In my first semester at LSU, I was living in the Tiger Stadium North dorms on the fifth floor. At the time there was no air conditioning. Needless to say, it got pretty hot. My room mate and I decided we would haul a window air conditioning unit up to our room under cover of darkness. Our intention was to use it only at night, as the water it leaked would draw attention from students and others walking below to class. We found out why air conditioning units were prohibited that first night when we cranked that baby up.  The draw of electricity was too much for the circuits to handle, and when the AC was on, all of the lights on the fifth floor became very dim.

 

One night a huge jock knocked on our door and asked if our lights were dim. We cracked the door slightly, so as not to let him feel any of the cool air and just agreed with him and shooed him away. This was TOP SECRET and we did not want to be evicted. The following night, we apparently blew the circuits and all of the electricity in our wing went out. We scrambled to haul that massive air conditioning unit to our car before we were found out. Maybe we should have tried a smaller unit!

–Stephen R. Davis