<p>For what ungodly reason are you going to bed at 1030-11? Half my dorm-floor is on the lacross team and have 6:00 practices every day. They don't go to sleep until ~1A which is far more reasonable. Keep in mind you are the outlier in this situation, and he is probably already very annoyed that he has to watch his noise level at reasonable hours in the night. Imagine if he demanded silence at 6pm, wouldn't you be ****ed?</p>
<p>This is one reason why I will not stay on campus next year. My roommate sometimes decides to go to sleep early (11ish--early IMO) and then not wake up till 11ish(thats right about 12 hours). I have to tiptoe coming in, tiptoe coming out, and tiptoe after coming back from my 8-10am class. It's ridiculous! I paid the same amount of money as he did, yet I have to sit in the dark because he wants to sleep through his classes.</p>
<p>Get some earplugs. Problem solved.</p>
<p>I meant weekdays, sorry about the confusion.</p>
<p>"Imagine if he demanded silence at 6pm, wouldn't you be ****ed?"</p>
<p>No, I would be delighted. I don't watch tv and use earphones for everything, so this would actually be wonderful.</p>
<p>If the Ops attitude carries through to his "comprimising" with the roommate, good luck</p>
<p>Here is what you should do:</p>
<p>Earphones, headsets, eye masks</p>
<p>And it is not unreasonable to have the TV on until 11, and you came off like a whining child not letting him finish his show, I would be P)#(*#d too.</p>
<p>As for studying in another room, it can mean dragging your books, your computer, you cell phone, all your stuff somewhere</p>
<p>Imagine what he tells his friends- my roommate goes to bed a 1030 and I can't make noise, he doesn't want me in the room, it has to be dark in the room at 1030</p>
<p>My Ds in 7th grade were up past 1030...</p>
<p>Next year I suggest getting a single</p>
<p>You really are being unreasonable about this. It's his room, too...he shouldn't have to plan his life around your sleep schedule.</p>
<p>goldshadow, while i see the others point, I understand your issue. my roommate and i last year were bffs, but still she would study often very late into the night, and even if she was pretty quiet, the light would bother me. I understand you need your sleep, but your roommate has the right to relax in his room and watch TV at this relatively early hour. My advice? decide on no tv after midnight on sunday-thurs, and weekend nights IF and only IF you must wake up super early the next day. Then get in the habit of going to the gym or doing something physically exhausting so you'll have no trouble getting to sleep with a little light on. believe me, this works.</p>
<p>Dude, do you want any damned advice or are you just going to criticize anyone who says something you don't want to hear? </p>
<p>**** off, if the latter is the case.</p>
<p>Just remember: 2.5 more months...2.5 more months...2.5 more months.</p>
<p>This is why I'm living in an oncampus apartment next year--I'll be with my three best friends here at school (well one of them, two of us been having issues with but thats getting better) but we'll have separate bedrooms. I love these girls to death and would go crazy if we didn't live together (since we already live apart now and its hard to plan stuff) but sometimes we just need our privacy and we all have different schedules and patterns. </p>
<p>But remember: 2.5 more months...2.5 more months. Back in August it was 9 months...9 months...9 months</p>
<p>like most people said, you need to ease up a little...10:30 is REALLY early for a college student to sleep. the last time i went to bed that early was when i was sick.
my roommate and i are pretty considerate of each other's study/sleep schedules...if one is in the room and the other is studying, we try and respect that. if i were your roommate, i wouldn't want to go to the study room, even if it IS next door, because i prefer studying in my room.</p>
<p>and by the way, it's "courtesy"...</p>
<p>seems to me you're being the difficult one</p>
<p>wow...comanch....ur a little *****...i bet that u dont get any pussy at all</p>
<p>I completely agree with the noise. I'm sorry, but my sleep schedule is very sporadic, and whenever I am sleeping, I don't want noise.</p>
<p>Our double is probably 8*12, and with 2 desks and 2 beds, noise is all over the place. If I am napping at 3 in the afternoon, I expect it to be quiet. Anything is else is your roomate just being rude. I dont make noise when he is sleeping, I hope he does the same (which he doesnt). </p>
<p>In college, sleep is very valuable and takes precedent over watching TV.</p>
<p>As far as the light, I would get a night mask. Him slamming things is again just being rude and mean. Tell him to please be quiter. If he isnt, start slamming things at 630 and see how he likes it.</p>
<p>If you guys dont at least try to be quiet when your roomate is sleeping, then you are very self-centered.</p>
<p>^ my roomate does exactly that. When I am in bed, he keeps the lights on and the tv,which is seven feet right on the feet of my bed, at a normal-bothersome volume. When he goes to sleep, he expects the lights to be turned off and everything quiet.I, as a considerate person, even turn the lights off from him and lower the screen brightness on my laptop. So, yeah, he DOESN'T even try to be quiet when I am in bed, alsmost as if he was in the room by himself. One of these days, I will ask him to turn the tv down and respect when I am reading something for school. If he doesn't, a noise war will break out and I will make sure he gets a taste of hell. I will even buy a baseball bat in case things heat up in the room just to feel secure, since he is 6'4" and thinks anyone shorter than 6 feet is a joke.</p>
<p>Mark, and whoever else complains, have any of you ever said anything? Like maybe you should mention it, your roommate could honestly not know, they dont know what type of person you are.</p>
<p>hyakku, the guy is clearly taking advantage of my compliant personality. In the first week of classes I used to go to bed quite early,and as soon as I lay in bed( around 9:30), he would politely turn the lights off. Now, I will go to bed at 10:30 and he pretty much does not do anything to keep down the noise or show any respect for my habits, but as soon as it is time for HIM to sleep, he demands absolute silence. The other day, he actually asked me to stay in bed until 10 on saturdays. Apparently, the fact that I get up early on weekdays bothers the sleeping beauty!!!</p>
<p>So, don't tell me he isn't aware that the loud tv and lack of consideration irritates me. Like OSu said, if your roomate doesn't even try to be quiet when you are trying to sleep, he/she is deliberately being disrespectful and self-centered.</p>
<p>In my case, the problem doesn't really have to do with sleep in particular, as I don't expect to fall asleep as soon as I hit the bed. The problem is that, with the tv at that volume, I can't do any studying or even listen to podcasts on my ipod. And this takes place everyday; he will enter the room turn the tv on some stupid channel(moslty mtv) that I hate and pretend that I don't even exist. As a result, I can't read, do homework, or even make an important call in the room. I take responsibility for letting that ass**** establish this superiority over my rights, but I am about to snap at any second.</p>
<p>You did the right thing coming here to ask totally unreliable strangers for answers with your personal life. You need help. Because there is nothing that you can ever do to resolve this situation on your own. The whole problem is your fault. You are a terrible room-mate and there is nothing that you can ever do about it. </p>
<p>You should ask sauronvoldermort for physchotheropy and absolute guidance on how to live your life. But before you do, I can already tell you that having sex with your roommate will make him treat you better. So next time you ask him to turn off the TV and you have an argument, you should strip naked while he yells at you and bargain to do whatever he asks as long as he turns of the TV. This will resolve all your problems and send you into a happy place free from troubles and doubts. And I am sure your roommate will agree to whatever you ask. Sex solves all of life's problems.</p>
<p>Hey charizardpal, that's the entire point of forums. To discuss things with other people, who you probably don't know.</p>