Keep in mind that many of these universities also demand many students stay in these hell holes of dorms with the loud goal of fostering a community, the quiet goal of discouraging drinking, and the unspoken goal of skewering us for more money. In my case, my school has the brilliant idea of shutting down the entire campus during all of the breaks. Most notably the dining service they demand I rely on. Unlike other students, I don't have a home I can go back to, so I'm required to subsist on the approximately $5 I have left over after I finish paying for their obtuse dining service (that I'm also required to pay for).
@@makssachs8914 Not with student loans it isn't the system is rigged and everyone knows the riggers! The university system itself with the college board mainly higher ed and academia are the largest monopoly that has yet to be dismantled. Universities are the socialist politburos paradise. Infinite money, infinite inflation. Welcome to reality welcome to the bloc; da comrade.
@@makssachs8914 It's more general than that. It's what happens when there's no choice, and thus no accountability. Universities basically have a monopoly over student life for 4 years and can insist on whatever terms they want there, since the academic credentialing portion is always a bigger factor. This kind of behavior is normal across the whole society in communist countries, and in the socialized/progressive pockets, such as public education, housing, and healthcare, of otherwise capitalist ones. Industries that aren't able to stop competition from showing up typically treat their customers the best.
There's another reason you may or may not know, which I learned from my mother, a professor. Student suicides. Freshmen, especially at high tier colleges/unis, come in thinking they're the bee's knees from doing well at High School, but then the big pond sees their egos wrecked so violently that their mental health plummets. This is especially common in kids with poor home lives, who had no father or mother or were orphans. Keeping freshmen/first years on campus, close to people keeping an eye on their mental state, was a major reason in that rule. But, capitalism bled into it like it does everything. The financial strain worsens mental health, which becomes a convenient excuse to continue forcing this rule on students.
Im 27 Not once in my entire school life had the gpa has any influence on my classes or my current job or life goals. I honestly never gave a shit about GPA
Bro, my middle school had a "bomb at [some time]" written on a bathroom stall. As much as I'd like to complain about some of the school's practices, the ENTIRE school was evacuated for several hours while the building was combed through. They didn't have us shelter in place. Public schools seem to be far more equipped in terms of protocol for shooters, bomb threats, and drug busts than a college campus with three, probably five times, the budget. Your college knowingly endangered that entire building during the bomb scare, not to mention knowingly keeping you in a building with an attempted arsonist.
Doesn't even matter if they knew. Keeping and even locking people in a building where a fire alarm goes off (meaning danger) is reckless, dumb and extremely dangerous. Fire alarm means EVACUATE the building.
We had swat raid a dorm and find a shit ton of drugs and guns after someone got shot and possibly bled out on my friends doorstep, they never cleaned up the blood.
This is the sad truth of all emergency situations. The police enforce the law, they arrest potential offenders and restore calm. Emergency services techs stabilize wounded patients at the scene (defibrillate, provide cardiopulmonary resusitation, apply tourniquets, field dress wounds, etc) and bring them to the most suitable place for treatment (hospital, trauma center, emergency field triage unit). Funeral personnel transport the decedent's body and prepare it for subsequent cremation, burial, and any viewing or memorial services. In all cases, these people do not provide hazardous waste and cleaning services. There are specialized companies that are typically hired to help families and companies clean-up areas where bodily fluids were released and risk the transmission of blood borne pathogens to those who remain. Universities (especially on the residential and student life side of things) typically do not have staff members who have received the necessary training to clean up biological hazmats. They usually outsource this to the specialized companies. EMTs and hospitals typically have trained staff members to effectively and safely clean up biological contamination as they need to reuse the beds, gurneys, ambulances, and other equipment. As for the police, I wouldn't suggest getting any open wounds too close to the upholstery in a police car (front or back seats).
@@storytimewithjeff im kinda surprised you didn't talk about the shared bathrooms, my dorm had 8 toilets and 8 showers for 32 kids, and that shit was so disgusting that i would drive myself to the ymca to take a shower. i once had a mf take a bite of my bar of soap in the shared showers.
@@MattIsBored322 wowza, 8 toilets, you must have been living in luxury dorms! We had 4 toilets for ~30 rooms, each with 2-3 people (the rooms are designed for 2 people but they just "tripled" you if they ran out of space, hahaha no problem right?). So all in all it was a good 75 people for 4 toilets. The outcome? Actually not as bad as you think, because there was an emergent phenomenon where people would tend to pee in the toilet closest to the entrance to the bathroom. What would happen is this toilet would get so disgusting with dried piss on the seat, floor, and bowl, that everyone understood it was the piss toilet, and so they further concentrated their piss efforts there. This left the other 3 toilets actually rather clean, as they only got used for daily bowel movements and college life means you are spending a lot of time on campus using the public bathrooms anyway. One time I saw a guy go into the piss toilet stall and sit down to take a shit though, I am pretty sure he also had schizophrenia so there was definitely a screw loose with that guy.
There was an epidemic of people pulling fire alarms on other people's floors when I was in residence... 4 times one Sunday night was brutal. Classes were hard the next day. Whoever's floor it was, everyone got a $5 fine. Made zero sense, because it was always someone from another floor falsely pulling it. If you didn't vacate the building, you could get in a lot of trouble. I forget if it was a fine or a strike against you that could get you evicted.
Back when I was in college, at least every 3 weeks from about 12 am to 4 am, the fire alarm would go off. It was usually someone trying to microwave ramen or macaroni without water. Geniuses
Honestly, if it was 1 person who made the mistake of not putting water in the ramen/macaroni cups, it would make sense. I’ve made the mistake of somehow cooking those French bread pizza things while somehow forgetting to add the cheese on it multiple times. And those were on days where I wasn’t high or sleep deprived (atleast some of them probably were atleast)
@@storytimewithjeff this is next level stupid to me. If they somehow forgot to add it one day and complained without realizing, understandable. But just not doing it at all? We’re they trying to save money or something?
One time, a student (who lived right across the hall from me) was arrested for making threats to other students over social media, to the point where some people thought it was an active-shooter situation. Meanwhile, I had been off-campus all day and had no clue what had happened. When the RA's called an "emergency floor meeting" at 10:00 pm, and I asked what had happened and why we were having this meeting... they refused to tell me.
one time a middle school I used to go to (not when this happened) got a shooting threat over instagram (it was a photo of a gun and the name of the school with a threat) they didn't even close school
@@user6122 my school receives a lot of threats, probably not serious threats so school isnt closed but students get to decide whether or not to go to school
Its shit. The football dudes in the room next to me set off the fire alarm 3 times in the first semester by microwaving cup-o noodles 3 times without water in the cup. A brick is an intellectual challenge for them.
Last time the fire alarm went off in my dorm, I overheard someone saying it’s “just another drill” but I’m pretty sure they don’t call the fire trucks and police for drills.
This video is the reason why I'd rather commute than live on campus. Plus the fact that they only had triple rooms, as if it wasn't enough points of failure already
To give the fire alarm some credit, it knows the cafeteria is part of the same building, but the administration is the one that’s mentally lacking to say they aren’t the same building
The university where I live requires out of county freshman to live on campus. It’s like $1700 a month for a prison cell plus dining fees and they’ve been buying up the properties just off campus which used to have a few small grocery stores, cheap restaurants, dollar stores, thrift stores for clothes, barber shops and other student essentials and turning them into more even more expensive housing and warehouses for books and other proprietary stuff. It’s an absolute racket and terribly for both the town and the students.
Last year I lived in university housing, and the overall incompetence was absolutely insane. One day there was a short earthquake, not intense enough to destroy stuff but strong enough to move things around. Most of us left the building on our own becaude noone in the staff bothered to activate the alarm. We waited 30 mins outside in the middle of winter until we just decided to go back inside, just to find the receptionists chilling in bicycle area, completely unbothered by the fact that some people may have been inside. Another time a truck was set on fire on the sidewalk, luckily i lived on the other side but some people had windows open, not a nice week for them
We had a "serial shitter" in my dorm. I don't know how, I don't want to know how, I REALLY shouldn't have to wonder how, but somebody managed to fill an entire toilet (and I do mean entire, they packed so much shit in there that it was peaking out the top of the bowl even after being pressed down) and still have enough to coat the walls, floor, and ceiling on MULTIPLE OCCASIONS. They never caught the guy.
At Walmart, every now and then, someone gets in the first stall with, and I can only guess is, explosive diarrhea and paints the entire toilet seat, walls, floor, and door in shit. It's awful
Wait, they knew there was a fire and potential arsonist on the loose in your building, and they LOCKED you IN!? Where the heck did you go to school!? The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory!?
If the school built many of its dorms during the era of Brutalism as was suggested by the "gulag" freshman dorm story, the buildings themselves are designed to be fire and arson resistant and it often is safer to shelter in place as automated systems activate to isolate the area by triggering door releases, the closed doors will normally starve the fire of oxygen sources, protect other areas from smoke infiltration, and contain the fire to a limited area of the building. If the fire gets hot enough automated sprinklers may fire to suppress the fire. These buy extra time for firefighters to extinguish what remains without having to contend with a reverse flow of students and staff exiting the building. This is why administrators and fire officials are so adamant about not propping doors open even in spring and fall. A propped door in a fire escape can prevent all floors from exiting as the fire stairs fill with smoke and feed a fire oxygen effectively trapping all of the occupants. Shelter in place is used in a wide variety of settings and is near universally standard in health and elder care settings due to the vulnerability of residents. Brutalist buildings especially libraries on university campuses were built with fire and asset protection in mind. The concrete is naturally fire resistant, the narrow and often inaccessible from ground level windows were designed in part with civil unrest in mind. A librarian friend of mine explained this fun fact about university architecture and library science with me.
@@deeznoots6241 Shelter in place can work even without a sprinkler system depending on the materials of construction and airflow considerations. If the building is primarily reinforced concrete for example, simply closing doorways to limit airflow and stopping the HVAC system may be enough to prevent spread of the fire. The fire may consume the available oxygen more quickly than fresh air can enter the area limiting the fire without water. Waterless methods of snuffing fire are important in a lot of settings where water use would be extremely dangerous. Kitchen fires involving hot oil are greatly worsened by water which initially sinks in the hot oil due to density, but can then flash boil if the oil is many times hotter than 100°C. Now converting to steam at the bottom of the oil volume the bubbles of gaseous water spray the burning oil on surfaces around the fire like cabinets, countertops, and the person who threw water on the oil fire. Snuffing the fire by limiting oxygen availability with a large pot lid is super effective for these types of fires. As electric cars have become more common other forms of extinguishing have become much more necessary due to the combustible metals in EV batteries. You may have heard fire depts complaining about vehicle fires that won't extinguish or reignite multiple times after dousing with water. For lithium fires, a "type D" fire extinguisher suitable for metal fires is best. It uses a dry powder with graphite, granulated salt (sodium chloride), and fine copper instead of water.
Getting kinda tired of getting notifications every week that there is another new reply on a year old post, so I'm just going to address it all here. Never said anything about the shelter in place order. I understand that for certain situations shelter in place makes sense. My issue was the fact that they locked them in, AND placed obstructions in front of that locked exit. In many places obstructing a method of egress in a fire is a crime. And if the fire spread and they had to give out the order to evacuate rather than shelter, they would now be possibly condemning people to death as the locked doors at the very least would complicate or exacerbate evacuation times. Just because there are sprinklers and methods of fire suppression doesn't mean you can lock people in a building. Those methods fail all the time. It's half the reason they are called fire suppression and not fire killer 9000 systems. Because many times thier only job is to suppress a raging fire long enough to facilitate a safer evacuation. Something a locked door would actively prevent.
I only spent a few weeks living in a dorm during COVID and I quickly got out so I could commute. Because of social distancing mandates each inmate had a single, two-bed furnished bedroom to themselves. Unlike how dorms can be full of obnoxiously loud neighbors, this hall had the exact opposite problem that drove me borderline anxious: deafening silence. I'm pretty sure I was alone on that floor for the first 2 weeks of the semester because I could you not never caught sight of a living soul doing laundry, cooking in the lounge, studying in the conference rooms, or using the elevators (except the women's dorm). Sleeping was as unsettling as the Shining hotel (I didn't have a fan). It really felt like a solitary penitentiary, so I really spent most of the time studying in the library.
My dorm building's fire alarms were straight up broken. One night there was a small kitchen fire that set off the building's fire alarms. The bottom 7 floors worked as intended. But where I was up on floor 13, only the lights of the alarms went off. At the time, I was asleep in my room (it was a suite set-up) which didn't have any alarm lights in it. I woke up to my group text of folks also in the building super confused as to why people were evacuating. The next day, they put signs up saying essentially that the fire alarms had 'technical issues' and that to make up for these problems, students would have to be 'extra diligent'. Mind you, this was a massive 14-floor building attached to three other similarly sized dorms, with thousands and thousands of students staying there. The rooms were so high that none of the windows opened in case of jumpers. If there had been a real fire in that building, it would be a BIG problem.
Dude I honestly have no Idea how you didn't have multiple RA's come up dead lmao to be able to drag someone out of their shower without getting thumbs in the eyes
The best RAs are the long time ones who realized that reporting everything just stresses them out more than anything. Had one that was a grad student and had been at it since sophomore year straight up tell us that if he doesn't see it, he won't report it because the paperwork is terrible. Even got mad with us when an unannounced drill occurred.
Sorry that you had so many issues with your dorm and fires. I also ended up having a hellish time with mine. My dorm ended up having 44 fire alarms across 2 semesters this year, with 3 nights alone each having 2 in one night, and another having 3 alarms go off. The alarms were also hyper-sensitive, so febreze and even the steam from our showers was enough to set them off. They didn’t even fix this issue until the parents started to complain to the Residence department, whereafter they retuned the alarms. Only took them 6 months to come to the conclusion that maybe it wasn’t just engineering undergrads being stupid, but an actual fault with the fire alarm system.
To be fair, it does make sense for the two fire alarms to be connected. The buildings aren't physically separated, so a fire in one could spread to the other easily, and with a taller dorm building if the lower floors were on fire the people upstairs would have an unfortunate situation.
If you all believe that this is "gulag" like or dystopian, please understand that you are all the product of multiple generations of plenty and have no concept of what hard times are. You, your parents, and likely your grandparents almost assuredly never had to stand in a food line of any kind. For three generations, your families have likely lived as the most privileged people in the most prosperous and most stable period of human history. You have never feared being drafted into military service and had 12 years of free public education and supplemental school breakfast and lunches available to you even if you never utilized those programs. You have not feared for debilitating diseases like polio, yellow fever, cholera, measles, small pox, HIV, tuberculosis, pertussis, mumps, hepatitis A, B, and recently C, and for many of you likely HPV due to the modern vaccination regime. These are unprecedented times, and we are the children of the long summer one might say. Appreciate what splendors you have been given and if you don't appreciate them, expand your horizons with travel to areas of the world where folks have the least. Globally, the most children born at any time are surviving and it is a testament to our achievements. Yet, daily babies and young people die prematurely due to famine, pestilence, and war. Until you've walked into a village in West Africa or Southeast Asia and seen mother unable to walk due to malaria infections or looked into the eyes of people who were grateful for the ability to attend a charity school for 6 years and with no further education available to them, you have no conception of what suffering is. Be thankful for what you have, as your descendants if you are so lucky to have any may not enjoy the many splendors of which you currently whine
Besides the miswired alarms, its weird that they treat the buildings as separate. My university has the dining hall and gym attached and their alarms go off together (but you can't access one through the other). I would think that makes more sense because if there really is a large fire, it can easily spread between the buildings
I was one of those people who was dragged out of the shower during an early morning fire drill. I had shorts and a t shirt and I asked the ra if I could at least get my jacket before stepping into the below freezing Weather but apparently that was against the rules
It actually does make sense for the fire alarms to be connected if the buildings are. The fire does not give a shit if the door between the two are locked.
I’m starting college this semester and I am pretty excited, for everything except the dorms. Everyone tells that “oh it’ll be great” and I’m just thinking that living with a whole bunch of people my age will be hell on earth. Maybe I’ll be wrong (please god let me be wrong) but if I’m right, I’ll be the most active student in all my classes if only to avoid going into my dorm.
@@peterk.2108 Prolly ass. You should jsut commute. Its lonely asf but its alright. Idk if I regret my decision to commute over dorms. But their so expensive that I would rather shoot myself
Honestly don't blame the technicians for having the minimal intelligence to understand two buildings are connected, blame the staff for trying to split atoms like idiots. If a fire starts in one it could spread to the other, so its a fire hazard to not allow movement between buildings for more exits.
Bro I was an RA and the massive 500 person dorm I was part of had 45 false fire alarms in ONE SEMESTER. All activating because of either shower steam or people who couldn’t cook.
I am struggling to pay off my first years dues. Meanwhile my fasfa grants are gonna cover my next semesters completely. Campus living is fucking expensive, and I am glad to move out. The other students would always harass me for wanting to enter my dorm early at night. That was because I was at work.
Attached buildings have to have attached fire alarms. I remember living in a duplex with separate fire alarms systems that caught on fire once. Not knowing of the fire until the fire until I smelled smoke coming from next door. I envy the fact that your school takes fire safety seriously.
I lived in this dorm my freshman year that was in the basement of the building. There was a stream that ran through the area that my dorm was in, and my room was the closest to the stream of any rooms in the building (was this related to the issue? I'll never know). During my first semester, there was no issues really, but because this university is in southwest Ohio, we get a bunch of rain in the spring. So spring comes around, and my room doesn't flood, but became extremely humid, and water condensed *everywhere* and in *large quantities*. So one morning I wake up and there's like three quarters of a millimeter of water on *EVERYTHING*. I ask my RA, who was totally unwilling to help anybody, if I can have a dehumidifier, and I explain the problem. He says he'll get back to me. He never does. I ask him two or three more times, eventually he tells me that I'm not allowed to have one. Okay. So I go to the RD, who was a TOTAL asshole, describe the problem, and he says "that's impossible for me to do." At this point I've been living with the whole "I wake up and there's 3/4ths a millimeter of water on everything" thing for about 3 weeks now, and I was reaaaaally angry about it. So I go to the old underpaid townie ladies who work for the school and get treated like crap by the rest of these ungrateful 18 year olds, and they sort of know who I am because I was like the only student in the hall who would talk to them. I explain the situation to them and they're like, "that's ridiculous that you're going through that! Come with me sugar." I shit you not, they walk me to a supply closet and there is fifteen dehumidifiers just sitting on the ground. They tell me to take 2 because of the degree of the issue. I thank them profusely, and I live with that for a while. Crisis averted, and all I had to do was just pour out water twice a day. No big deal right? WRONG! I'm not sure if it was because of the increased electrical demand coming from my room because of the two dehumidifiers, or if it was some other thing, but about a month after I got the dehumidifiers, my room started losing power. The first time it happened, my roommate and I thought it was a power outage and I didn't think much of it, but we heard the fucking Fortnite theme playing at max volume next door, and we were like, "wait, this is only our room!" So I go down to the RA and I explain the sitation and he goes "okay well what do you want me to do about it?" Seething, I calmly told him that I'd like him to get in touch with whoever he needs to get in touch with to fix the situation. He dodges that responsibility, and gives me the number to the electric company the building uses. I give them a call, they come by like 12 hours later, they tell me they don't know why or how but the circuit that leads to my room got turned off and needs to be reset and replaced. I'm like okay sure. So they replace it and in my head I'm like "okay that was weird let's move on." No. It happened again like two days later. I had to call the company again. Then again about a week later. Then again about a week after that. Then it happened again the *literal same day*. I was livid. I went down to the RD and demanded to be out of that room within the day or I was going to sue the university (I absolutely did not have the means to do it but I figured it was the only thing that would make this guy budge). He moved me 5 seconds later. The sequel story to the next room is a story for another day. P.S. I'm nearly 100% certain the conditions in that room made me sick 24/7 because when I moved in I got diarrhear that wouldn't quit for the whole semester... except, curiously, when I went home for Thanksgiving and Winter breaks. Upon return, it came back, and then disappeared entirely when I was moved to a new room. College rocks dude, to think that in such a place, I almost fucking killed myself (some people will get this reference, shoutout to you if you do, isn't our alma mater wonderful?)
That first story reminded me of something that happened at my college. Our anime club was hosting some sort of scavenger hunt around campus but didn't tell whoever you're supposed to for doing so. One part of the scavenger hunt was finding a box on one of the tables in an outdoor area, I assume for the next clue of the scavenger hunt or maybe the final prize or whatever else. Whatever the case, I think someone was just walking along and saw an unattended package left in a public area, so the fucking bomb squad got called in and they had to go in and defuse what I imagine was an anime figure or something.
My student housing story: Campus was so crowed, they converted all the "doubles" into "triples". A bit tight, but manageable. Being freshmen, we were open to all kinds of mischief. One guy spent the quarter hitting up all the frat houses, developed a drinking problem and dropped out. Another was apparently "exploring his sexuality" and spending way too much time in the dorm showers. Sexuality guy, and another fellow were bored one evening and decided to explore "what would happen if you threw burning bags of trash down the shoot from the 4th floor". The predictable results became apparent at 2am with a fire that forced evacuation of the dorm. (And in my version, it was 2am before the 8am Physic mid-term.) Appears the only repercussion was to move the two trouble makers to other dorms, with rooms adjacent to the R.A., who would keep and eye on them. Sex guy later dropped out, and entered the priesthood. (no, not making this up.)
Goddamn, My school is just under 12k a year (4k for me with scholarship), around 16k with housing, and the campus and all the faculty(with a few exceptions) are nice and responsive, we always have security patrolling 24/7 and we never have to do any drill bs all we have is an inspection like once a semester to see if we have anything we're not supposed to have like a gas stove or candles, but they don't even care about the candles. WTF kinda school is that where you have to pay that much and everything is that shit? Only Incident we've had for the 3 years I've been here is this semester a car with illegal fireworks caught fire and got the 2 cars next to it as well. Now that I think about it, every "big school" I've toured is kinda shit compared to the less known ones I've visited in my opinion, in our dorms its 4 bedrooms connected to a main area so it's cheaper for everyone, this other school that I almost went too was the same more or less from what I could tell and it was about the same price for tuition and room and board. Expensive schools seem like a rip off.
Pretty much my experience as well. Lots of diamonds in the rough when it comes to college, and even in the bad spaces, most people still leave college with a positive opinion on it.
To be fair a fire can happen at any time they have to practice like it's the real thing and considering how many arsonists your school seems to admit the fire drills are very important
99.999999% sure they have to have the fire alarms for the dorm and the dining hall wired into the same system because it is technically one building, if one fire alarm goes off, they all should
Whenever I see the fire alarm switches I get this unexplainable urge to trigger it, like when your brain goes "hey what happens if I put my hand in the burner fire" so I can understabd why a few students lit trashcans on fire.
Ok but like If the buildings are connected, A fire in one constitutes a fire in the other, since fire, like. Spreads. And also considering that they're the same building. So it makes sense that the alarms in that case would be wired into the same circuit. If your living room catches on fire, you'd want to know that from your bedroom, regardless of any weird "go out your window and come in through the front door" rules your overbearing roommate set up for whatever reason. Everything else was agreeably headassery, but that last bit -- while annoying -- actually makes some sense.
The entirety of this experience reminds me of living in the barracks in the army. The fire alarms were also a monthly thing that went off whenever but it didn't matter because some jackasses would always set it off anyway usually by cooking ramen without water or some other cooking mistake. Because of the frequency of it happening, the majority of people didn't bother going outside to wait and just stayed in their rooms continuing to do whatever they were doing and just tolerated the earsplitting noise. Thankfully none of this ever happened while I was on CQ.
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So wait, they knew there was some sort of fire in the building, so their reaction was to recall everyone to the building, then barricade and lock the doors?
I just remember that my freshman year we had a bunch of power outages. Another was that there was a smoke in the boiler room and we had to sleep somewhere else for the night. The dorms were COVID housing too, fun times.
I bet the fire alarms had to be connected by law since it was a shared structure. A fire wouldn't give a shit about the university's "well actually they're two buildings" bs.
My dorm neighbor freshman year was slightly unhinged. We both loved hiking, but she thought that 6 AM on a Saturday was the best time for it, so she would bang on my door to wake me (and my roommate) up every Saturday. Finally our RA told her she had to stop making such a ruckus so early in the morning, so she stole my room key, made a copy of it at Lowe’s, and would instead shake me awake every weekend. Despite this insanity, we became very close friends, which ended up really screwing me up junior year when she passed away after being hit by a drunk driver. Turns out there’s no better way to tank your GPA than to slip into a deep depression
I spent one semester at my school living on campus. The only memorable points were when some guy shit ON the bathroom floor 3 separate times (as far as I know), and someone planning a party in one of the dorm rooms that immediately got busted up by the RA's
Nothing nearly that bad but back when I went to college, they had this stupid policy where all freshman were FORCED to live in dorms. NO exceptions. Even those who KNOW without a shadow of a doubt that it is a terrible policy because some people need peace and quite to sleep and NEED a healthy amount of sleep to be functional at all even on a basic monkey brain level....people like me. So, picture this. You just finished studying all night for an exam that you already know is gonna be a nail biter in terms of whether or not you will even pass it because, you know, there's an entire sect of math that deals with something literally called _I_M_A_G_I_N_A_R_Y_ NUMBERS (like who the hell makes that up and it wasn't a practical joke gone wrong). You finally get to bed at like 3 in the morning. This was the set up for something that actually eventually led to getting a special case excuse for me to not be forced to live in the shit-holes known as dorms my freshman year (or any year after as well because fuck dorms) during my very first semester in college. Now, our dorms were probably like most, are made of cider blocks with paint directly on said cinder blocks because fuck sound deadening materials, I guess. Also, again like probably most student housing, you'll get paired with some rando if you didn't sign up with a friend beforehand and request to be roomed together. The guy I got paired up with was a troglodyte and he thought it would be a great idea to wake me up AT 5:30 IN THE FUCKING MORNING to show me a cut on his big toe......like REALLY? I have a big exam in my 8 o'clock that you've seen me studying for over the past few weeks and you decide to wake me up, DRUNK, to show me you're big-fucking-toe?!?! (Said person would later on be expelled due to being found passed out in their room with a blood alcohol content JUST below the level that would literally kill you). Needless to say, the next day (after actually getting a B some-fucking-how on that exam while running on roughly 4-ish hours of sleep which to some is plenty of sleep to take an exam on...I am not one of those people...), I went to the person in charge of ALL the student housing and told them what happened, that I am a person that really does need the normal 9 hours of sleep to function as a basic human being, and that the dorms were not only NOT providing that but are also the SOLE reason I'm at risk of dropping out due to failing classes because I cant even keep my eyes open in them let alone even be able to wake up in time for them (lots more stories on why those are the case as well but that's for another time). They finally relented and let me live in an apartment complex off campus instead of being forced to live in the pig st-I mean dorms. Nice, one-bedroom apartment in a nice and quite area just off campus surrounded by actual families and not monkeys disguised as student so was peaceful all year long. GPA immediately shot up and graduated many years later while still living in that same apartment. Moral of the story, school boards: DONT FORCE ALL FRESHMAN TO LIVE IN DORMS! SOME PEOPLE ACTUALLY NEED THIS NEW THING CALLED SLEEP TO DO BASIC THINGS LIKE LIVING!
The dorm I've been living in for the past three years is actually kinda nice, but that's because it's built and maintained by a company separate from my college. It's more like the college rents it out and then sublets to students. There are businesses on the first floor of the dorm as well. Last year, there was construction going on in one of the business units on the first floor. Someone forgot to disconnect the fire detectors in the construction space. This resulted in the fire alarms going off in the entire building multiple times a day for at least a week. People stopped caring after the second or third alarm on the first day it started happening.
My university does the same bs with fire drills. They always happened between 6 and 8 pm on the busiest day of midterms, usually Wednesday or Thursday. So everyone spilling out of these dorms are either pissed because they've been working on a timed midterm that they now cant finish because of this fire drill. The fire chief or whoever was the one always going on a power trip about "if you guys keep taking this long I'm gonna hold the fire drill at 4am. To which literally everyone told him to piss off and they just wont come out of the dorm. Overtime my friends and later roommate would sneak off to the dorm across the dining hall across the street and get some food until the drill was over. Until recently when we learned that no one comes by to actually check if the dorms are empty so we just put on noise cancelling headphones and stay inside.
This dude mistook an arson home for a college dorm.
Yea
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An arson home?
@@rugbybeefa home with arsons in it
Keep in mind that many of these universities also demand many students stay in these hell holes of dorms with the loud goal of fostering a community, the quiet goal of discouraging drinking, and the unspoken goal of skewering us for more money.
In my case, my school has the brilliant idea of shutting down the entire campus during all of the breaks. Most notably the dining service they demand I rely on. Unlike other students, I don't have a home I can go back to, so I'm required to subsist on the approximately $5 I have left over after I finish paying for their obtuse dining service (that I'm also required to pay for).
That’s rampant capitalism for you.
@@makssachs8914 Not with student loans it isn't the system is rigged and everyone knows the riggers! The university system itself with the college board mainly higher ed and academia are the largest monopoly that has yet to be dismantled. Universities are the socialist politburos paradise. Infinite money, infinite inflation. Welcome to reality welcome to the bloc; da comrade.
@@makssachs8914 It's more general than that. It's what happens when there's no choice, and thus no accountability. Universities basically have a monopoly over student life for 4 years and can insist on whatever terms they want there, since the academic credentialing portion is always a bigger factor. This kind of behavior is normal across the whole society in communist countries, and in the socialized/progressive pockets, such as public education, housing, and healthcare, of otherwise capitalist ones. Industries that aren't able to stop competition from showing up typically treat their customers the best.
There's another reason you may or may not know, which I learned from my mother, a professor. Student suicides. Freshmen, especially at high tier colleges/unis, come in thinking they're the bee's knees from doing well at High School, but then the big pond sees their egos wrecked so violently that their mental health plummets. This is especially common in kids with poor home lives, who had no father or mother or were orphans. Keeping freshmen/first years on campus, close to people keeping an eye on their mental state, was a major reason in that rule. But, capitalism bled into it like it does everything. The financial strain worsens mental health, which becomes a convenient excuse to continue forcing this rule on students.
@@Jootunn How has capitalism bled into it? The trillions of dollars of crushing student loan debt have come from the government.
"Sleep is temporary, GPA is forever" is the saddest but most accurate thing I've seen regarding education now
Alot of my college mates cannot fathom why I'm taking the bare minimum amount of classes, its because I like sleep and a don't live in the dorms.
True, but that general sentiment is a truth that most people don't understand and it ends up hurting them. Delayed gratification
Reading this at 5:37am💀💀
Im 27 Not once in my entire school life had the gpa has any influence on my classes or my current job or life goals. I honestly never gave a shit about GPA
@@aabatteryalex I got turned down from the 11 internships i applied to because of my low gpa so it will probably hurt me when I apply for jobs soon
Bro, my middle school had a "bomb at [some time]" written on a bathroom stall. As much as I'd like to complain about some of the school's practices, the ENTIRE school was evacuated for several hours while the building was combed through. They didn't have us shelter in place. Public schools seem to be far more equipped in terms of protocol for shooters, bomb threats, and drug busts than a college campus with three, probably five times, the budget.
Your college knowingly endangered that entire building during the bomb scare, not to mention knowingly keeping you in a building with an attempted arsonist.
I think its because they know most of the problematic mfs dwell in middle/high school
Doesn't even matter if they knew. Keeping and even locking people in a building where a fire alarm goes off (meaning danger) is reckless, dumb and extremely dangerous. Fire alarm means EVACUATE the building.
I mean atp I get why so many students try to turn into arsonists in that dorm cause I would want to burn it down too
THE ASHEN DAWN SHALST CLEANSE THIS LAND
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Well, we know another arsonist...
@@Shadowrunner123 the sins brought upon the land by the covenant of earthly desires shall feel the holy flames and be quenched by them
The admins must know how many arsonists live there and just want to make sure everyone is on high alert at all times
We had swat raid a dorm and find a shit ton of drugs and guns after someone got shot and possibly bled out on my friends doorstep, they never cleaned up the blood.
got to keep the respect. Someone suffered. They need to be remembered and leave a mark.
Blood on your doorstep voids the security deposit
@@menjolno In a cemetery, not a door mat.
This is the sad truth of all emergency situations. The police enforce the law, they arrest potential offenders and restore calm. Emergency services techs stabilize wounded patients at the scene (defibrillate, provide cardiopulmonary resusitation, apply tourniquets, field dress wounds, etc) and bring them to the most suitable place for treatment (hospital, trauma center, emergency field triage unit). Funeral personnel transport the decedent's body and prepare it for subsequent cremation, burial, and any viewing or memorial services. In all cases, these people do not provide hazardous waste and cleaning services. There are specialized companies that are typically hired to help families and companies clean-up areas where bodily fluids were released and risk the transmission of blood borne pathogens to those who remain.
Universities (especially on the residential and student life side of things) typically do not have staff members who have received the necessary training to clean up biological hazmats. They usually outsource this to the specialized companies. EMTs and hospitals typically have trained staff members to effectively and safely clean up biological contamination as they need to reuse the beds, gurneys, ambulances, and other equipment. As for the police, I wouldn't suggest getting any open wounds too close to the upholstery in a police car (front or back seats).
for the one year i did college, whenever fire drills happened i would put earbuds in and earmuffs on, and go back to sleep
Literally playing with fire but I respect it
@@storytimewithjeff im kinda surprised you didn't talk about the shared bathrooms, my dorm had 8 toilets and 8 showers for 32 kids, and that shit was so disgusting that i would drive myself to the ymca to take a shower. i once had a mf take a bite of my bar of soap in the shared showers.
@@MattIsBored322 wowza, 8 toilets, you must have been living in luxury dorms! We had 4 toilets for ~30 rooms, each with 2-3 people (the rooms are designed for 2 people but they just "tripled" you if they ran out of space, hahaha no problem right?). So all in all it was a good 75 people for 4 toilets. The outcome? Actually not as bad as you think, because there was an emergent phenomenon where people would tend to pee in the toilet closest to the entrance to the bathroom. What would happen is this toilet would get so disgusting with dried piss on the seat, floor, and bowl, that everyone understood it was the piss toilet, and so they further concentrated their piss efforts there. This left the other 3 toilets actually rather clean, as they only got used for daily bowel movements and college life means you are spending a lot of time on campus using the public bathrooms anyway.
One time I saw a guy go into the piss toilet stall and sit down to take a shit though, I am pretty sure he also had schizophrenia so there was definitely a screw loose with that guy.
@@w.o.jackson8432 holy shit lmao
There was an epidemic of people pulling fire alarms on other people's floors when I was in residence...
4 times one Sunday night was brutal. Classes were hard the next day.
Whoever's floor it was, everyone got a $5 fine. Made zero sense, because it was always someone from another floor falsely pulling it.
If you didn't vacate the building, you could get in a lot of trouble. I forget if it was a fine or a strike against you that could get you evicted.
Your voice got 30 years older in the last 3 years bro turned into the Batman
All this shitfuckery has aged him 30 years obviously
Back when I was in college, at least every 3 weeks from about 12 am to 4 am, the fire alarm would go off. It was usually someone trying to microwave ramen or macaroni without water. Geniuses
First year I knew a guy who kept washing his clothes without detergent and complaining how they never got clean
@@storytimewithjeff it’s amazing how stupid some people can be
Honestly, if it was 1 person who made the mistake of not putting water in the ramen/macaroni cups, it would make sense.
I’ve made the mistake of somehow cooking those French bread pizza things while somehow forgetting to add the cheese on it multiple times. And those were on days where I wasn’t high or sleep deprived (atleast some of them probably were atleast)
@@storytimewithjeff this is next level stupid to me.
If they somehow forgot to add it one day and complained without realizing, understandable. But just not doing it at all? We’re they trying to save money or something?
@@ZealanTannerWhen mommy and daddy do all the things for their widdle baby, it's easy to be this ignorant.
One time, a student (who lived right across the hall from me) was arrested for making threats to other students over social media, to the point where some people thought it was an active-shooter situation. Meanwhile, I had been off-campus all day and had no clue what had happened. When the RA's called an "emergency floor meeting" at 10:00 pm, and I asked what had happened and why we were having this meeting... they refused to tell me.
one time a middle school I used to go to (not when this happened) got a shooting threat over instagram (it was a photo of a gun and the name of the school with a threat) they didn't even close school
@@user6122 my school receives a lot of threats, probably not serious threats so school isnt closed but students get to decide whether or not to go to school
I'm suddenly entirely grateful that I never was a dorm student; that sounds like hell.
Its shit. The football dudes in the room next to me set off the fire alarm 3 times in the first semester by microwaving cup-o noodles 3 times without water in the cup. A brick is an intellectual challenge for them.
@@almostdeadagain ngl sounds like a kicker
i'm going into a barracks instead of a dorm
@@kooolainebulger8117 Dear God, gl ngl
@@kooolainebulger8117 how did that go?
Last time the fire alarm went off in my dorm, I overheard someone saying it’s “just another drill” but I’m pretty sure they don’t call the fire trucks and police for drills.
I'm pretty sure the fire department needs to be there to turn off a fire alarm. Police shouldn't be there though if it's just a drill
they do
I am glad I'm a commuter student - my school is not in a nice area and the housing is old, so some dorms don't even have AC
Asbestos as well often times I have noticed as a fellow commuting student.
This video is the reason why I'd rather commute than live on campus.
Plus the fact that they only had triple rooms, as if it wasn't enough points of failure already
To give the fire alarm some credit, it knows the cafeteria is part of the same building, but the administration is the one that’s mentally lacking to say they aren’t the same building
The university where I live requires out of county freshman to live on campus. It’s like $1700 a month for a prison cell plus dining fees and they’ve been buying up the properties just off campus which used to have a few small grocery stores, cheap restaurants, dollar stores, thrift stores for clothes, barber shops and other student essentials and turning them into more even more expensive housing and warehouses for books and other proprietary stuff. It’s an absolute racket and terribly for both the town and the students.
When Jeff's video is 10+ mins, you know you in for a good video
10+ minutes of whining
Last year I lived in university housing, and the overall incompetence was absolutely insane.
One day there was a short earthquake, not intense enough to destroy stuff but strong enough to move things around. Most of us left the building on our own becaude noone in the staff bothered to activate the alarm. We waited 30 mins outside in the middle of winter until we just decided to go back inside, just to find the receptionists chilling in bicycle area, completely unbothered by the fact that some people may have been inside.
Another time a truck was set on fire on the sidewalk, luckily i lived on the other side but some people had windows open, not a nice week for them
We had a "serial shitter" in my dorm. I don't know how, I don't want to know how, I REALLY shouldn't have to wonder how, but somebody managed to fill an entire toilet (and I do mean entire, they packed so much shit in there that it was peaking out the top of the bowl even after being pressed down) and still have enough to coat the walls, floor, and ceiling on MULTIPLE OCCASIONS. They never caught the guy.
maybe the poop solidified so it peers over the seat
At Walmart, every now and then, someone gets in the first stall with, and I can only guess is, explosive diarrhea and paints the entire toilet seat, walls, floor, and door in shit. It's awful
By any chance, were you near farmland or a plumbing facility? Or really anywhere where human or animal waste would accumulate?
Wait, they knew there was a fire and potential arsonist on the loose in your building, and they LOCKED you IN!?
Where the heck did you go to school!? The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory!?
If the school built many of its dorms during the era of Brutalism as was suggested by the "gulag" freshman dorm story, the buildings themselves are designed to be fire and arson resistant and it often is safer to shelter in place as automated systems activate to isolate the area by triggering door releases, the closed doors will normally starve the fire of oxygen sources, protect other areas from smoke infiltration, and contain the fire to a limited area of the building. If the fire gets hot enough automated sprinklers may fire to suppress the fire. These buy extra time for firefighters to extinguish what remains without having to contend with a reverse flow of students and staff exiting the building. This is why administrators and fire officials are so adamant about not propping doors open even in spring and fall. A propped door in a fire escape can prevent all floors from exiting as the fire stairs fill with smoke and feed a fire oxygen effectively trapping all of the occupants. Shelter in place is used in a wide variety of settings and is near universally standard in health and elder care settings due to the vulnerability of residents.
Brutalist buildings especially libraries on university campuses were built with fire and asset protection in mind. The concrete is naturally fire resistant, the narrow and often inaccessible from ground level windows were designed in part with civil unrest in mind. A librarian friend of mine explained this fun fact about university architecture and library science with me.
I don’t know where YOU went to school? 🤔 But it kind of sounds like THEY had their shit together. Triangle shirt waist, good reference!!
Assuming there is a sprinkler system then shelter in place makes perfect sense.
@@deeznoots6241 Shelter in place can work even without a sprinkler system depending on the materials of construction and airflow considerations. If the building is primarily reinforced concrete for example, simply closing doorways to limit airflow and stopping the HVAC system may be enough to prevent spread of the fire. The fire may consume the available oxygen more quickly than fresh air can enter the area limiting the fire without water.
Waterless methods of snuffing fire are important in a lot of settings where water use would be extremely dangerous. Kitchen fires involving hot oil are greatly worsened by water which initially sinks in the hot oil due to density, but can then flash boil if the oil is many times hotter than 100°C. Now converting to steam at the bottom of the oil volume the bubbles of gaseous water spray the burning oil on surfaces around the fire like cabinets, countertops, and the person who threw water on the oil fire. Snuffing the fire by limiting oxygen availability with a large pot lid is super effective for these types of fires.
As electric cars have become more common other forms of extinguishing have become much more necessary due to the combustible metals in EV batteries. You may have heard fire depts complaining about vehicle fires that won't extinguish or reignite multiple times after dousing with water. For lithium fires, a "type D" fire extinguisher suitable for metal fires is best. It uses a dry powder with graphite, granulated salt (sodium chloride), and fine copper instead of water.
Getting kinda tired of getting notifications every week that there is another new reply on a year old post, so I'm just going to address it all here.
Never said anything about the shelter in place order. I understand that for certain situations shelter in place makes sense.
My issue was the fact that they locked them in, AND placed obstructions in front of that locked exit. In many places obstructing a method of egress in a fire is a crime.
And if the fire spread and they had to give out the order to evacuate rather than shelter, they would now be possibly condemning people to death as the locked doors at the very least would complicate or exacerbate evacuation times.
Just because there are sprinklers and methods of fire suppression doesn't mean you can lock people in a building. Those methods fail all the time. It's half the reason they are called fire suppression and not fire killer 9000 systems. Because many times thier only job is to suppress a raging fire long enough to facilitate a safer evacuation.
Something a locked door would actively prevent.
yeah pretty much. our fire alarms get set off at any hint of smoke, vape, or hairspray. and the shared bathrooms are horrid.
I only spent a few weeks living in a dorm during COVID and I quickly got out so I could commute. Because of social distancing mandates each inmate had a single, two-bed furnished bedroom to themselves. Unlike how dorms can be full of obnoxiously loud neighbors, this hall had the exact opposite problem that drove me borderline anxious: deafening silence. I'm pretty sure I was alone on that floor for the first 2 weeks of the semester because I could you not never caught sight of a living soul doing laundry, cooking in the lounge, studying in the conference rooms, or using the elevators (except the women's dorm). Sleeping was as unsettling as the Shining hotel (I didn't have a fan). It really felt like a solitary penitentiary, so I really spent most of the time studying in the library.
I hate that you described the dorm kids as "inmates", prisons would never stoop this low
bro had too much of a good thing
My dorm building's fire alarms were straight up broken. One night there was a small kitchen fire that set off the building's fire alarms. The bottom 7 floors worked as intended. But where I was up on floor 13, only the lights of the alarms went off. At the time, I was asleep in my room (it was a suite set-up) which didn't have any alarm lights in it. I woke up to my group text of folks also in the building super confused as to why people were evacuating.
The next day, they put signs up saying essentially that the fire alarms had 'technical issues' and that to make up for these problems, students would have to be 'extra diligent'.
Mind you, this was a massive 14-floor building attached to three other similarly sized dorms, with thousands and thousands of students staying there. The rooms were so high that none of the windows opened in case of jumpers.
If there had been a real fire in that building, it would be a BIG problem.
Man this sounds like story's my father tells me about. He lived in the soviet union.
Universities are the socialist politburos paradise. Welcome to reality welcome to the bloc; da comrade.
Dude I honestly have no Idea how you didn't have multiple RA's come up dead lmao to be able to drag someone out of their shower without getting thumbs in the eyes
Yeah that's fucking insane
If someone comes in my shower without my consent, they're not leaving intact.
The best RAs are the long time ones who realized that reporting everything just stresses them out more than anything. Had one that was a grad student and had been at it since sophomore year straight up tell us that if he doesn't see it, he won't report it because the paperwork is terrible. Even got mad with us when an unannounced drill occurred.
Sorry that you had so many issues with your dorm and fires. I also ended up having a hellish time with mine.
My dorm ended up having 44 fire alarms across 2 semesters this year, with 3 nights alone each having 2 in one night, and another having 3 alarms go off. The alarms were also hyper-sensitive, so febreze and even the steam from our showers was enough to set them off.
They didn’t even fix this issue until the parents started to complain to the Residence department, whereafter they retuned the alarms. Only took them 6 months to come to the conclusion that maybe it wasn’t just engineering undergrads being stupid, but an actual fault with the fire alarm system.
They definitely found the missing uranium fuel rods in Jeff's special hiding place
To be fair, it does make sense for the two fire alarms to be connected. The buildings aren't physically separated, so a fire in one could spread to the other easily, and with a taller dorm building if the lower floors were on fire the people upstairs would have an unfortunate situation.
That drawing and explanation of the dorm, dining hall disconnection really sounds like OSU's Scott House.
If this is what college is like, then we DO live in a dystopia.
that's the dorms lol
If you all believe that this is "gulag" like or dystopian, please understand that you are all the product of multiple generations of plenty and have no concept of what hard times are. You, your parents, and likely your grandparents almost assuredly never had to stand in a food line of any kind. For three generations, your families have likely lived as the most privileged people in the most prosperous and most stable period of human history. You have never feared being drafted into military service and had 12 years of free public education and supplemental school breakfast and lunches available to you even if you never utilized those programs. You have not feared for debilitating diseases like polio, yellow fever, cholera, measles, small pox, HIV, tuberculosis, pertussis, mumps, hepatitis A, B, and recently C, and for many of you likely HPV due to the modern vaccination regime.
These are unprecedented times, and we are the children of the long summer one might say. Appreciate what splendors you have been given and if you don't appreciate them, expand your horizons with travel to areas of the world where folks have the least. Globally, the most children born at any time are surviving and it is a testament to our achievements. Yet, daily babies and young people die prematurely due to famine, pestilence, and war. Until you've walked into a village in West Africa or Southeast Asia and seen mother unable to walk due to malaria infections or looked into the eyes of people who were grateful for the ability to attend a charity school for 6 years and with no further education available to them, you have no conception of what suffering is.
Be thankful for what you have, as your descendants if you are so lucky to have any may not enjoy the many splendors of which you currently whine
This is dorms. Basically a living example of inmates running the asylum and the asylum is a gulag
I went to a state college, the dorms were never this bad
i used to stay at a dorm too, it wasn't as catastrophic as yours lmao. it felt pleasant even, i felt bad for your intense bad luck
Its not his bad luck, but your good. Every single uni dorm I've stayed in was awful, mainly because of fire alarms and cell like rooms
Thank god you came back. you make my finals season just a bit easier to get through
Besides the miswired alarms, its weird that they treat the buildings as separate. My university has the dining hall and gym attached and their alarms go off together (but you can't access one through the other). I would think that makes more sense because if there really is a large fire, it can easily spread between the buildings
i was quite literally just binging your content and saw this notification come up that is INSANE
I was one of those people who was dragged out of the shower during an early morning fire drill. I had shorts and a t shirt and I asked the ra if I could at least get my jacket before stepping into the below freezing Weather but apparently that was against the rules
It actually does make sense for the fire alarms to be connected if the buildings are. The fire does not give a shit if the door between the two are locked.
I feel sorry for the BS people in college housing have to go through
This is honestly the hardest I've laughed at a youtube video since I tried staying up for a week
I’m starting college this semester and I am pretty excited, for everything except the dorms. Everyone tells that “oh it’ll be great” and I’m just thinking that living with a whole bunch of people my age will be hell on earth. Maybe I’ll be wrong (please god let me be wrong) but if I’m right, I’ll be the most active student in all my classes if only to avoid going into my dorm.
how is it
@@peterk.2108 Prolly ass. You should jsut commute. Its lonely asf but its alright.
Idk if I regret my decision to commute over dorms. But their so expensive that I would rather shoot myself
i love this guy's attitude
Honestly don't blame the technicians for having the minimal intelligence to understand two buildings are connected, blame the staff for trying to split atoms like idiots. If a fire starts in one it could spread to the other, so its a fire hazard to not allow movement between buildings for more exits.
No fire drills during finals. They do not make us more safe, they are just pure concentrated human incompetence.
Yeah, that reminds me of the dorm I lived in my freshman year of college. It was an absolute atrocity, and I'm glad to say that it's gone now.
Bro I was an RA and the massive 500 person dorm I was part of had 45 false fire alarms in ONE SEMESTER.
All activating because of either shower steam or people who couldn’t cook.
I am struggling to pay off my first years dues. Meanwhile my fasfa grants are gonna cover my next semesters completely. Campus living is fucking expensive, and I am glad to move out. The other students would always harass me for wanting to enter my dorm early at night. That was because I was at work.
Fire drill: Evacuate everyone outside in the middle of the night.
Actual fire: Well, you should all stay in your rooms I guess.
During winter break my dorm flooding and all of my stuff got waterlogged. That was fun
Well, thank you for giving me the absolute lowest expectations for college. I don't think any other person, youtuber or not could.
Judging by the way you described the dorms in the previous videos, it’s possible that students were lighting fires to warm themselves.
Attached buildings have to have attached fire alarms.
I remember living in a duplex with separate fire alarms systems that caught on fire once. Not knowing of the fire until the fire until I smelled smoke coming from next door.
I envy the fact that your school takes fire safety seriously.
I lived in this dorm my freshman year that was in the basement of the building. There was a stream that ran through the area that my dorm was in, and my room was the closest to the stream of any rooms in the building (was this related to the issue? I'll never know).
During my first semester, there was no issues really, but because this university is in southwest Ohio, we get a bunch of rain in the spring. So spring comes around, and my room doesn't flood, but became extremely humid, and water condensed *everywhere* and in *large quantities*. So one morning I wake up and there's like three quarters of a millimeter of water on *EVERYTHING*.
I ask my RA, who was totally unwilling to help anybody, if I can have a dehumidifier, and I explain the problem. He says he'll get back to me. He never does. I ask him two or three more times, eventually he tells me that I'm not allowed to have one. Okay. So I go to the RD, who was a TOTAL asshole, describe the problem, and he says "that's impossible for me to do."
At this point I've been living with the whole "I wake up and there's 3/4ths a millimeter of water on everything" thing for about 3 weeks now, and I was reaaaaally angry about it. So I go to the old underpaid townie ladies who work for the school and get treated like crap by the rest of these ungrateful 18 year olds, and they sort of know who I am because I was like the only student in the hall who would talk to them. I explain the situation to them and they're like, "that's ridiculous that you're going through that! Come with me sugar." I shit you not, they walk me to a supply closet and there is fifteen dehumidifiers just sitting on the ground. They tell me to take 2 because of the degree of the issue.
I thank them profusely, and I live with that for a while. Crisis averted, and all I had to do was just pour out water twice a day. No big deal right? WRONG!
I'm not sure if it was because of the increased electrical demand coming from my room because of the two dehumidifiers, or if it was some other thing, but about a month after I got the dehumidifiers, my room started losing power.
The first time it happened, my roommate and I thought it was a power outage and I didn't think much of it, but we heard the fucking Fortnite theme playing at max volume next door, and we were like, "wait, this is only our room!"
So I go down to the RA and I explain the sitation and he goes "okay well what do you want me to do about it?" Seething, I calmly told him that I'd like him to get in touch with whoever he needs to get in touch with to fix the situation. He dodges that responsibility, and gives me the number to the electric company the building uses.
I give them a call, they come by like 12 hours later, they tell me they don't know why or how but the circuit that leads to my room got turned off and needs to be reset and replaced. I'm like okay sure.
So they replace it and in my head I'm like "okay that was weird let's move on."
No. It happened again like two days later. I had to call the company again. Then again about a week later. Then again about a week after that. Then it happened again the *literal same day*. I was livid. I went down to the RD and demanded to be out of that room within the day or I was going to sue the university (I absolutely did not have the means to do it but I figured it was the only thing that would make this guy budge).
He moved me 5 seconds later. The sequel story to the next room is a story for another day.
P.S. I'm nearly 100% certain the conditions in that room made me sick 24/7 because when I moved in I got diarrhear that wouldn't quit for the whole semester... except, curiously, when I went home for Thanksgiving and Winter breaks. Upon return, it came back, and then disappeared entirely when I was moved to a new room.
College rocks dude, to think that in such a place, I almost fucking killed myself (some people will get this reference, shoutout to you if you do, isn't our alma mater wonderful?)
6:03 they may do those so they can inspect the rooms while everyone is mustered outside
That first story reminded me of something that happened at my college. Our anime club was hosting some sort of scavenger hunt around campus but didn't tell whoever you're supposed to for doing so. One part of the scavenger hunt was finding a box on one of the tables in an outdoor area, I assume for the next clue of the scavenger hunt or maybe the final prize or whatever else. Whatever the case, I think someone was just walking along and saw an unattended package left in a public area, so the fucking bomb squad got called in and they had to go in and defuse what I imagine was an anime figure or something.
some of the best roasts I heard in years
My student housing story:
Campus was so crowed, they converted all the "doubles" into "triples".
A bit tight, but manageable. Being freshmen, we were open to all kinds of mischief.
One guy spent the quarter hitting up all the frat houses, developed a drinking problem and dropped out.
Another was apparently "exploring his sexuality" and spending way too much time in the dorm showers.
Sexuality guy, and another fellow were bored one evening and decided to explore "what would happen if you threw burning bags of trash down the shoot from the 4th floor".
The predictable results became apparent at 2am with a fire that forced evacuation of the dorm.
(And in my version, it was 2am before the 8am Physic mid-term.)
Appears the only repercussion was to move the two trouble makers to other dorms, with rooms adjacent to the R.A., who would keep and eye on them.
Sex guy later dropped out, and entered the priesthood. (no, not making this up.)
Monthly fire drills are just an attempt to induce stress because it provides better schooling results.
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Goddamn, My school is just under 12k a year (4k for me with scholarship), around 16k with housing, and the campus and all the faculty(with a few exceptions) are nice and responsive, we always have security patrolling 24/7 and we never have to do any drill bs all we have is an inspection like once a semester to see if we have anything we're not supposed to have like a gas stove or candles, but they don't even care about the candles. WTF kinda school is that where you have to pay that much and everything is that shit?
Only Incident we've had for the 3 years I've been here is this semester a car with illegal fireworks caught fire and got the 2 cars next to it as well.
Now that I think about it, every "big school" I've toured is kinda shit compared to the less known ones I've visited in my opinion, in our dorms its 4 bedrooms connected to a main area so it's cheaper for everyone, this other school that I almost went too was the same more or less from what I could tell and it was about the same price for tuition and room and board. Expensive schools seem like a rip off.
Pretty much my experience as well. Lots of diamonds in the rough when it comes to college, and even in the bad spaces, most people still leave college with a positive opinion on it.
Same here
Thank you so much for these videos. Your voice helps me get through the late nights studying(Iam studying calculus right now)
I was stuck in a prison room esk box, my smoking increased like six fold and i was super depressed they must be pumping something through the vents
Dorm life was proof enough to me that 18 is too young a voting age
The problem isn’t the age, the thing is that most people shouldn’t vote or be encouraged to
5:38 Bro's having a pretty lit collage experience lol.
6:14 the most accurate depiction I have ever seen of an RA
To be fair a fire can happen at any time they have to practice like it's the real thing and considering how many arsonists your school seems to admit the fire drills are very important
I didn't realize you'd started making videos again, but I'm glad to see more stuff from you.
5:55 We are many
99.999999% sure they have to have the fire alarms for the dorm and the dining hall wired into the same system because it is technically one building, if one fire alarm goes off, they all should
Whenever I see the fire alarm switches I get this unexplainable urge to trigger it, like when your brain goes "hey what happens if I put my hand in the burner fire" so I can understabd why a few students lit trashcans on fire.
The front desk person is a straight menace
Im so glad you are back. Your content is the best
Ok but like
If the buildings are connected,
A fire in one constitutes a fire in the other, since fire, like. Spreads. And also considering that they're the same building.
So it makes sense that the alarms in that case would be wired into the same circuit. If your living room catches on fire, you'd want to know that from your bedroom, regardless of any weird "go out your window and come in through the front door" rules your overbearing roommate set up for whatever reason.
Everything else was agreeably headassery, but that last bit -- while annoying -- actually makes some sense.
The entirety of this experience reminds me of living in the barracks in the army. The fire alarms were also a monthly thing that went off whenever but it didn't matter because some jackasses would always set it off anyway usually by cooking ramen without water or some other cooking mistake. Because of the frequency of it happening, the majority of people didn't bother going outside to wait and just stayed in their rooms continuing to do whatever they were doing and just tolerated the earsplitting noise. Thankfully none of this ever happened while I was on CQ.
I want to go to that horrid place. Not because I'd like it, but because I want to become more resistant to psychic damage like this hellscape.
I honestly really enjoyed this video an proceeded to spen the next 48 hours binging all the other ones lol. Hope you continue to upload!
I found your channel a couple of months ago and the only reason I didn’t subscribe was because you weren’t uploading. Im glad to see that you’re back at it!
So wait, they knew there was some sort of fire in the building, so their reaction was to recall everyone to the building, then barricade and lock the doors?
I just remember that my freshman year we had a bunch of power outages. Another was that there was a smoke in the boiler room and we had to sleep somewhere else for the night. The dorms were COVID housing too, fun times.
I bet the fire alarms had to be connected by law since it was a shared structure. A fire wouldn't give a shit about the university's "well actually they're two buildings" bs.
I'm an RA. All I can say us yeah.
although, the biggest crime I've seen is how other guys my age can't use a bathroom or take care of themselves.
2:22 "Full course meal of 5.56" LMAOOOO
Glad to see you're back!
My dorm neighbor freshman year was slightly unhinged. We both loved hiking, but she thought that 6 AM on a Saturday was the best time for it, so she would bang on my door to wake me (and my roommate) up every Saturday. Finally our RA told her she had to stop making such a ruckus so early in the morning, so she stole my room key, made a copy of it at Lowe’s, and would instead shake me awake every weekend. Despite this insanity, we became very close friends, which ended up really screwing me up junior year when she passed away after being hit by a drunk driver. Turns out there’s no better way to tank your GPA than to slip into a deep depression
I spent one semester at my school living on campus. The only memorable points were when some guy shit ON the bathroom floor 3 separate times (as far as I know), and someone planning a party in one of the dorm rooms that immediately got busted up by the RA's
how bad are these people at controlling their bowle movements
@@peterk.2108 It was only one person, but I don't know
Nothing nearly that bad but back when I went to college, they had this stupid policy where all freshman were FORCED to live in dorms. NO exceptions. Even those who KNOW without a shadow of a doubt that it is a terrible policy because some people need peace and quite to sleep and NEED a healthy amount of sleep to be functional at all even on a basic monkey brain level....people like me.
So, picture this. You just finished studying all night for an exam that you already know is gonna be a nail biter in terms of whether or not you will even pass it because, you know, there's an entire sect of math that deals with something literally called _I_M_A_G_I_N_A_R_Y_ NUMBERS (like who the hell makes that up and it wasn't a practical joke gone wrong). You finally get to bed at like 3 in the morning. This was the set up for something that actually eventually led to getting a special case excuse for me to not be forced to live in the shit-holes known as dorms my freshman year (or any year after as well because fuck dorms) during my very first semester in college.
Now, our dorms were probably like most, are made of cider blocks with paint directly on said cinder blocks because fuck sound deadening materials, I guess. Also, again like probably most student housing, you'll get paired with some rando if you didn't sign up with a friend beforehand and request to be roomed together. The guy I got paired up with was a troglodyte and he thought it would be a great idea to wake me up AT 5:30 IN THE FUCKING MORNING to show me a cut on his big toe......like REALLY? I have a big exam in my 8 o'clock that you've seen me studying for over the past few weeks and you decide to wake me up, DRUNK, to show me you're big-fucking-toe?!?! (Said person would later on be expelled due to being found passed out in their room with a blood alcohol content JUST below the level that would literally kill you). Needless to say, the next day (after actually getting a B some-fucking-how on that exam while running on roughly 4-ish hours of sleep which to some is plenty of sleep to take an exam on...I am not one of those people...), I went to the person in charge of ALL the student housing and told them what happened, that I am a person that really does need the normal 9 hours of sleep to function as a basic human being, and that the dorms were not only NOT providing that but are also the SOLE reason I'm at risk of dropping out due to failing classes because I cant even keep my eyes open in them let alone even be able to wake up in time for them (lots more stories on why those are the case as well but that's for another time). They finally relented and let me live in an apartment complex off campus instead of being forced to live in the pig st-I mean dorms. Nice, one-bedroom apartment in a nice and quite area just off campus surrounded by actual families and not monkeys disguised as student so was peaceful all year long. GPA immediately shot up and graduated many years later while still living in that same apartment.
Moral of the story, school boards: DONT FORCE ALL FRESHMAN TO LIVE IN DORMS! SOME PEOPLE ACTUALLY NEED THIS NEW THING CALLED SLEEP TO DO BASIC THINGS LIKE LIVING!
this makes my dorm experience look like a paradise
I was a campus security guard once, we would do the fire alarm tests at like 3am
The dorm I've been living in for the past three years is actually kinda nice, but that's because it's built and maintained by a company separate from my college. It's more like the college rents it out and then sublets to students. There are businesses on the first floor of the dorm as well.
Last year, there was construction going on in one of the business units on the first floor. Someone forgot to disconnect the fire detectors in the construction space. This resulted in the fire alarms going off in the entire building multiple times a day for at least a week. People stopped caring after the second or third alarm on the first day it started happening.
My university does the same bs with fire drills. They always happened between 6 and 8 pm on the busiest day of midterms, usually Wednesday or Thursday. So everyone spilling out of these dorms are either pissed because they've been working on a timed midterm that they now cant finish because of this fire drill. The fire chief or whoever was the one always going on a power trip about "if you guys keep taking this long I'm gonna hold the fire drill at 4am. To which literally everyone told him to piss off and they just wont come out of the dorm. Overtime my friends and later roommate would sneak off to the dorm across the dining hall across the street and get some food until the drill was over. Until recently when we learned that no one comes by to actually check if the dorms are empty so we just put on noise cancelling headphones and stay inside.
3:33 your Abrams is missing the seventh road wheel. otherwise it looks pretty good.
Where you studying at? Crack den university? Lol
The return of the king
We didn't have official fire drills but each month someone would make popcorn which would trip the fire alarm.
I never went to uni and I often think if its worth going there to pick something up. Your videos definitly help dissuade me.
Since the dining hall and dorms are physically the same building fire code says that they're on the same fire alarm system
Another splendid video! ❤
Bro got a Call of Duty map for a house
this is not a normal college experience
The setup of the swat team and locked foor feels like a horrir movie setup
HE'S BACK WOOOOO
Your videos Ive been bingeing make me happy i didn’t go to college
If the buildings are conjoined, the fire will spread to both. The alarm has to be rigged to both