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Re: Goin' to School
« Reply #20 on: August 30, 2008, 07:52:04 AM »

Option 1 should work out, so long as your roommates aren't total dicks and you don't giggle madly to yourself throughout the night.

My freshman year of college, I played Warcraft on a PC that wasn't mine, in a room that wasn't mine, late into the night on many occasions. I lived.
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Re: Goin' to School
« Reply #21 on: August 30, 2008, 08:49:17 AM »

If things turn out badly, you could try making a bet with your roommates to trick them into sleeping with a large bath towel firmly wrapped around their heads.  Blocks out some noise and most if not all light.  Or bring sets of earplugs and sleeping masks as gifts the first day as a preemptive strike against possible conflict.
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Re: Goin' to School
« Reply #22 on: August 30, 2008, 05:14:03 PM »

You'll still finish your degree before I do.
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Re: Goin' to School
« Reply #23 on: August 30, 2008, 08:41:35 PM »

Option 2 is a good middle ground, but the fact of the matter is, most people aren't light enough sleepers that you'll actually need to avoid making noise after they're in a deep enough sleep and for most it needn't actually be that deep. 1 will probably work unless you've got one of those unfortunate humans built to survive surrounded by danger, and wake up when the air carries the scent of a new animal on it.

My mom is one of these sad people. She made sneaking downstairs to play videogames in the morning impossible.
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Re: Goin' to School
« Reply #24 on: August 30, 2008, 08:44:18 PM »

If they're not idiots and/or have ever lived in a dorm before, they're bound to expect a certain amount of that kind of thing.
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Re: Goin' to School
« Reply #25 on: August 31, 2008, 10:43:10 AM »

If things turn out badly, you could try making a bet with your roommates to trick them into sleeping with a large bath towel firmly wrapped around their heads.  Blocks out some noise and most if not all light.  Or bring sets of earplugs and sleeping masks as gifts the first day as a preemptive strike against possible conflict.

I'm actually planning on bringing this little box of a hundred earplugs.  They can certainly have some, but I worry a little bit about whether or not they will hear their alarms.

I started using earplugs about a year ago.  (Just one, on the side of my head that's not on the pillow.)  I have trouble falling asleep when there's noise or light, having grown up in rural New Hampshire where there is near total silence and darkness at night.  Once I'm asleep, though, you could probably shit mice in my ear before I'd wake up.

Anyway, I talked to my brother, and he says there's basically no way that Option 2 would be seen as anything other than a whack shack.  Even though I'd swear up and down that I wasn't spanking it in there (and I wouldn't be), it'd still be the kind of thing where people ask questions about it.  I don't think the light from the monitor will be awful anyway, if it's facing the wall instead of the room.

What does it say about me that I'm more concerned about my roommates being pissed at me than I am about being pissed at my roommates?  I mean, as long as they don't touch my shit without permission or try to sneak pot into the room or something, I'll probably get along with them fine.
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Re: Goin' to School
« Reply #26 on: August 31, 2008, 01:05:23 PM »

You'd be upset with them bringing you pot?
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Re: Goin' to School
« Reply #27 on: August 31, 2008, 05:35:11 PM »

Some people just don't like pot.
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Re: Goin' to School
« Reply #28 on: August 31, 2008, 07:01:26 PM »

a whack shack.

Whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa.






Whooooa.









Whoa.

Did you just make up that term, or is there a precedent I'm unaware of here?
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Re: Goin' to School
« Reply #29 on: August 31, 2008, 07:51:08 PM »

If you're going to be up regularly and you're that worried about it tell them you play videogames then and they could join you if they're ever crazy for some SC4 at 2 in the morning. Also, your room mates will be masturbating at some point. Ignore their sexual indiscretions and they'll ignore your real and imagined ones.
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Re: Goin' to School
« Reply #30 on: August 31, 2008, 11:18:27 PM »

But invest in air freshener.
Improperly aired, a funk smell will permeate your room and it's bad enough with the terrible funk in the halls.

For the record: My first setup did not actually allow the windows to be opened. You had room controlled heat and A/C. No operable windows. I was about to be very embarrassed except that the horrendous funk of my roommate overpowered any of my own before it became a problem.

Also, shit, I started posting that semester.
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Re: Goin' to School
« Reply #31 on: September 01, 2008, 06:18:55 PM »

a whack shack.
Whoa.

Did you just make up that term, or is there a precedent I'm unaware of here?
It's probably the atom of a jerk city.
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Re: Goin' to School
« Reply #32 on: September 01, 2008, 06:45:37 PM »

My brother is the one who taught it to me, and it appears on UD as precisely what I described god knows how old it is.
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Re: Goin' to School
« Reply #33 on: September 02, 2008, 02:34:21 AM »

Well, I woke up at 4:30 am because I had to poop and I didn't go back to bed, mainly because I have to stand on my computer desk and climb up to get into bed.  Another kid's fan is pretty loud, which is great.  I didn't seem to disturb their sleep.  I did ask them last night if it would bug them if I was up late, and they both said they didn't give a shit as long as I was quiet.  I went to bed much earlier than they did, about 10 pm, because I had earplugs in so nothing could possibly disturb me.

The net connection here is spotty as fuck, disconnects every few minutes if I'm lucky enough to get on at all.  They claim it will improve over time.  It is apparently possible that they'll block my ability to play Warhammer Online, which would really piss me off.
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Re: Goin' to School
« Reply #34 on: September 02, 2008, 06:58:17 AM »

Wifi?  Or is it a landline that is spotty as hell?
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Re: Goin' to School
« Reply #35 on: September 02, 2008, 07:49:06 AM »

I'm on wired, my roommates are on wifi, and we are having the same problem.
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Re: Goin' to School
« Reply #36 on: September 02, 2008, 07:53:24 AM »

If it doesn't get better after the first week, might want to ask helpdesk / IT about it.
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Re: Goin' to School
« Reply #37 on: September 02, 2008, 07:55:05 AM »

I will.  I'll also be super nice, in case I need to bribe them to unblock Warhammer in the near future.
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Re: Goin' to School
« Reply #38 on: September 02, 2008, 07:57:53 AM »

Here's a nifty link about various tech things for back-to-school folk.
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Re: Goin' to School
« Reply #39 on: September 02, 2008, 01:43:15 PM »

Hey, that stealth stufying guide thing looks pretty intriguing, actually. I may check it to see if it works when I go back to school in the coming months.

Some people just don't like pot.

I am like that. The smell of it gives me heart burn for some reason.
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