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I would accept a placard explaining that microwave popcorn does in fact require monitoring. The amount of times you get woken up at 3am by a fire alarm cuz some fuckwit set it for 5 minutes and walked away.. I get the ban.
Surely everyone knows the proper way to microwave popcorn, right? Set to 2 min, at around 1:30 listen for the pops, and if there aren't any for 3 sec, stop the microwave (don't force open, hit "cancel" or whatever). For my microwave, it's usually around 1:45-1:50, but each bag is different.
Boom, you should have <10 unpopped kernels (probably <5) and no burnt popcorn. Oh, and if you forget to turn it off, no fire risk either, but it might have a little bit of a "roasted" flavor with a couple of the popped kernels burning, but it should be mostly fine.
Or just set it to 1:45 or 1:50 and accept that it's non-optimal. But you'll want to get the popcorn out of the bag quickly, so I don't see the point.
They probably know.
However, college students (at least in the US) usually don’t know how to handle being intoxicated. This being the first time they are allowed and all.
That’s why the dorm popcorn alarm (aka fire alarm) goes off in the middle of the night, not early evening when people would be watching movies and such.
And that's why habits are so important. If you just set it to 5 min and turn it off at the right time when sober, you're going to screw it up when drunk. If you always set it to 2 min (or whatever is good for your microwave), you'll likely do the same when drunk.