By Melanie HaidColumnist

In the past few weeks it has luckily been warmer than your typical October, however it doesn’t really excuse the fact that almost every week we’ve had the fire alarm go off in Estabrook – as well as some of the other residential buildings.

Now, even as a freshman, I know that we have to have fire drills for our buildings, but it somehow seems that three times in a month is a bit excessive. On the third night, I got a bit curious and asked the sheriff-looking Public Safety officer what was going on and why we were having them all the time. At this point it was 2 a.m., and all he answered back was “smoke-heads.”

I zombie-walked back up to the dorm and didn’t think about it much until the morning, but the next day it really hit me: people smoking in the dorms almost made me late for class at 8 a.m. and have continuously jolted me out of much-needed sleep with the shrill sound of the fire alarm.

Not only is it cold outside at these dark hours of the night, but it’s conveniently also when the sprinkler systems turn on – but who wouldn’t love being soaking wet, cranky and sleep-deprived, right?

The worst part is that it’s not just Estabrook either. Stuyvesant and Constitution have been having a frequent fire drill problem as well. Stop cutting a half-hour to an hour out of your entire building’s sleep just because you want to get high in the comfort of your own room.

Break all the rules you want, just leave the rest of us out of it. I’m fully aware that there’s no way around it, people are always going to smoke whether there are rules against it or not, but can you at least do it in a way that doesn’t set off the smoke alarms at 3 a.m. on a Tuesday?

Listen, I get it, it’s fun and it’s a great way to ease your stress but do us all a favor: take it outside, hotbox your car, open a window. I don’t even care if you’re discreet about it, just please for the love of everything good in this world: let me sleep.

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