So my dorm just had a fire alarm go off so all 19 floors had to evacuate using the stairs obviously. I went outside with my firend and a senior told me that merz always has fire alarms go off because of their sensitivity and the ability of freshman to burn all their food and they will go off a minimum of 20 times this year mostly during the early hours of the morning. So we all leave and go downstairs to wait for the all clear. Once it's given we head into the building and climb the stairs to our room. I change into a t-shirt flop onto my bed and begin to write this post and what do I hear next? You guessed it the fire alarm. The whole building (who had all just managed to get in) must evacuate yet again. So us girls (being the smart ones we are) walk to the back of the building to get in first. Now whenever you enter Merz hall you must scan your i.d. to get through the first set of doors then an RA has to check your idea against a book of all the people who live in the dorm then you have to scan your i.d to get through the second set of doors. That being said we knew it would be a long wait. What we didn't know was that they had anounced that only the male floors were being admitted (wtf?) and didn't realize it until we were given odd looks and surrounded by boys. I must say though it was refreshing to actually know boys exsist at my school since they are such a small minority. So basically this is going to happen a lot but will actually be at three in the morning instead of three in the afternoon.
Oh the joy of living in Merz hall.
Oh and on a topic completely unrelated they are sending New Orleans Loyola students here for the semester (well some of them) so maybe Erin will be my new classmate!!!
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boys are the minority? All my classes (with the exception of History) has an overwellming number of girls in it. Most of my classes have from 25-40 people and the number of boys in each one is from 5-12. Its crazy!
No fire alarms here yet.
Yeah, we already had two go off. One at four in the morning. They made us go into the Dining Hall and we slept in purple sleeping bags while the professors searched for that dastardly Sirius Black. Well no, but a firetruck came. It was red and shiny!
It's close to 50-50 for boys and girls at gonzaga. No fire alarms, but Mullaney and the rest of the soccer team are going to concordia to play Loyola Chicago. Just in case any of you were wondering.
Some crazed sophomores cut too much wood and the dust set off the alarm...we got lectured on proper responce to smoke detectors after everyone walk TO the room with the alarm to find out what was up instead of out of the dorm. Oh, and we have door alarms go off about every morning as some sleepy idiot goes out a door that's been rigged for emergency exit only. Either that, or they're smuggling out girls...funny story there from a guy down the hall, but that's gonna be the content of another post sometime.
-JB
I'm one of three girls in the mechanical engineering program my year at marquette...
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