<p>I'm living on the first floor of a dorm and just moved back in after winter break. I left a light source on in my room to sleep, but I woke up early to see a brown wriggling object the size of a small rat or large cockroach coming into my room through the crack under my door. It is now under my bed and I am terrified of pests. What should I do??? Please help!!</p>
<p>^^^^^eat it</p>
<p>Airsoft party anyone?</p>
<p>You can purchase traps, make a mixture to kill them, or you could possibly log a call with the maintenance department</p>
<p>I really hate ticks!</p>
<p>Well, you sort of answered this yourself, because you decided that your first course of action should be to create a new College Confidential account and post a query asking advice as to what to do next.</p>
<p>In view of that, I would run for your life because, clearly, the rat-roach is bound to outwit you if you tried anything more complicated than making a frenzied getaway.</p>
<p>hahahahahhaahhaa D’yer Maker</p>
<p>Ask your dorm head if you can borrow his or her shotgun (most of them keep a loaded one by the door). If that doesn’t work, follow D’yer’s advice.</p>
<p>Deerfield’s a relatively big school so I seriously doubt the dorm parents use shotguns, fif. I’m pretty sure the dorm parents at the bigger schools go with automatics.</p>
<p>Are you sure it wasn’t a coyote? I hear they run rampant in that part of Western Massachusetts.</p>
<p>They do run rampant around here, those coyotes! I think it might have been a rabid bat. That would explain the mouse vibe.</p>
<p>D’yer - you might be right, as times have changed. In fif’s experience however, most dorm masters kept a 12 guage with #2 buck shot (sometimes a pumpkin ball) at the ready in case of an “insurrection” or the rare musktrat.</p>