I’ve been wasting a lot of energy this winter. I can’t sleep in a warm room; I need some sort of ventilation or air.  Not to say that I don’t waste energy in the summer because the air conditioner is constantly turned on.  Back home I would keep my window open in the winter and I would turn the heater on. My room was the coldest room in the house.  Here I have to deal with central heating and having a roommate, who happens to be always cold. There is no escaping the central heating in the dorm. We have no control over it! It doesn’t turn off! In order to deal with my extremely warm dorm room this winter I had to buy a fan, which is on the whole night, and whenever I’m in my room. How stupid is that? I’ve never experienced a winter this cold back home, and I can say that I’ve never used a fan in the winter. Not only is energy being wasted for heating, but also energy is being wasted on cooling at the same time!

The only solution I can think of is having the fan on, unless by some miracle the dorm would let me control the temperature. Opening the window is not an option because of my roommate, and the only reason she is okay with that fan is because it is directed strait at me.