Last night while I was in the library doing group work, a pipe burst on the second floor of my dorm building. The fire alarms went off, and from the library, we heard sirens coming onto campus. Wideline came to the library and told us that we weren’t allowed in the dorms; the entire first and second floors were soaked. I lucked out on that one; I live on the third, which sustained no damage. When we finally went back over to the dorm, it was around 10:45.  The power in the building was shut down, so there was a big black spot where our building should have been. The RA’s and RD and Director of Res Life had ordered pizza for us unfortunate Old Lynn-ers. Then they gathered us all in a group to let us know we’d be able to get a few things quickly, and they were putting all of us into the Holiday Inn for the night. We didn’t know when we would be able to get back into our rooms. I was worried because I have to work today, and I needed to be able to get work clothes and bike clothes. But, from what I heard this morning, the dorm was opened back up and we’re free to live in our rooms again!

 But what an unfortunate week for this to happen! It’s almost finals, everyone has a million projects and papers due. I had just caught up on sleep a few days before; now I’m behind again. I got it lucky, though, I have to say. None of my stuff was ruined. I hope there wasn’t too much damage for people on the other floors; I imagine it wouldn’t be fun to have everything in your room soaking wet.