CLUBS/GROUPS 
at about 2:10 am the fire alarm went off here in my dorm building.
Those things are so piercingly loud... creepy automated man in the speakers telling us that there has been a fire and we need to evacuate the building. It was a funny sight: a herd of mumbling, sleepy, confused, half naked college kids waddling down the hall towards the stairs in jackets and blankets and hopefully shoes. I'm on the fifth floor so that was quite fun... It was freezing and misting out and I was shivering like mad. Thus, madness ensued. Then they let us go into the student union building and chill after the firetrucks came and we were all blinded by the lights after already being deafened by the fire alarm. No one was sure of what was going on yet so we just sat around conjecturing and i bit my fingernails off fretting the loss of my all my pictures and data if the sprinklers were to go off and ruin my electronics. Half an hour later they announced that it would be a couple hours or so before we can go back in because they have to empty the water from the building. E. Gad. All seemed hopeless until a random group of people spontaneously broke out in song. This song happened to be Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen. It was extremely amusing and I would have given them a giant cookie if I had one. After that, time passed slowed, and at 4:30 am the powers that be came and told us we could go back in our building now.
Turns out the fire was on the sixth floor and was (from what I've heard) caused by someone smoking in the lounge, setting off the fire alarm and then dropping their cigarette and running, creating an actual fire in the process. The sprinklers were set off in all of the lounge areas on every floor. This is also by our elevators, which, subsequently, are now out of service for who knows how long. Luckily the sprinklers did not go off in most people's room, including mine. However, next time I am going to grab my external hard drive and run for my life. ಠ_ಠ
Also, school is going well, I dyed my hair black, and I've been seriously deprived of taking photos lately, which results in some rather odd and twitchy withdrawal symptoms.
