Incidentally, some good news today - I had sent in a maintenance request this morning because our room has consistently been colder than the hallway - which I figure is odd because when I complained to the neighbors who control our thermostat yesterday, their room was sweltering. And yay! A repair guy came today around 2 - absolutely amazing that they responded this quickly, though perhaps it has something to do with the possibility that the temperature may threaten our health. So apparently the case is that our heaters are so clogged from dust and not being cleaned in years that the dust keeps most of the heat in the heaters. Because of that, the heater doesn't even work unless the thermostat is turned up to 3 or 3.5 (as opposed to the usual 2 that my neighbors have it on), so he went over to speak with the neighbors about it and yay! Let there be heat!
Unfortunately, the maintenance request about my curtains haven't been answered - it'd be nice to have privacy once in a while...