the speakers. It doesnt really bother me as I take an hour to fall asleep anyways. As long as the sound is somewhat continuous I am fine with it.</p>