I think there are some basic guidelines one should follow when one lives with roommates and uses an alarm clock.
First and foremost, turn it down to the lowest volume possible that will still wake you up. This minimizes the chances that you will wake up your roommates which is just the The Right Thing To Do.
But if, even at that low of a volume, your roommates can *still* here your alarm, there are a couple of things you can do to minimize the impact of your alarm on them. One is to not snooze the alarm incessantly. While you might want more sleep, so do your roommates who are being incessantly awakened by your alarm. Don't make them suffer because you choose to ignore your alarm.
More and more of us are using are cell phones are alarm clocks. That's handy since we keep our cell phone nearby and it removes the need of having a separate alarm clock. Plus it is always with us, so we can have an alarm even when we are not at home. But don't make the ringer sound like a phone! We are all habitually programmed to want to answer a ringing phone. When you have an alarm that sounds like one other people can easily wake up to it, trying to find the phone that needs answering. But when it is not a phone that needs answering but your roommate's alarm it can tick you off. And if that roommate keeps hitting snooze it **really** pisses you off.
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or have me as the alarm :) I always put my alarm under my pillow, thus muffling the noise for everyone else, and forcing me to get up from the pillow in order to get to the alarm.
Poor Brett ;___;
Brett, I'm really sorry that I disturbed your sleep.
I really expected myself to wake up, but as it was, I was a lot more tired than I thought I was from the previous week of hell. (You could probably also see that since I spend most of the rest of the weekend practically passed out.) So hopefully, with that in mind, I hope that you can understand where I'm coming from. The alarm was set with the intent of me actually getting up because I had plans to see cousins I hadn't seen in 14 years. I really wouldn't have minded if you had come over to my room and yelled at me to turn off my alarm or to change the ring tone. Yes. Yell. That's what happens when a person tries to do too much, I guess. I would've probably appreciated the wake up call. So, if you are still mad at me, we can discuss this further offline.
Again, my sincerest apologies.
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