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devyn said:
I say to my alarm clock (which is my phone) "just 5 more minutes please" all the fecking time.... :laugh:
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I have actually downloaded the extreme alarm clock app for my phone. I set it so that I have to solve math problems to either snooze it or turn it off. I am not very happy when it is 6:30AM and my phone is making this loud fecking noise and asking me what 134-68 is..... Surprisingly, it has only helped a little bit, apparently I am too good at math and can get the thing snoozed rather quickly and get right back to sleep... I need some type of alarm clock that runs away from me so that I am forced out of bed. :laugh:
 
DVMDream said:
I have actually downloaded the extreme alarm clock app for my phone. I set it so that I have to solve math problems to either snooze it or turn it off. I am not very happy when it is 6:30AM and my phone is making this loud fecking noise and asking me what 134-68 is..... Surprisingly, it has only helped a little bit, apparently I am too good at math and can get the thing snoozed rather quickly and get right back to sleep... I need some type of alarm clock that runs away from me so that I am forced out of bed. :laugh:
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Omg, I.....have never heard of this! I think I need it!

And fyi, they make alarm clocks that "hide"during the night!
 
There are also alarm clocks that shake your bed. Think they're primarily intended for deaf people, but I kinda want one.

I also have lights on timers.
 
Abney said:
Omg, I.....have never heard of this! I think I need it!

And fyi, they make alarm clocks that "hide"during the night!
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I think I need this. I am horrible at waking up.

cowgirla said:
I've seen the ones that run around.... my dog would take care of that toy in .2 seconds!
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My dog would have probably been afraid of it... until it stopped moving.
 
I set 3 alarm clocks on my phone.... 1. for an hour before I need to get up 2. for 10 minutes prior to when I need to get up... 3. for when I have to get up..... it is the only way...... I used to do the snooze thing in college and I would lose track of time and be late or not make it to class - now I just set my 3 alarms and I am golden..... probably horrible for my quality of sleep.... but I love waking up and knowing I can sleep for another hour.....


and yeah my dogs continue to sleep while I get ready and I have to literally drag them out of bed in the morning :laugh:
 
devyn said:
I set 3 alarm clocks on my phone.... 1. for an hour before I need to get up 2. for 10 minutes prior to when I need to get up... 3. for when I have to get up..... it is the only way...... I used to do the snooze thing in college and I would lose track of time and be late or not make it to class - now I just set my 3 alarms and I am golden..... probably horrible for my quality of sleep.... but I love waking up and knowing I can sleep for another hour.....


and yeah my dogs continue to sleep while I get ready and I have to literally drag them out of bed in the morning :laugh:
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I try something similar... I need to be up no later than 7 (7 is the rush around to get ready really fast time).

I have it set for 5:45 to start, then every 15-20 minutes up until 7, usually it works, sometimes (especially last week) it does not.
 
Trying to book my flight home... Has anyone ever travelled on Air France and gone through Paris? This seems to be the cheapest way, but I am a little worried about travelling through another country on the way home and on the way back.
 
I don't think it'd be a problem as long as there's enough lay over time. If its cheaper, take it!
 
DVMDream said:
Trying to book my flight home... Has anyone ever travelled on Air France and gone through Paris? This seems to be the cheapest way, but I am a little worried about travelling through another country on the way home and on the way back.
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I've done transits through other EU countries on the way to others (through Belgium to Germany) and never had any problem. I'm assuming the UK is in whatever that zone is called where you wouldn't have to do passport control more than once?



And, this alarm clock always makes me laugh: http://roundedoff.com/2012/01/06/ro...clock-wakes-you-up-in-morning-no-matter-what/
(Watch the video!)
 
They have a few kinds of alarm clocks that can piss you off, I mean, wake you up. One is a helicopter that launches off its pad and flies around until you put it back. Another is a set of three holes and pegs (round, square, triangle) and the pegs pop out when your alarm goes off. You have to put them back in to make it stop. There is also a little rolly robot one that hides in the darkest part of your room (usually goes under your bed) when it goes off and you have to find it and put I back on its stand to make it stop. :annoyed:
 
Then again, according to a recent life hacker post, the best alarm is a single alarm with no snooze.

You have to train yourself to wake up with the alarm. As long as you're fighting it, it will be a losing battle.

A single alarm forces you to wake up or be late, no games with the snooze button.
 
johnnydrama said:
Then again, according to a recent life hacker post, the best alarm is a single alarm with no snooze.

You have to train yourself to wake up with the alarm. As long as you're fighting it, it will be a losing battle.

A single alarm forces you to wake up or be late, no games with the snooze button.
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That wouldn't work for me. I already just shut it off without snooze. Then proceed to fall back asleep....
 
Abney said:
That wouldn't work for me. I already just shut it off without snooze. Then proceed to fall back asleep....
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Well I mean I think the idea is that if you do that every day, you'll be late every day, and eventually get fired/fail stuff/miss important things, and by virtue of that would hopefully extinguish that learned behavior and establish a new one of getting up the first time your alarm goes off.
 
nyanko said:
Well I mean I think the idea is that if you do that every day, you'll be late every day, and eventually get fired/fail stuff/miss important things, and by virtue of that would hopefully extinguish that learned behavior and establish a new one of getting up the first time your alarm goes off.
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Well, you'd think I'd have learned that lesson already, considering I've lived this way for 27 years :laugh: I'm seriously running late 90% or so of the time. I've just learned how to make up the time instead lol
 
nyanko said:
Well I mean I think the idea is that if you do that every day, you'll be late every day, and eventually get fired/fail stuff/miss important things, and by virtue of that would hopefully extinguish that learned behavior and establish a new one of getting up the first time your alarm goes off.
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I don't know... My first job out of school, my boss started making me pay for his breakfast every day I was late. I was still late every single day. Granted I had to be there at 5am and was working like 12-16 hours every day, but still, I KNEW I couldn't afford to stay in bed but would show up 1-3 minutes late every day (I also broke a lot of speeding laws).

Eventually I couldn't afford it anymore(it was my first year out of school) and I stopped coming in at 5am altogether. So... sometimes, no matter the negative consequences it may nit change
 
I'm chronically late to things but it isn't because of waking up late or my alarm. This isn't really about being 1-3 minutes late, it's like, shutting off your alarm and being hella late/missing things. Stuff that will actually get you fired.

Anyway I said that's the "idea" of the theory. We all know that it's not always how things work in practice. You call me argumentative, jeez.
 
I'm always late. I set one alarm and then lay around in bed a bit... I just always end up being a bit late. If it's not my timing at home (actually doing hair, having to pack up stuff from the night before, whatever) then it's getting stuck behind the short bus on the way to class. Or the one main stop sign I go through being backed up.

Some of the times hat I have all-out missed class, I must have turned off my alarm and gone back to sleep with absolutely no recollection of doing so - like I never actually woke up. That sucks. Just waiting to do that on exam day.
 
twelvetigers said:
I'm always late. I set one alarm and then lay around in bed a bit... I just always end up being a bit late. If it's not my timing at home (actually doing hair, having to pack up stuff from the night before, whatever) then it's getting stuck behind the short bus on the way to class. Or the one main stop sign I go through being backed up.

Some of the times hat I have all-out missed class, I must have turned off my alarm and gone back to sleep with absolutely no recollection of doing so - like I never actually woke up. That sucks. Just waiting to do that on exam day.
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From my experience, a lot of vettie types are late often lol.

And I doubt you'll do it on an exam day. Nerves and whatnot 🙂
 
Sent to me by a colleague to 'brighten my day'. Hopefully it will do the same for some of you. 🙂 My apologies for the 'ear worm'...

[YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4oiLfTnrC40[/YOUTUBE]


Oh good grief! I've tried attaching this six different ways and it just won't take. Hopefully it's just the computer I'm using. But, if not, here's the link.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4oiLfTnrC40
 
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Abney said:
From my experience, a lot of vettie types are late often lol.

And I doubt you'll do it on an exam day. Nerves and whatnot 🙂
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see one would hope that you wouldnt do it on an exam day, nerves and all, but i have. radiology II final last spring. 1 hour late (thankfully it was an easy 2 hour exam, but still) 😱 now i live with a classmate who wouldnt let that happen
 
jmo1012 said:
see one would hope that you wouldnt do it on an exam day, nerves and all, but i have. radiology II final last spring. 1 hour late (thankfully it was an easy 2 hour exam, but still) 😱 now i live with a classmate who wouldnt let that happen
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Lol oh no! I'm glad you still got to take it at least!
 
DVMDream said:
Trying to book my flight home... Has anyone ever travelled on Air France and gone through Paris? This seems to be the cheapest way, but I am a little worried about travelling through another country on the way home and on the way back.
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Yep, I have. Just make sure you have enough time between flights. If I remember correctly, the Paris airport is huge and parts of it are separated and you have to take like 10 minute bus rides to get around.
 
Abney said:
Lol oh no! I'm glad you still got to take it at least!
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yes that was nothing short of a miracle as that exam was the 1 and only grade for that class! the stupid part was i wasn't up late studying. i got a solid 8 hours of sleep, i wasn't stressed, it wasn't that difficult, etc. i just decided not to wake up!
 
Bought Staedtler pens after killing my blue Sharpie pen.
My embryology notes are now beautiful with pink and blue for all the sexual differentiation crap. I might not be learning much but at least it looks pretty :laugh:
 
Abney said:
Now you're just somebody that I used to know!!!!!!!!!
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👍

I set at least 2 alarms, sometimes 3(all on my phone). Each one has a different ringtone. If I don't use different ringtones then my brain gets too used to the sound and I end up turning them off without actually waking up and then I'm in trouble. :laugh: I don't use a traditional alarm clock anymore. Back in HighSchool, my brain got so used to the noise of the beeping, it would actually incorporate it into my dreams and it could go off for 20 minutes before I would wake up. (Or I would shut it off and roll back over without waking up).

1st alarm: brings me out of complete unconsciousness and I roll back over
2nd alarm: 10-30 minutes from 1st, I'm more awake for this one, sometimes I get up
3rd alarm: 10 minutes from 2nd, this is when I absolutely HAVE to get up. Usually, 10 minutes before I have to leave for work. :laugh:
 
Sign out in med school and residency cured me of most of my tardiness.

Nothing is a better incentive than knowing that you're keeping one of your peers in the hospital every minute you're late.
 
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I only have one alarm on my phone every day. I ice-skated for 11 years starting when I was 5. I had to be on the ice at 5:30 every morning when I was in elementary school, and then various ungodly times throughout my teenage years. My Mom always woke me up then, and she would never take no for an answer. Now once I am woken up once, I can't go back to sleep.

My method of waking up now: 1. Alarm goes off. 2. I utter one very long, satisfying expletive. 3. I turn it off and get out of bed.
 
tropictuco said:
I only have one alarm on my phone every day. I ice-skated for 11 years starting when I was 5. I had to be on the ice at 5:30 every morning when I was in elementary school, and then various ungodly times throughout my teenage years. My Mom always woke me up then, and she would never take no for an answer. Now once I am woken up once, I can't go back to sleep.

My method of waking up now: 1. Alarm goes off. 2. I utter one very long, satisfying expletive. 3. I turn it off and get out of bed.
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haha, yeah, ice times for us were always early too, or we'd have to leave for tournaments that were hours away before the sun came up.

I guess those of us who grew up at a rink have this in common - I'm the same way about getting up.

I play hockey though, my little sister is the figure skater. 😉
 
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