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Sleeping through noise
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I need your help - I'm in a different room this year at uni, and my neighbours are quite loud. The others on my floor are rugby players who know each other, and always leave their doors open with music coming out.
I've only been here 3 nights, but each night i've been kept awake until about 3 am but a party going on in a neigbouring room (but never the same one). I'm getting quite depressed about it, as I'm really tired. I don't really want to complain to them yet as I'm going to have to get on with them for a whole year.
So does anyone have any tips of what to do, or how to sleep when there's loud music nearby?
I've only been here 3 nights, but each night i've been kept awake until about 3 am but a party going on in a neigbouring room (but never the same one). I'm getting quite depressed about it, as I'm really tired. I don't really want to complain to them yet as I'm going to have to get on with them for a whole year.
So does anyone have any tips of what to do, or how to sleep when there's loud music nearby?
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Earplugs would be the obvious answer.
You can ask them to shut the door y'know, it's not asking an awful lot.
I'm trying a sleep mask at the moment! Maybe you shoudl give the ear plugs a go.
They really need to show some more consideration but perhaps they haven't realised that they are disturbing you...I don't think talking to them about it is going to offend them, it just shows them that there are other people in the world that they have to consider before they do exactly as they want to!
Good luck!
Good luck
Are we living in the same place!?!
I am in the same place I was in last year and had the same problem...well not music just very loud shagging every night!
This year it's a combination of having flatmates that only have 4 hours of classes a week (i have 25) loud, crap music and boys who just like to shout really loudly at 3am!
As others have said just try nicely asking them to keep it down, if that doesn't work and you're in a hall, try speaking to the warden/resident tutor etc...
Bopz
P.S. Earplugs = Sleep through alarm (personal experiance (sp)):crazyeyes
I wouldn't mind too much but I've been a bit poorly and could really do with some sleep....!
Made worse by my flatmates going up to join them - makes it harder to complain because it's just me wanting them to be quiet.
A couple of nights I've waited till about midnight then asked them to keep it down a bit.
Probably helped by my snifflings and going down in my pyjamas....
As far as I'm aware they don't hate me! They even brought me cookies yesterday cos I said I'd been ill
Good luck!
A quiet word in someone's ear about the noise, how it is affecting your sleep and also how you can't concentrate the next day and the uni might send a caretaker or something around to sort them out.
Maybe wait a few days though, and see if it continues. Chances are that there are excited to be back and with each other again and are using this as an opportunity to catch up!
I hate that! My roommate last year was like that - and totally unapologetic! Sometimes however, she tried to mask the noise by ... wait for it... putting music on.
I stormed out on a few occasions, once in just a throw and pjs because I was too annoyed to think rationally!