I often sleep through my alarm by either turning it off in my sleep or hitting snooze repeatedly for several hours. Last year I had an early final the next day, so I took my alarm clock, turned the volume all the way up, and put it across the room from my bed.

The next morning, the alarm went off like a foghorn, scaring the sh*t out of me so much that I fell out of bed in my hurry to turn it off. Not so bad, except I had a loft bed that was 8 feet in the air and that I landed on a bunch of stuff that was below my bed. By the end of the day I looked like someone had beat me up from all the bruises I had.