<p>If you are living in a room with your roomate, how are sleep schedules? Do you go to bed at the same time as your roomate, or does roomate keep working while you are sleeping? do you tell your roomate that you are going to sleep, or you just sleep?</p>
<p>I usually stay up way after my roommate goes to sleep. I usually hit the bed around 1-2 am, he usually goes around 11 pm. When he goes to bed, we turn the room lights off and I use my desk lamp and headphones to continue working (and vice versa, on the rare occasions that he stays up later than me).</p>
<p>same here, 2-3 am though</p>
<p>Exactly what GS said.</p>
<p>works out great for me b/c my roommate goes to sleep almost as late as i do so generally we don't have to worry about that. some days i go to sleep real late and i just turn the lights off and try not to make noise. he does the same when he goes to sleep later than i do. usually the amount of times he sleeps later than me and vice versa evens out.</p>
<p>My roommate and I usually go to bed at around the same time. When we do stay up late, we just turn on the desk lights, use earphones, and try not to make much noise.</p>
<p>My roommate and I usually go to bed at same time but if we don't then we have a routine. We don't tell each other generally if we are going to sleep; when my roommate goes to sleep I take that as a cue to turn off the lights and then use my desk lamp instead. I always use headphones so that's not a problem. Sometimes I will leave the room if I feel what I am doing could be possibly disrupting and do it in one of the study rooms on our floor. Neither of us is easily disturbed or picky so sleep is not that big of an issue with us but we show respect for one another by trying to keep noise to a minimum.</p>
<p>I try to go to bed by 2-3, but my roommate often pulls all nighters...ugh</p>
<p>I always go to bed first around 11 or 12 and my roommate stays up much later -but she always turns the lights off for me and puts on her headphones!</p>
<p>do any of you wear sleeping masks if you are trying to sleep yet the roomate insists on keeping the lights on?</p>
<p>Your roommate insists on leaving the lights on?</p>
<p>I'm not in college but I had another chance to have a roommate and mine would use her desk lamp and sometimes even offered to go out into the hall- she was very nice about it.</p>
<p>Did you ask them to use a smaller lamp and they refused? If that happened to me, I probably wouldn't need a sleeping mask (I'm not picky about sleeping conditions)... if the light was really bothering me I would put a pillow over my eyes or turn over or maybe put the blankets over my head. I've never tried a mask, I would think they would be uncomfortable.</p>
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do any of you wear sleeping masks if you are trying to sleep yet the roomate insists on keeping the lights on?
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Hopefully, that case wouldn't arise. You can wear a mask if you can deal with the feeling. Your best bet is just to get used to sleeping with noise and/or light. It'll make your life easier if you have a roommate like this (I am not saying this roommate is doing something wrong, though).</p>
<p>me and my roommate go to bed at the same time, but wake up at different times. getting around in the morning and trying to be quiet while your roommate is sleeping can sometimes be a pain.</p>
<p>me and my roommate had completely different sleep schedules. </p>
<p>she would go to bed at around midnight and i went to bed most nights are 2 am. i always did my homework in the study lounge in my building so she would always be alseep when i came back. then i would spend like 20 minutes on my laptop before sleeping but i always tired to type quietly cause i felt bad.</p>
<p>she was the kind of person who woke up to do work early so that was always really irritating to me cause i LOVE to sleep late. plus she never left the room to do anything so i would be woken up at 8 half of hte mornings to the sound of her typing and flipping though books. she also used to not have a problem slamming drawers and stuff. really not considerate but i didnt want to make a big deal of it.</p>
<p>she told me when she was going to sleep and aksed if she could shut off the light. defiently always shut off the light if one is trying to sleep. i used to take naps during the day all the time and she had no issue being noisy then either</p>
<p>This was really useful. Thank you guys for posting this!</p>
<p>I asked this in the other roomie thread--but what happens if a roommate has issues waking up to alarm clocks?</p>
<p>You have to wake up. They can go back to sleep.</p>
<p>All you can do is try to shut it off quickly.</p>
<p>haha, the whole having to turn off the alarm thing before i disturbed my roommates made me SO much better at waking up in the mornings because i couldn't just lay there and pretend it wasn't going off</p>
<p>one of my roommates (in a triple) used to stay up at all hours of the night because her classes started at noon. but like most people here said, she was considerate with the noise and just kept her desk lamp on.</p>
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You have to wake up. They can go back to sleep.</p>
<p>All you can do is try to shut it off quickly.
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Ditto that.
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haha, the whole having to turn off the alarm thing before i disturbed my roommates made me SO much better at waking up in the mornings because i couldn't just lay there and pretend it wasn't going off
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Same here.</p>
<p>The whole noise issue is questionable. I try not to slam doors and drawers and whatnot, but I can't be completely silent. Your roommate just has to deal.</p>
<p>I use my cell phone as an alarm and it starts out really quietly and builds volume. It always plays the same song so I sort of associate that sound with "WAKE UP." Because it starts off quietly, I would get up just as it started and my roommate didn't even stir. Very nice. </p>
<p>Usually we had morning things happening at the same time, so we tried to coordinate our wake-up times as best we could anyway... At this program we were paired completely randomly but it actually turned out really well.</p>
<p>Don't abuse the snooze, and everything will be alright.
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