Friday, April 22, 2005
running alarm clocks- lauren
The article I am doing my journal entry on is called Snooze-Button Abusers Could be In for a Race Against Time With the ‘Clocky.’ It was written by Roger Vincent from the Los Angeles Times. It talks about a grad student named Gauri Nanda, who decided that he wanted to make an alarm clock that ran away after you hit the snooze button so that you could not keep hitting it over and over. College students, including himself, will sometimes go for hours repeatedly hitting the snooze button so they don’t have to get out of bed. So he ended up making an alarm clock that was soft and had wheels so that when you hit your snooze button, it would fall off the nightstand and roll to a random place so that when the alarm went off for the second time you would have to get up and find it. It was randomly programmed so that it would go to a different place every time. He is hoping that within a year they will be sold in the stores. I think this was a great idea.
I personally do not hit the snooze button on my alarm clock, not because I don’t want to but because I need to have the same routine in the morning everyday; I know tons of people who use the snooze button several times over though. It often makes them miss a class or late for an appointment. College students run on very little sleep so when morning comes no one ever wants to get out of bed, so when that snooze button is there it just keeps getting hit over and over. If the alarm clock runs away from the students then it will force them to get out of bed to find it because no one wants to listen to an obnoxious buzzing sound either. And once they are up out of bed then they are more likely to stay that way.