Wake Up!!

For my birthday, I got an iHome clock radio with an iPod dock. Believe me, this thing is great. The only problem I have with it is that the buzzer isn't loud enough to wake me up. My old alarm clock had a buzzer that woke up my grandmother in the Philippines. This new one has one of those "gentle alarms" that progressively gets louder but not loud enough to jolt me awake the way I like. I shouldn't complain because it does wake me up eventually and I haven't slept in yet, but I'm worried about that one day when I have to be somewhere really early and I sleep through the alarm. I just have to keep telling myself, "it'll work, it'll work..."