I will so not miss being woken up by a fire alarm blaring for absolutely no reason
With graduation approaching, I’ve occasionally caught myself daydreaming about post-dorm life. It’ll be nice to have a real mattress and a little more space, you know? Oh, and you know what else will be pretty cool? Living in a building with fire alarms that aren’t constantly freaking out at 4 o’clock in the morning.
I know “what’s the deal with Columbia’s fire alarms” is our local version of “what’s the deal with airplane food,” but the darned things got me a record three times this week, and so they’ve been on my mind. So I did what anybody would do. I made a flowchart about what to do if you hear one.
Thomas Rhiel is a Spectrum opinion blogger and Spec’s former managing editor. He doesn’t understand why it’s still only like 40 degrees outside.
feelings exactly.
print this and put it in every dorm room.
IS AMAZING.
Tom FTW.
this is great!
this is accurate, but what if there are other things going on when the alarm goes off? we need a breakdown of those possibilities
A bigger threat to actually burning in a fire is losing your housing forever if you get caught in your room somehow. Just make sure your suite wasn’t the cause of the fire alarm.