<p>Hi I was wondering if it is hard to sleep in college due to noise at night?
I go to bed around 10 or 11... Will it be hard to sleep? Any tips?</p>
<p>Well, from my experience, most people go to sleep very, very late, like past 1am. My roommate freshman year was like clockwork and went to bed at midnight, so I did too, but there was a girl a few doors down that practiced for her music class at like 1am.</p>
<p>Usually the dorm has a designated set of quiet hours (ours are 11-7), but most people don’t adhere to them anyway. </p>
<p>My advice would be to get earplugs and think about maybe getting used to sleeping with the light on. Your roommate might not want to go to bed at 10 every night, and it wouldn’t be fair for you to demand that they be quiet. You do have a right to be respected, though, so you’d have to work it out with them. </p>
<p>Also, it depends on when you have class. If you don’t have class until 12pm, you might find that you’ll change your ways and stay up a little later! Especially if all the fun stuff goes on after midnight :)</p>
<p>It strong depends on the “culture” of your floor. </p>
<p>My first dorm was easy to go to sleep in mainly due to the layout of the floors. I was able to go to sleep by 10 and not be interrupted. Even better my roommate went to sleep early, too. </p>
<p>My second dorm is a different story. Lots of night owls. Lots of commotion, but I’m still able to go to sleep by 10. I’m on of the very few who go to sleep so early. The rest go to sleep around 2AM or later. </p>
<p>The floor may be louder but you’ll be surprised how it doesn’t affect your sleep as much as you thought it would. </p>
<p>If you’re a light sleeper get earplugs, eye mask, and something that’ll produce some whte notice. A fan easily drowns out noises.</p>
<p>I recommend that you pick to live in the smallest dorm your college offers for freshman as the smaller the dorm generally the quieter the dorm is and therefore it will be easier for you to go to bed at ten</p>
<p>Also, if you’re a light sleeper-some colleges offer single person rooms in suite style set up.</p>
<p>Yeah, going to sleep around 10 and 11 might be a bit hard on some days. My floor has 25 kids, including a few guys who like to be loud. Even though we have this rule where you can’t be loud past a certain times, it doesn’t seem like people obey it. There’s this guy on my floor who lived right next to the common room and after a few months he just couldn’t take the noise anymore and moved to the honors college dorm. He liked it a lot better there 'cause apparently everyone else was really studious and not as loud.</p>
<p>My floor have like 80 guys (?)
Quiet hours is like 8 pm on weekdays. There will be occasionally loud random bursts but I wouldn’t say it is hard (really it depend on what the floor rules are.) Although this dorm is like half honor college so that could be a factor. But I sometime go to another floor around 10-ish in the same dorm and it’s somewhat loud. So really it varies. </p>
<p>If it is loud… well ear plugs I guess. If there is blasting music you can always ask them to turn it down (unless it happen to be the RA >.>)</p>
<p>I’m in an honors dorm and my floor is loud. It’s not hard to go to sleep. If you can only go to sleep in dead silence, then good luck to you. You’re going to need it. Invest in some earplugs as others have suggested. But still. It isn’t hard to go to sleep. </p>
<p>If people are making a ruckus outside your room, genuinely try to go to sleep for 15 minutes. That means calm down, focus on yourself (not those making noise), and let yourself relax enough to fall asleep. If you can’t go to sleep, tell them. One night, the pople below me were having a party and their bass was so loud my water on my desk was shaking. When it was time to go to bed I could feel the bass through my bed. Rather than huffing and puffing for who knows how long, I just relaxed and fell asleep.</p>