"We're not going to worry about it right now," he said. "We'll just roll with the punches."
In addition, he said a light fixture in the hallway outside his suite burst from the weight of water seeping through the floor above.
Quincy House Co-Master Marjorie North said students in those rooms would be housed in the Quincy Junior Common Room for the night.
The Cambridge Fire Department responded, bringing fire engines from three fire stations in addition to two ladder trucks.
All but one truck left the scene shortly after the fire was extinguished.
Ladder 1 remained behind to help University engineers with the clean-up.
Joseph P.X. Turian 01, who lives down the hall from the affected rooms, said firefighters awakened him and escorted him out of the building. He said he wasn't aware of a fire alarm going off in his room.
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