<p>I'm a freshman and my floor is so noisy at night, even during "quiet hours"...the RA doesn't really enforce them. Unfortunately, I also live right across from the loudest guys on the floor. I went to an info session a few days ago for the club crew team and it sounds awesome, but I would have to up at 4 AM every morning for practice which would mean going to bed between 10-11. That seems impossible in the dorms. Is there anyone who goes to bed around this time? How do you combat the noise?</p>
<p>I actually have the same problem. I would complain to the Housing Accommodation. Personally I put ear plugs on, it works most of the time.</p>
<p>I do occasionally go to bed that early when my work is done. I live on the ground floor so I am used to quite a bit of noise and don’t need silence to sleep. However, on the occasion that things are really out of hand I don’t have a problem asking the RA to make a reminder announcement about quiet hours if my own personal request that they quiet down isn’t reasonably respected. That has always worked without having to go further. If it didn’t work, I would have to go above the RA’s heads to whoever is in charge of the building, and in a pinch would probably call security if it was after 12 and <em>nothing</em> else had worked. </p>
<p>That probably makes me an *******, but I really don’t care in the slightest. I’ve thankfully only had reason to complain about the noise once or twice, and asking the RA to make a general reminder announcement about quiet hours has been sufficient.</p>
<p>God, I wish I knew how to make them be quiet. Our quiet hours are completely unenforced. You have people laughing and yelling and talking at insane volumes to like 1:00-2:00 AM every night. It’s terrible. Between them and my roommate, I never get enough sleep. I think I got…5 hours last night? Maybe.</p>
<p>Exact same thing here Rixs. It’s actually really frustrating.</p>
<p>Ear plugs. My friend swears by them.
Also, I’m on the crew team and I don’t go to bed that early. I just nap, an awful lot.</p>
<p>I hate to break it to you, but college isn’t designed for people who want to study hard and go to sleep early.</p>
<p>I’m so glad that I can usually fall asleep regardless of the noise. Otherwise college would probably be a nightmare for me. xD</p>
<p>^same.</p>
<p>I have a fan. I love the white noise it makes, and it blocks out a lot of sounds.</p>
<p>I also go with earplugs. My only problem is that my floor is so loud that I need pretty heavy duty ones to get anywhere near silence, but then it can be hard for me to hear my alarm clock in the morning. I really like the white noise idea also, I think I’ll have to give that a try.</p>
<p>I can’t sleep with earplugs in, but I do go to sleep early (as in midnight). Quiet hours during the week are like 10PM, but seriously? Last night my neighbors were yelling and screaming and playing brass instruments (???) at like 11:30. OR on weekends they all enjoy loud drunk partying, etc.
Solution? “Hey, can you guys quiet down? I have to wake up early.”
They should respect that. You asked nicely, they should know there’s quiet hours (or tell them). Living in a dorm is about knowing how to communicate.</p>
<p>^That’s funny. Nobody ever quiets down just because they are asked by a peer. When I ask people if they could be a little quieter because they are running through the halls screaming at 3am, they mock me like I am some sort of crazy person for expecting them to behave differently. “Knowing how to communicate,” unfortunately, means knowing how to work the bureaucracy when someone isn’t doing their job-- in this case namely the RAs.</p>
<p>I manage to get to bed by 10-11 each night… how?</p>
<p>Either wake up early (like 5 AM) and get active (I go to the gym), keep yourself busy all day, that way you are so burned at the end you can sleep easily.<br>
Option 2 is to live on nyquil, which I also do from time to time.</p>
<p>As an alternative to earplugs, if you have an MP3 player, put on either some light music or an audiobook while you are in bed. Of course, it could have the opposite effect and make you more awake, but it usually helps me sleep.</p>
<p>I’ll second the fan/white noise suggestion. I can sleep without it if I really wanted, but it makes you so much more comfortable. The breeze and the white noise, which supposedly reminds our brains of the womb, can be very calming.</p>
<p>Not to mention, it drowns out the noise people are making (I live right next to the common area). </p>
<p>Just a thought.</p>
<p>In my room, it’s 24 hour quiet hours since I live with the RA. But yeah, our dorm is antisocial for the most part so it’s pretty quiet. I think there’s one or two rooms that are loud way too late, so I just yell out the window for them to shut the frack up</p>
<p>I second ear plugs! Although they give my vertigo if I’m choked up. If that’s the case I listen to the thunder and lightning sound on iserenity.com . You could also try and get used to the noise by listening to audio books (of stories you know well) as you fall asleep.</p>
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<p>I seriously hope you don’t expect people in a college campus to be quiet and not make any noise at 10PM. I don’t think your RA or security can help you enforce this because it is just unrealistic. Your best bet is to get used to sleeping with earphones in as that will cancel most of the noise.</p>
<p>Thanks for the suggestions guys. To the people who use earplugs, do you have trouble hearing your alarm in the morning?</p>
<p>If you have trouble hearing your alarm, use the alarm function on your phone and put it under your pillow. This works better if your phone vibrates when the alarm goes off, but if not, you should still be able to hear it.</p>