so, last night I decided to go to sleep early...at 11.
at 3:30AM - SURPRISE. the fire alarms in my dorm started blaring. the 500+ residence, alongside myself, were pretty pissed. 
we still have no word on who caused it to go off, maybe it's better that way 
the situation took about 30 minutes, I came back to my room around 4 and I couldn't fall back to sleep. lol, eh oh well.
Do they still call them dorms where you go to school? Everywhere around here, my school included, now calls them residential suites.
Anyway, I have a similar story from last year. Back in February, I went out with friends on a cold snowy night (you know, to go study and drink apple juice at one of their apartments
). I came back to my room around 2am pretty under the influence of apple juice and went directly to bed. Meanwhile, it was still snowing pretty heavily (we about an inch per hour). Next thing I know, I wake up at 3:30 to the fire alarm going off (man, you'd be surprised how damn loud these new fire systems are!), assume it was a real fire because I saw what appeared to be smoke in the hall, and didn't even wait to put shoes on (forgot it was snowing!) and bolted for the steps. So here I am standing in the unplowed, snow-covered street (had about 3 inches on it FML) in bare feet, a t-shirt, and shorts. After University Police arrived and got everyone out, and SRFD arrived and cleared the building, two hours had passed.
As it turns out, someone IDIOT came back drunk and decided it would be a great idea to play with the fire extinguisher (the white smoke I saw in the hall), and when you remove the extinguisher from the box the fire alarm is automatically triggered. Worst dorm, erh residential suite experience ever.
