Let me tell you a funny story that happened last weekend when I was dropping my daughter off at college.  It was Saturday night after the holiday weekend so most of the students were not returning until the next day so the place was pretty much deserted.  Anyway, we get to her door and she fishes around her backpack for her dorm room key, finds it, then proceeds to try to open up her door.  Well, the door would not open, puzzled, tried again, then noticed that the key was bent in half.  Ha!  How did that happen?  Anyway, she searched out her RA to see if they had an extra key to her room, they did not since it was a holiday weekend.  The RA did have a master key and was able to let her in.  To make a long story shorter, I was able to bend back the key by placing it on the floor and slowing applying pressure down on the bent key with the bottom of my shoe until it was able to fit in the key hole and unlock the door.  Ah what fun, college daze...