<p>My floor is known for being loud because most of the people there are athletes but even so it seems like a personality thing. I feel like it's been getting worse in the past 2 weeks after some room switches that got some girls closer together... </p>
<p>For instance last night around Midnight-1AM they were literally yelling in the room right by me. I hear everything and not just that but they went out into the hallways and ran, yelled, and laugh. They also congregate around my door because my roommate is friends with all of them.</p>
<p>They think it's okay to come into my room. They think it's okay to be loud inside my room. They think it's okay to pound on my door.</p>
<p>Just 30 minutes ago I was on my bed on the computer and I fell asleep to a youtube video then suddenly it got super wild outside because they are going to a Halloween event. 10 people came into my room as I was sleeping and they were being very loud , I heard someone say "Aww I'm sorry roommate" but they were extremely loud and hyper. I felt really disrespected.</p>
<p>My friends dorms are very quiet and her school is more crazy than mine...and my other friend was on the phone with me once and she was whispering, I asked her why and she said because it's quiet hours. QUIET HOUR does not exist on my wing, it's a joke.. My CA is nice and all but...she doesn't enforce the rules. They are so loud and don't care if they get written up and it's not 2 people it's 3/4 of my wing.</p>
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<p>I will talk to my CA tomorrow. Everything else is fine but the noise .</p>
<p>I second the suggestion of noise-canceling headphones. However, if they are constantly barging into your room, then it’s still going to be distracting. Maybe you should go elsewhere to do homework or study, such as the library?</p>
<p>Thank you guys. But the thing is I usually do hw somewhere else out of habit. When they are loud it’s when I am either relaxing, chilling online, in a skype call, or sleeping in my room</p>
<p>athletics and college should not mix. i know many people like sports, but school is not about that and many athletes should not be enrolled. that space could be taken by a real student!</p>
<p>Maybe tell them your side of the story and see if they might be slightly quieter a little next time? It’s outright impossible for all students to be nearly silent at any time of the day, just won’t happen. But see if you can talk to them and if not, go to your RA or housing director.</p>
<p>My dorm area consist of 6 buildings, and our area are known as the non-off-campus party capital of campus. However, it’s quiet during the week, and deadly silent at night. But once Friday night rolls around, it’s game on for the entire place.</p>
<p>I normally just do my homework in the day, and go to my friends’ rooms when nighttime come around. Either that, or I go to the library. The RAs and the housing staff can’t do anything to make your place less noisy…unless you counts giving warnings “anything”. And most housing staff know they are powerless to enforce quiet time or whatnot.</p>
<p>MOST athletes are “real students”. Get over that jock stereotype. It by and large does not hold true. My cousin is a recruited athlete at UMich and has a 3.8+ GPA in Neuroscience. And no, she is not atypical. Coaches, by and large, hold their students to a very high standard.</p>
<p>romanigypsyeyes if this was 2 months ago I would have agreed with you but I have to side with that other poster. the vast majority of student athletes that I’m coming across and meeting could care less about their workload. It’s just like a big party and their coaches save their asses if they fail a class. I am literally watching it happen…</p>
<p>My daughter was a physics/ Japanese dual major among humanities majors who did not start class until about 11 each morning. It was a challenge to say the least. She called me one morning about 2 and I told her to go wake up the RA. It is a respect issue. Surely there are some policies in place that could be talked about. Speak up. Then speak up again. Best wishes. It is not easy being the one who needs sleep.</p>
<p>romanigypsyeyes - I don’t really think that knowing one person who has a 3.8 as an athlete/neuroscience major really amounts to much. That’s definitely a remarkable achievement, but I think it’s more the exception than the norm.</p>
<p>I say this because the requirements and time commitments of varsity athletics (meaning, not club/intramural, which are still quite time consuming in their own right) are just so much that they become the primary aspect of a student-athlete’s college life. Think about it - you have daily (or almost daily) practice, games, tournaments, and road trips. I write for the sports section of my school’s newspaper and the athletes always tell me that they have to squeeze in midterms when they’re on the road because their athletic schedules are so busy. </p>
<p>Plus, that’s why the majority of athletes don’t major in the STEM fields. It’s not at all that they’re incapable of doing so intellectually; they simply don’t have the time, and for almost all of them, athletics come first, or else they wouldn’t have devoted the effort to it. I think that’s what the person meant by “real student” although yes, it is important to note that they still take classes and have to take midterms and stuff. It’s just not as big of a priority as it is for full-time students.</p>
<p>But anyway, I don’t want to devolve this into a debate between students and athletes since that’s not the primary topic, but yeah you should definitely do something about it. Getting headphones or studying somewhere else will work but those aren’t permanent solutions. If the people on your floor are disrupting you on a consistent basis and it’s getting out of hand, then you need to take it up with the RA or whoever’s in charge because you didn’t sign up for these distractions.</p>
<p>We debated this in one of my classes, and this opinion unfortunately is common. But athletes do still have to maintain a certain GPA just as the rest of the non-athelete students do. In fact, it’s more challenging for them because they have to do BOTH.</p>
<p>I’m currently in the same situation. I’m basically just leave the room/floor and hang out with friends till things get “quiet”… well whenever that is. Some people from what I’ve heard, might be transferring next semester, so I’m hoping other rooms open up and I can transfer to another room.</p>
<p>There is a distinct difference between athletes in the “profit” sports (football and basketball mainly, plus some baseball and hockey players looking to go pro) and the other teams (soccer, track, lacrosse, rowing, etc.), and even then, differences between players on those teams. It’s really not fair to say that all student athletes are not real students. As a Division 1 athlete myself, I’ll admit that yes there are many athletes who really are not students, but they’re mostly on the basketball team (and probably football for other schools, we don’t have a team). Less than half of my teammates have scholarships. We have a 100 percent graduation rate, and a quarter of us are on the Dean’s List (>3.5 GPA) each semester. We study abroad and do internships just like everyone else. Please don’t say most athletes aren’t real students. And as for priorities, I spend little more time in practice each day as non-athletes spend partying and socializing. My sacrifice is that, not academics. </p>
<p>Better than noise canceling headphones, invest in some silicone ear plugs. They work amazingly well, and are comfortable enough to sleep or study with. Also, let your roommate(s) know that you are not pleased with what has been happening. Not sure if this would work in your situation, but a couple of the athletes on my floor once made as much noise as possible in the halls screaming and such at 5am on our way to practice so everyone else would understand. That helped a lot with the noise levels at midnight and such.</p>