I don’t know what to do. I get so frustrated at my roommate sometimes. I want to do my homework in our room, but she always goes to bed before me, and so she asks me to leave the room if I’m going to be staying up because she doesn’t want to be woken up by my typing or the light. It’s totally understandable, but its still irritating because I want to be able to be in my room because it’s my room too, but I have to take all my shit with me downstairs because my typing or the light is distracting. We kind of compromised at the beginning of the year by saying that I’d leave the room if I was staying up late and in return she would get ready in the bathroom in the mornings since she has super early classes, but her alarm wakes me up most mornings and she still gets ready in our room some of the time. She goes outside to do her makeup and stuff, but she still brushes her teeth in here, which doesn’t make sense to me, because the sink is right next to my bed and it’s louder than doing make up. So there you go. I’m just wishing I could have my own room because I love my roommate and we are super close (we got super close senior year of HS and decided to room together), it’s just this one thing that gets on my nerves. I know that if I bring it up, she will get defensive and won’t really receive it well since we made that compromise at the beginning of the year. I’m just tired of being kicked out of my own room for hours because I study later at night. She only has to leave the room for about a half-hour.
When my husband and I are at our summer home, we don’t have a separate computer room. He usually wakes up way before me and gets on the computer to do his email and the music stuff that he does. He has this tiny light to go with his laptop, uses headphones for his laptop, and tries his best to type as quietly as he can while I sleep in the same room. My point is that living with someone always takes compromise, even after 35+ years. You and your roommate need to work this out.
How late are you studying? If you tell me 10pm, then I agree with you. If you tell me 2am, then I agree with your roommate.