Why! 4am?

[DeltAlum]

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]

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...

[ISUmatt]

My dorm last year used to be next to the Amtrak station, so every time a train came in the conductor would lay on the horn for a good 10 minutes. Also, the shape of the building is kind of concave, so the sound would echo off the building right into your window, regardless of what direction you faced. Sometimes it would be so loud the room would shake and stuff would fall over - pretty amazing for a massive 30+ story building..

[KatieKate1244]

Trains run a mere 30 feet from my dorm window. It doesn't bother me anymore.

However, my first college was a stone's throw from the Columbus Airport...first night of college, I got landing lights right in my windows (and eyes). Try sleeping through that!

[MJo19]

Originally Posted by KatieKate1244

Trains run a mere 30 feet from my dorm window. It doesn't bother me anymore.

However, my first college was a stone's throw from the Columbus Airport...first night of college, I got landing lights right in my windows (and eyes). Try sleeping through that!

Did you go to Ohio Dominican? Just curious...

[FAB*SpiceySpice]

I used to get severely annoyed by all the fraternity boys living around us. My sorority house was next door to Farmhouse and Sig Ep with Pike and ATO behind us. Some of the boys like to flash those stupid laser pointer things into our bedroom at night, which made it hard to go to sleep. The Pikes were forever outside breaking shit or hammering stuff together in the middle of the night and I still to this day have no idea why. And of course there was the general loudness of screaming, drunk boys smashing beer cans and bottles while blaring loud music out their windows, at most times of the day.

Ahh, how I miss college life.

[ShamikaT]

I'm not that sensitive to loud noises, unless it's gun shots. I think this may be a white thing.

[KatieKate1244]

Originally Posted by MJo19

Did you go to Ohio Dominican? Just curious...

You are correct! I miss Columbus a lot, and am sort of hoping to head back there for grad school.

[ufdale]

While I think I live in a relatively quiet neighborhood, my neighbor aparently doesn't. She's forever calling the cops on us for no apparent reason. One time the cops came to my house at about 3 AM. We were all VERY asleep, but she seemed to think that we were hammering on her outside walls (??!). Our houses are made of wood and naturally they have nails holding the boards on. There were hammer dents from where the nails were hammered in origninally. She made us all walk in the wet grass as she and the cop examined her walls. She thought my roomate and I were just out hammering on her house at 3 AM! The cops even thought she was crazy.

The cops have been called on me three times this semester for excessive noise (by her probably) yet we have yet to receive a noise violation. She needs to turn down her hearing aids or something because this is annoying.

[MJo19]

Originally Posted by KatieKate1244

You are correct! I miss Columbus a lot, and am sort of hoping to head back there for grad school.

Awesome. I went to Capital, which is relatively close to Dominican. I can see where you would get bothered by the airplanes a lot there.