diff --git a/penn/__init__.py b/penn/__init__.py
index e4ecf3a..2ecb707 100644
--- a/penn/__init__.py
+++ b/penn/__init__.py
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-__version__ = '1.8.3'
+__version__ = '1.8.5'
 
 from .registrar import Registrar
 from .directory import Directory
diff --git a/penn/fitness.py b/penn/fitness.py
index 3fc1154..b4106b3 100644
--- a/penn/fitness.py
+++ b/penn/fitness.py
@@ -49,7 +49,9 @@ def get_schedule(self):
     def get_usage(self):
         """Get fitness locations and their current usage."""
 
-        resp = requests.get(FITNESS_URL, timeout=30)
+        resp = requests.get(FITNESS_URL, headers={
+            "User-Agent": "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/73.0.3683.103 Safari/537.36"
+        }, timeout=30)
         resp.raise_for_status()
 
         soup = BeautifulSoup(resp.text, "html5lib")
diff --git a/penn/studyspaces.py b/penn/studyspaces.py
index 9daa250..ac907dd 100644
--- a/penn/studyspaces.py
+++ b/penn/studyspaces.py
@@ -239,16 +239,18 @@ def cancel_room(self, booking_id):
         resp = self._request("POST", "/1.1/space/cancel/{}".format(booking_id))
         return resp.json()
 
-    def get_reservations(self, email, date):
+    def get_reservations(self, email, date, timeout=None):
         """Gets reservations for a given email.
 
         :param email: the email of the user who's reservations are to be fetched
         :type email: str
         """
         try:
-            resp = self._request("GET", "/1.1/space/bookings?email={}&date={}&limit=100".format(email, date))
-        except resp.exceptions.HTTPError as error:
+            resp = self._request("GET", "/1.1/space/bookings?email={}&date={}&limit=100".format(email, date), timeout=timeout)
+        except requests.exceptions.HTTPError as error:
             raise APIError("Server Error: {}".format(error))
+        except requests.exceptions.ConnectTimeout:
+            raise APIError("Timeout Error")
         return resp.json()
 
     def get_reservations_for_booking_ids(self, booking_ids):
diff --git a/penn/wharton.py b/penn/wharton.py
index 6f6f23d..6b2eb8c 100644
--- a/penn/wharton.py
+++ b/penn/wharton.py
@@ -18,15 +18,17 @@ class Wharton(object):
       >>> s = Wharton()
     """
 
-    def get_reservations(self, sessionid):
+    def get_reservations(self, sessionid, timeout=None):
         """Returns a list of location IDs and names."""
         url = "{}{}".format(BASE_URL, "/reservations/")
         cookies = dict(sessionid=sessionid)
 
         try:
-            resp = requests.get(url, cookies=cookies)
-        except resp.exceptions.HTTPError as error:
+            resp = requests.get(url, timeout=timeout, cookies=cookies)
+        except requests.exceptions.HTTPError as error:
             raise APIError("Server Error: {}".format(error))
+        except requests.exceptions.ConnectTimeout:
+            raise APIError("Timeout Error")
 
         html = resp.content.decode("utf8")
 
@@ -54,6 +56,10 @@ def book_reservation(self, sessionid, roomid, start, end):
         format = "%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S-{}".format(self.get_dst_gmt_timezone())
         booking_url = "{}/reserve/{}/{}/?d={}".format(BASE_URL, roomid, start.strftime(format), duration)
         resp = requests.get(booking_url, cookies={"sessionid": sessionid})
+
+        if resp.status_code == 403:
+            return {"success": False, "error": "Your account does not have permission to book Wharton GSRs!"}
+
         resp.raise_for_status()
 
         csrfheader = re.search(r"csrftoken=(.*?);", resp.headers["Set-Cookie"]).group(1)
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 3a6e6f0..f27a4f7 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
     url='https://github.com/pennlabs/penn-sdk-python',
     author='Penn Labs',
     author_email='admin@pennlabs.org',
-    version='1.8.3',
+    version='1.8.5',
     packages=['penn'],
     license='MIT',
     package_data={