<p>I chose to get away from the main residence hall (the one with a suite style living) for this year since the students made too much noise at night and I couldn't get too much sleep on some nights. So I moved into the smallest dorm on campus with all single rooms. I already know that they were constructing a new building for the school of business nearby. But what I was not expecting was the construction taking out the side walk and doing something with the water pipes right outside of my dorm. So it is a little inconvenient when trying to get around campus.</p>
<p>Now here is the part I cannot stand. Every morning (or most mornings) I wake up to the construction noise. Machines making noises, hammers and shovels banging, and construction workers shouting and talking at each other right outside my room! This goes on for most of the day until the evenings when the workers go home. The only good part of living in my new dorm is that the single rooms have more space, and there would be less students making noise at night. So I get better sleep at night.</p>
<p>Just ranting on my frustrations about the construction noise right outside my room. I don't know if I should move back to the residence hall I have originally been staying in for the past few semesters or if I should move to another part of the dorm where the window is not facing the construction noise. The construction noise is really starting to annoy me during the day.</p>
<p>My first year in the dorms, they were building a new apartment building and redoing the dining hall (neither of which I got to use the following year even though I had to deal with the construction for a year!). If you can move, sure, go for it. Being on the other side of the building from the construction zone can do wonders for the sound problem.</p>
<p>But other than that, my sympathies. I went through the same thing, but it’s really not that big of a deal, tbh. If the noise bothers you during the day, then get out of your room and go to another part of the campus. Waking up early in the morning with the construction was annoying, but at least, I was never late for class =D You’ll adjust.</p>
<p>Colleges are a business and you need to treat them that way. If you were staying in a hotel and they were doing construction they would give you your money back. So they owe you and maybe should even pay you. And you can use that for a good excuse if you get bad grades and make them give you the next grade up or stuff like that. But if theres noise and I cant sleep I put on trance music or rain or waves. But I hate the rain noises with thunder. And find out the name of the construction company and whoever is the foreman and get his cell number. But don’t be mean to him. Just if they are being loud you can call him and tell them to be more quiet. They are all people with feelings to so if you do it rite you can get them to just come back some other time or do the work slower so they aren’t banging stuff as loud.</p>
<p>I do hope you are kidding kollegekid1! Yes the college is a business, but they are giving the student what he contracted for - a place to sleep and keep his stuff. Very few hotels would offer money back for construction noises. Instead they post a notice about the noise, and allow their customers the choice to stay or not. Nobody is going to take such noise as an excuse for grades either (that goes along with the urban myth about getting an automatic A in every class if your roommate suicides). </p>
<p>If the noise bothers you, there are other places on campus where you can study. You can ask about moving, but understand that every dorm (and every room) is likely to have something annoying about it. I wouldn’t pay extra for a single in this situation, but you have to decide which type of noise is more problematic - or which one you can deal with best. Before you start looking to move to the other side of the building, find out if the noise level is better there - and whether there will be construction over there at some point. It may also be worthwhile to see if you can find out how long this project is likely to take (how long until they’re done, or at least until they will be done with the heavy equipment.</p>
<p>kollegekid, CTS said it all for me-- Are you for real, or just trolling?</p>
<p>Really? Ask construction crews to be quieter? As if mechanical equipment can operated “quietly” and construction workers can hammer more softly?</p>
<p>Sounds like you’ve got a couple of options… </p>
<p>The easiest thing to do would be to stop staying in your room all day and find some nice quiet place on campus to study, and maybe get some earplugs to help with the noise in the morning. You might also want to see if school has an estimate on how long construction’ll be going, at least the part right outside your window, since that could help determine if you want a long/short term solution.</p>
<p>The other option is to change dorms, if your school allows it and has space elsewhere. Are there singles elsewhere on campus you could move to? Or, if the construction is really bothering you, is there an opening in a nice, quiet double?</p>
<p>I honestly can’t believe the first suggestion of earplugs was 6 posts down. Get. Earplugs. The rubber ones, if available. And if you need to hear things over the noise without the burden of increased amplitudes, Sony has some pretty decent noise-cancelling headphones around $30-50.</p>
<p>Well the band plays right outside my dorm and there are several construction going on you basically hear nothing from them. The older thing I would suggest is earplug and dealing with it. I usually listen to music passing the construction site so the sound is kinda negligible… until the band is near you.</p>