Upperclassmen “privileges”

As I write this article, I’m sitting in MSA 7, my home for my the year. I have been afforded numerous privileges that Milligan did not extend to me before I moved into MSA. I can now have boys come over every day. I have the option to not eat in the cafeteria. My car is typically within 20 steps of my front door. And on top of all that, Milligan has given me my own personal alarm clock that wakes me up at 7:30 each morning to the tune of a high screech and a convulsing “massage.”
 

All right, I wouldn’t really call it a massage. I was just trying to find a nice way to describe the shaking that overtakes my room as the first bit of light breaks through the sky and is constant for the duration of the day.
 

Granted, I understand that moving dirt from behind our lovely apartment is saving Milligan a good chunk of change. I applaud that. In fact, it would probably do the school some financial good to look at some of the other ways money is spent. But that's another topic.
 

So why am I writing this article if I think the school is doing the right thing? Just to voice my frustrations? Partly, especially since I know I’m not alone. I haven’t had a single conversation with someone living in MSA in which the effect of the construction has not been brought up. It goes a little deeper than that though.
 

We are told that living in the apartments is a privilege. In order to get in we have to have a fairly unblemished academic and behavioral record. So we work hard for three years, are accepted into a semi-real world living arrangement and then are handed a totally unexpected, annoying situation without so much as an apology?
 

A simple “sorry for disturbing the peace and quiet that normally comes with living in the apartments” would be nice. Maybe something to say “thanks for putting up with all of the ruckus that you weren't expecting.” I’d even take a deduction on the $1175 we spend to live here each month, seeing as it only costs renters $325 a month to live in these apartments. But I won’t go off on that tangent either.
 

I guess what I’m saying is I understand that the construction is necessary and appreciate that Milligan is trying to save students a few dollars in tuition increase. But at the very least, could the machines please turn off the beeping noise? I mean, honestly, who are they going to hit at 7:30 in the morning?