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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]ROTC Students have to be up early on weekends.  So do students with jobs or religious services.  You just have to have your clothes and shower stuff ready and quickly go.

When I went to school, I did 100% of my studying at the library or study lounges.  That solved a lot of problems.  If you are tired enough, sleep comes.[/quote]

OP here. DC spends from 7am-7pm outside the room. It’s the nights that are their issue.[/quote]

Chiming in really late to this thread.  My DC went to an Ivy (as a legacy - important later on).  Freshman year, there was very weird weather plus the dorm was really, really old and about to be renovated.  In the first six weeks DC was at school, we heard that the dorm room seemed really musty and moldy and they submitted a bunch of requests and building services would come and wipe bleach on the inside of the ceiling.  We finally went up for parents' weekend and it was *nuts.*  Building services had installed a commercial size trash can in the (very small) dorm room with a room dehumidifier pumping very loudly, night and day, but the ambient moisture level was off the charts and it was 100% clear that there was mold everywhere.  (At that point, both DC and roommate had been sick-ish for weeks.)  It was completely obvious that there was an active leak behind the walls or ceiling, but the building guys weren't going to do anything about it in response to student inquiries.  I spent 20 minutes in the room and felt sick.

I sent an email as soon as we got home to the office that handles parents and alumni.  It was polite, but pointed out in detail how the entire situation was untenable.

A day later, the building guys came, opened up the ceiling, discovered (surprise!) that there had been a slow leaking pipe for weeks spreading mold in the dorm, and they closed down a wing of the dorm and moved kids into a hotel for a couple of weeks to actually fix the problem.  It was around the same time that UMd had similar problems and a girl died.  I found it unconscionable that it took my complaint to move the needle, but it obviously did.

I would strongly urge that you, parent, reach out to the parent relations/alumni relations office, preferably in writing.  That will get much more action than you kid could do by themselves, in my experience.[/quote]

OP here. I wish it was an issue with the physical plant of the dorm building rather than with the students themselves. [/quote]

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