I am currently living on campus in a suite with 5 other people (school name unimportant). They are very nice and we get along well, but they are so loud at night that it is insane. They are all best friends since freshman year and I was stuck in at the last minute because they had room. The person I share a bedroom with is quiet and does not yell or anything, but on weeknights, the other guys are up screaming and yelling until 2 or 3am, and on weekends it is until about 4 or 4:30 when they are not out. I don’t go to bed crazy early (12 on weeknights, 1 or 2 on weekends) but this noise is crazy. I do not have headphones or white noise, but I don’t know how I can cope with the noise without ruining their fun, since friends should be allowed to have fun and enjoy each other’s company, especially on weekends when I have nowhere to be the next day. Last night, they were up making a movie and ringing the doorbell, screaming and yelling, and running up and down the hallway and common area until just after 4am, and I had attempted to go to sleep at midnight and didn’t fall asleep until closer to 4:30. This isn’t the case every night, but most nights, it is. Even when I don’t have anywhere to be, I would like to be able to go to sleep when I want to. Last night at 4, I left my bedroom and asked them to please stop screaming and they toned it down, but it was still prevalent. Anyway, is there a way I can approach this without ruining their fun or should I talk to the RA? Or somehow resort to white noise or headphones? And no, moving out is NOT an option right now. And last night was the first time I left my room and told them to be quiet because I normally do not feel it is within my rights to intervene.
Wow. How is anyone getting any rest? Surprised no one on the hall has complained. that level of noise on a consistent basis is not normal. Talk to the RA confidentially. Ask him to to say there have been complaints from people in the building. Your RA needs to step up and do his job. Otherwise either invest in some headphones (or earplugs are cheap).
Wow, they sound really, really immature. Get the RA involved. Buy some earplugs.
My daughter had a very noisy next door neighbor freshman year. Even though she had a single, the walls were paper thin. I got her a Bose noise cancellation headphones and she went to sleep with them most nights. Back then they were over your ears and were not very comfortable. They now make earbuds and they are more comfortable. You may want to invest in a pair.
I would also have a talk with your suite mates to see if could tone it down especially on weeknights.
@jmek15 this is apartment style housing. By the hallway, I mean the hallway inside our apartment, not the hallway for the whole building. There is the hallway, 3 bedrooms in that hallway, a kitchen and a living room in the apartment but it is still maintained by the university.
@beachguy20 I understand. Thank you for the clarification. So to sum up the situation, you aren’t comfortable dealing with this directly (and I can see why that approach might not be the best way to go), there isn’t an RA or housing rep in the building, and you can’t move (for reasons not disclosed), correct? But you feel like things can’t continue - you need your sleep! It’s a bit underhanded, but why not just send an anonymous letter to housing with a noise complaint? In the meantime, get some earplugs at your local drugstore. I hope as the semester progresses they will get more serious and spend time studying rather than making your life miserable.
@jmek15 there is an RA and an RD but no quiet hours in the building.