<p>I was just wondering ( im not in college yet btw...), don't alarm clocks wake up your roomate? Its pretty rare to get a roomate that has all your classes, so when your alarm clock goes off doesn't it wake them up? Don't they get annoyed or something?</p>
<p>They'll understand...just use your cell phone alarm and keep it by you so you can turn it off quickly if you're worried.</p>
<p>I guess I got lucky then. My roomie and have have first classes that start at the same time everyday except Thursday. Also, on Tuesday an Thursday mornings she has lifting for Cross Country, but I'm such a heavy sleeper that most mornings I don't even hear her leaving at 6:15am, and if I do I just roll over and go back to sleep. </p>
<p>But do try to get up one time or after hitting the snooze button once. It WILL bother your roomie if your alarm is going off 3 or 4 times before you're actually getting up.</p>
<p>i dont wake up for anything except for uber loud noises... so i feel sorry for my roomate who must get startled everytime my music starts blaring in the morning! But i never wake up for his alarm, lol. Luckily I turn off my alarm quickly, so I think he is usually able to get back to sleep.</p>
<p>It's understandable like the other posters said that even if you have a class earlier than your roommate, that having it ring for like ten seconds and then quickly turning it off is acceptable. But using the snooze button too many times is quite annoying because it means you'll have to go to sleep again say 3-4 times instead of just the once.</p>
<p>I know some people who set their cell phone alarm on vibrate and put it under their pillow. However, I don't really like this idea.</p>
<p>Just use your alarm, your roommate knows that you need an alarm. Here's the thing though, don't EVER let it go off more than three times in the morning (as in, dont hit the snooze button more than two times... heh). Unless your roommate can seriously sleep through it. Over the summer during the second sessoin, my roommate and I had class at the same time, so I didn't have to worry about anything. </p>
<p>However, first session my roommate had class 2 hours before I had mine. I only woke up to his alarm once, and instantly fell back asleep.</p>
<p>Yup, they'll wake up. But they understand. And it's really no big deal.
However, it becomes a big deal if you are a snooze button person. I have no problem with being woken up once. Being woken up every 9 minutes for half an hour is NOT cool. That's where my roommate (and an ex roommate) and I have issues...
My alarm is at the other end of the window sill from where my bed is. I get out of bed quickly and turn it off. Sometimes my roommate doesn't even wake up. Other times she turns over and is obviously asleep moments later.</p>
<p>Like everyone else said, as long as you don't hit the snooze button too often it'll be ok. Besides, their alarm will probably wake you too.</p>
<p>i haven't used an alarm for 3 years; my body wakes up by itself, miraculously.</p>
<p>My roommate never wakes up when an alarm goes off. His alarm wakes me up all the time but never the other way around, which sucks because when he has a class before me I'm lying there listening to this deafeningly loud noise for 10 minutes, until either he finally wakes up or I decide to turn it off myself, or maybe wake him up.</p>
<p>The lesson of the story is that it's better to get a roommate who'll be woken up by an alarm than one who won't. Like others said just don't hit the snooze button too often.</p>
<p>I told my roommate flat out, no snooze. My roommate last semester would set his alarm up 1 hour before he got up, then snooze though that hour. He would then set his cell phones alarm as the one where he really had to get up. That only lasted a few weeks. Then I stopped that.</p>
<p>My roommates alarm never bothers me, only the first day then I never notice it anymore.</p>
<p>Yeah, if you behave reasonably, your roommate can't really complain about your alarm clock. Everyone has to be able to wake up somehow for class.</p>
<p>Every year, at the beginning of the year, I'm a light sleeper, and I'll wake up when my roommate's alarm clock goes off or as she's getting ready for class. Then, after a month or so of this, I notice that I wake up less. If she opens the door after I go to sleep, I don't usually wake up after I've gotten a chance to get used to little noises like that as I'm asleep. It's as though my brain begins to filter out which noises are ones that need my attention and which ones aren't, and I just sleep through the ones that my roommate makes getting ready for bed or for class. Now, since I sleep on the top bunk, I'll never be able to filter out the overhead light.</p>
<p>That's what my roommate does Vinny. </p>
<p>If I don't have class as early as him he'll keep snoozing his alarm waking me up along with him. It makes me sooo mad.</p>
<p>right now (high school) each of us (3 brothers) sleep in the same room. We all wake up at different times. But for some reason, cell phone alarms never wake us up. For some reason, the only alarm that wakes me up is my cell phone alarm. All the others have no effect whatsoever...</p>
<p>My roommate and I both set our cell phone alarms about an hour or so before we want to wake up and just hit snooze 5 or 6 times before actually getting up. Mine is loud enough to wake myself up, but my roommate's a "wicked sound sleepa" so it doesn't wake him. His alarm (ACDC's "Back in Black") is a lot louder than mine...which is ok with me, since I should be walking out the door by the time it goes off for the first time.</p>
<p>My roommate's classes all start before mine, and she uses a radio alarm clock which doesn't bother me. I have a louder alarm, but since I get up later than she does, it doesn't matter. On the few days when I do get up earlier, I turn it off as quickly as I can. =)</p>
<p>use a cell phone right by your bed and limit the snoozes.</p>
<p>Meh I wouldn't worry about it, what are you going to do? Just don't keep pressing snooze, that is annoying.</p>
<p>My roommate gets up before me on weekdays, but her alarm sounds like a phone, or sometimes just classical music, so I never wake up to it. And then she's gone when I wake up.</p>
<p>I have 8:30 classes four days a week (have to wake up at 7am) and both of my roommates don't need to wake until 10am or so. So, yeah, I'm sure it annoys the hell out of them. I try to be reasonable but I was given these early classes--first semester frosh don't choose their class times here--so I don't really feel bad about it. I use my cell alarm once and then I set my iHome alarm for 15 minutes later as a backup. Sometimes I'll reset my cell alarm. But I'm super quick at getting up--as soon as the alarm starts going off I run over to shut it off within a second.</p>
<p>Also in the morning--I know some roommates cannot have ANY light. Yeah. I kind of said "screw them" to this one, too. I'm not getting ready for the day in the dark four days a week. But again, I'm respectful about it and turn on one light that's by the sink and not the beds.</p>
<p>If I had a roommate that said no snooze or no lights in the morning, I say **** them. There has to be some kind of mutual understanding. Yeah, you want to sleep, but I have to get things done. You can go to bed earlier--I have class NOW.</p>
<p>It's also really annoying when your roommate wants all the lights on/TV on/music on until 2am when you have to be up at 7am.</p>
<p>AGHHH! Roommates.</p>