We had sleeping porches in our house, which took up almost the entire third floor of the house. The windows were kept open year-round, and even in southern Indiana it could get quite cold in the winter, so we just piled on the blankets and slept in warm pj's or sweats. There was no talking allowed and the lights were always kept off. It sounds awful, but actually it was easier to sleep in there than in the dorms. If you wanted to go to bed early, and your roomie was pulling an all-nighter, you'd just go up to the sleeping porch.
We had an elaborate tag system for wake-ups. We would put the tag with our bed number on a bulletin board with hooks that corresponded to half-hour intervals beginning at 6 A.M. and ending at 9 A.M. We rotated "wake-up duty" and had two shifts every morning. Whoever was on wake-up would start at 6, take all the tags hanging on the 6 hook and go around and wake up the people in those beds.
To this day, I still sleep with the covers up over my head, even if it's 90 degrees out!
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