My Dorm Room Hates Me!

Update on last week's post about the TV...it still doesn't work. Our RA still hasn't gotten back to us. Mediacom still sucks in my opinion. And now, another fun problem. It seems to be well known across campus that the dorms are kept at a toasty 90 degrees. Most everyone I know constantly has a window open or else we would die of heat exhaustion. In addition to being uncontrollably hot, our heater has another annoying surprise for my roommate and I. Last night, we both had trouble sleeping due to a lovely high pitched squealing noise. Too drowsy to actually figure out what it was, I attributed it to some strange musical instrument being played by my ever musical neighbors. After I actually gained consciousness this morning, I discovered the constant high pitched noise was coming from our heater. Imagine a tea kettle constantly screeching and that is precisely the infuriating sound currently slamming into my skull. Occasionally, the noise will cease, and we will be rewarded with a few minutes of blissful silence, but then inevitably the ear-piercing screech will come back to slowly drive us insane. Several times today we have tried to talk to our RA about it, but of course she is never in her room. If this noise doesn't stop, I am going to never get any sleep and go on an insomniac rampage with a sledgehammer against this stupid heater!