I used to wake up at 4:30 a.m. every weekday because my roommate is on the crew team and for some reason, that is when they would have practice. I was always able to fall back to sleep though. I think I’ve even become immune to her alarm now because I don’t wake up for it anymore.

Today, however, a Tuesday when I don’t have any classes and cherish the sleep I can get, I was awoken at 6:55 a.m. I also know that most of the other girls on the fourth floor in the front of Stetson West don’t have classes either. So I was not woken up by some loud kids, a roommate’s alarm or any sound made from any student of Northeastern. I was up because of the yells of construction workers and the roaring of their machines. Not to mention the pounding of one machine that really makes me feel like there is an earthquake every 30 or so seconds or that the entire building will come crashing down.

This is not pleasant to wake up to, especially when you are not feeling well, as I have had a headache and stomachache since last night. I know that I am not the only one that feels this way. We only have a little over two weeks left to live in Stetson West, after which most are going home, and those athletes and others that are staying have to move into Stetson East. The school then has approximately four months until new students move back into West.

So why did the school feel the need to start the construction now? Will it be going on during finals? I imagine that it will be hard to study with all the noise and it will be hard to get a full nights sleep too. Plus, there is no more Outtakes, something I know most students were very upset to see gone and a great place to get food to save for those midnight studying snack sessions.

Most upperclassmen don’t eat in the cafs, and the people putting up with the construction right now will be those upperclassmen finally able to cook their own food next year and not eating in the dinning rooms.

It is a great idea to expand the dinning room in Stetson West, both dining rooms get really crowded during peak hours and it stinks trying to find seats. But is it really important to do it at the end of the school year instead of during the summer?

— Lauren Sass is a freshman music industry major.