ATHENS, GA — A 21-year-old University of Georgia student who fell from the eighth floor of an apartment building over the weekend is now awake and talking.

Kristin Sargent is recovering in the intensive care unit after falling from an eighth-floor apartment at the Rambler apartments on West Broad Street in Athens.

Police say Sargent was dancing on a couch when she fell out of a window and landed on the pool deck.