Why! 4am?

Texas Beta · #1 12-01-2006, 06:48 AM

Some fraternities are located on campus grounds, at Texas, they're not. We're located close to campus, in the area known as "west campus" where it's 90% students. Recently Austin changed the zoning laws and such so developers could go on a rampage destroying tons of old apartments to build new, huge ones. By law they can't start working until 7AM, but it's 4AM and I can hear the trucks already lining the streets, leaving their engines running.

I'm up now still writing a paper, but I couldn't tell you how many mornings I've been woken up by trucks getting ready to unload materials early in the morning. Also having to pay for a new tire every time I run over a nail that they left in the road.

My focus is, what annoyances do you find around your house? There are a lot of hippies here, they are annoying.

Tex1899 · #2 12-01-2006, 10:10 AM

3 comments:

1) Arriving at 4am for 7am work seems a bit odd. That being said, you don't shut off a diesel engine, you let it idle...unless you're at a cemetery.

2) I don't think "woken" is a word. But I use it, so it must be a Texas thing.

3) Hippies are bad for the enviroment. If you don't like them you should transfer to A&M, unless you're studying something like journalism.

About 26 trains run through College Station each day (for those of you who've never been fortunate enough to visit College Station, a train track cuts right through the middle of A&M's campus). I used to wake up at 2 in the morning as a train was nearing a street crossing. Fortunately I graduated several years ago so I don't have to deal with it anymore.

33girl · #3 12-01-2006, 10:27 AM

Our house was off campus, but just off campus (i.e. across the street 2 ways out of 3 was on). It was also located near a hill that apparently the ROTC found good for running up and down as part of their exercise. That would have been fine if they wouldn't have been CHANTING at the same time and doing it AT 5 IN THE MORNING.

Oh, and I think woken is a word.

pinkflamingo · #4 12-01-2006, 10:48 AM

I thought woken was right, too, but can't find it in the dictionary.

"I was awakened..." ?????????????????

DeltAlum · #5 12-01-2006, 02:00 PM

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Originally Posted by pinkflamingo

I thought woken was right, too, but can't find it in the dictionary.

"I was awakened..." ?????????????????

No on the first (I think)

Yes on the second (for sure)

"I wanna be an Airborne Ranger...
I wanna live a life of Danger..."

(Maybe the chants have changed since my time...)

Siggy_lxvi · #6 12-03-2006, 03:43 PM

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Originally Posted by DeltAlum

"I wanna be an Airborne Ranger...
I wanna live a life of Danger..."

(Maybe the chants have changed since my time...)

My first two years of college were at a federal service academy that sent graduates to all branches of the military, so I got to hear just about every cadence in use in every service those two years (and was rather like being in a fraternity that hazes HARD and has a nine-month pledge period) and I last heard that cadence as

"wanna live a life of sex, guns and danger
wanna make my living as an Airborne Ranger"

Though, we may have miss-chanted that one based off of the "When I get to Heaven" cadence...

_Lisa_ · #7 12-01-2006, 11:06 AM

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Originally Posted by 33girl

Our house was off campus, but just off campus (i.e. across the street 2 ways out of 3 was on). It was also located near a hill that apparently the ROTC found good for running up and down as part of their exercise. That would have been fine if they wouldn't have been CHANTING at the same time and doing it AT 5 IN THE MORNING.

This happened when I lived at U of L, the ROTC guys would run & chant at 5AM past the dorms.

alum · #8 12-01-2006, 02:23 PM

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Originally Posted by 33girl

Our house was off campus, but just off campus (i.e. across the street 2 ways out of 3 was on). It was also located near a hill that apparently the ROTC found good for running up and down as part of their exercise. That would have been fine if they wouldn't have been CHANTING at the same time and doing it AT 5 IN THE MORNING.

Oh, and I think woken is a word.

PT is always run at o'dark-thirty!
Don't you remember the military slogan
"We get more done before 9 am than most people get done in a day"?

MysticCat · #9 12-01-2006, 02:32 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by pinkflamingo

I thought woken was right, too, but can't find it in the dictionary.

"I was awakened..."

Quote:

Originally Posted by DeltAlum

No on the first (I think)

Yes on the second (for sure)

Per Fowler's Modern English Usage (2nd Ed. 1965), any of the following would/could be correct for passive voice, past tense:

"I was awakened by the noise."

"The noise wakened me." (rare, though, and therefore not preferred.)

"I was wakened by it."

"I was woke by it." (not preferred)

"I was woken by it."

My Random House Unabridged does have "woken" in it.

RU OX Alum · #10 12-01-2006, 02:43 PM

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Originally Posted by MysticCat

Per Fowler's Modern English Usage (2nd Ed. 1965), any of the following would/could be correct for passive voice, past tense:

"I was awakened by the noise."

"The noise wakened me." (rare, though, and therefore not preferred.)

"I was wakened by it."

"I was woke by it." (not preferred)

"I was woken by it."

My Random House Unabridged does have "woken" in it.

When would you use "awoken"

aggieAXO · #11 12-01-2006, 12:00 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Tex1899

3 comments:

1) Arriving at 4am for 7am work seems a bit odd. That being said, you don't shut off a diesel engine, you let it idle...unless you're at a cemetery.

2) I don't think "woken" is a word. But I use it, so it must be a Texas thing.

3) Hippies are bad for the enviroment. If you don't like them you should transfer to A&M, unless you're studying something like journalism.

About 26 trains run through College Station each day (for those of you who've never been fortunate enough to visit College Station, a train track cuts right through the middle of A&M's campus). I used to wake up at 2 in the morning as a train was nearing a street crossing. Fortunately I graduated several years ago so I don't have to deal with it anymore.

Fotunately I got use to the train noise, what I didn't like is that the train itself would often make me late to class. BTW, I use "woken" as well.

PeppyGPhiB · #12 12-01-2006, 06:01 PM

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Originally Posted by Tex1899

About 26 trains run through College Station each day (for those of you who've never been fortunate enough to visit College Station, a train track cuts right through the middle of A&M's campus). I used to wake up at 2 in the morning as a train was nearing a street crossing. Fortunately I graduated several years ago so I don't have to deal with it anymore.

This reminds me of my friend's alma mater in Oregon. There is a dorm across the train tracks from the rest of the campus. In the last couple years they've designated it the freshman dorm. It's bad enough that they've isolated freshmen from the rest of the campus, but to have train tracks separating them is downright stupid. There is a skybridge across, but many students just cross the tracks. It's very unsafe!

LOVEinZTA · #13 12-06-2006, 08:54 PM

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Originally Posted by Tex1899

3) Hippies are bad for the enviroment. If you don't like them you should transfer to A&M, unless you're studying something like journalism.

WHAT ARE YOU SMOKING?!?!
Telling a longhorn to transfer to A&M, psh, that's asking for a beating, haha. More so, telling someone to choose to live in College Station makes me question your sanity.

I'd much rather deal with loud construction at 2 AM every day for the rest of my life.

However I too live in west campus and share the woes of the early morning construction noises and nails (TWO completely blown tires in a week and a half). But I have something else to add:
-The workers must not know what a water main looks like. My water has randomly died throughout the day for the past 3 months and every time I get in my car later to go somewhere and see water gushing into the streets.

macallan25 · #14 12-01-2006, 11:27 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Texas Beta

Some fraternities are located on campus grounds, at Texas, they're not. We're located close to campus, in the area known as "west campus" where it's 90% students. Recently Austin changed the zoning laws and such so developers could go on a rampage destroying tons of old apartments to build new, huge ones. By law they can't start working until 7AM, but it's 4AM and I can hear the trucks already lining the streets, leaving their engines running.

I'm up now still writing a paper, but I couldn't tell you how many mornings I've been woken up by trucks getting ready to unload materials early in the morning. Also having to pay for a new tire every time I run over a nail that they left in the road.

My focus is, what annoyances do you find around your house? There are a lot of hippies here, they are annoying.

I feel your pain.

carnation · #15 12-01-2006, 11:37 AM

Hippies still exist?