The alarms, oh god, the alarms

As part of their attempt to mismanage the college's money as efficiently as possible, the college went ahead and installed key-card locks on all of the dorms in the lower dorm complex (the upper area is mostly underclassmen and apparently we don't value their safety or something). They're keyed to our student ID cards. So far so good - I'm not sure about the cost-value benefit, but okay.

There is also an alarm system built in, because we no longer are allowed to prop the door open. Why? I don't know - apparently we can have the door unlocked during the day, but not open. This is very strictly enforced, because if the door is open for 30 seconds, an alarm goes off. A loud, high-pitched chirping that echoes very nicely in the open stairway in the hall. After maybe ten, twenty seconds of that, it changes into a louder, even more obnoxious, car-alarm-like siren.

That's kind of annoying. The really, unspeakably annoying part is that the door to my dorm does not work properly. Unless you pull it shut all the way, it won't shut all the way. They 'fixed' it this morning, which means it now sometimes will close all the way but sometimes it doesn't. So there's about a 50/50 chance that when someone has the audacity to, you know, enter or leave the building, we will all be serenaded by angry, amplified crickets after thirty seconds. Obviously, in a school where every single student is enrolled in an academically intense program, this is exactly what you want in the dorms where people might be getting crazy and studying.