Oh no! A mouse! So, you walked into your room, unpacked your backpack, settled down in your bed getting ready to fall asleep, and then, THE MOUSE.
So small, almost impossible to distinguish from the carpet of your dorm room, except for the fact that it just sprinted from under your bed to behind your fridge. What do you do?
If you live in an on-campus dorm or apartment, call your facilities or maintenance office. Depending on the time you call, they should be fairly quick in setting traps to catch the mouse, or mice, in your room. If you think the mouse is gone for now because you either scared it away or it got bored, take any food you had on the floor and move it somewhere higher up. If there are any mouse sized chewed holes in the packaging, throw it away. If not, it should be good for you to eat; just make sure to double check.
Now that your food is safely put away and you’ve taken out your garbage, the mouse will most likely lose interest in your room. If there isn’t any food for it to munch on, it’ll go find another room to terrorize. It’s especially important to regularly take out your trash and make sure you don’t have any food on your floor now that it’s getting colder out. The mouse is going to want to stay inside your room where it’s nice and warm, as opposed to outside where it’s much chillier than it was a few weeks ago, and hopefully, if your room is clean, the mouse will stay out of it.