Guys next to my room just keep turning the music with loud bass

[JasonRox]

What are you implying? Does anyone move into a dorm because they want to? Usually it is the only economically feasible option.

Studying would probably be better done in the Library though. Dorms are for sleeping.

They move into a dorm because they want to. But are not so clueless to think that students are going to be quiet at 11am and disturb no one.

 

[Monocerotis]

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Go to war with your dormmate, all out battle royal no holds barred !

 

[DaveC426913]

The problem would have been solved if he used his brain before moving into the dorms.

What are you implying? Does anyone move into a dorm because they want to? Usually it is the only economically feasible option.

They move into a dorm because they want to. But are not so clueless to think that students are going to be quiet at 11am and disturb no one.

It is a bit presumptuous to pass judgement on what experience and circumstances the OP has.

 

[Chi Meson]

Ear plugs.

http://www.macksearplugs.com/pillow_soft_silicone_earplugs.htm"

The silicone ones. I swear by them. I had the same problem 20 years ago. There is only so far you can go with jerks. Even if they get quiet for a while, they will surprise you one night at 2 AM with some booming crap.

It doesn't stop in dorms either. Off campus apartments, and even student neighborhoods have exactly the same problem.

I had the ultimate defense: Mack's silicone plugs and an http://www.google.com/products/cata...t=result&resnum=9&ved=0CDgQ8wIwCA#ps-sellers" fan for white noise.

Alarm clock was set REALLY LOUD! (Payback in the morning! but don't rub it in).

Remember, better sleep will make you a better person.

The baseball bat solution will make you a worse person. If you are sleeping, then the problem is resolved.

I am so very serious, no other plugs will work as well.

 

[TheStatutoryApe]

Straw men.
Cleaning one's apartment or talking on the phone are significantly and quantifiably different from partying with loud music.

Oops, missed the part about keeping him awake. His main concern seemed to be an inability to study.

And those things seem different only because you are considering them in a reasonable sense. I've had residents where I work pissed off at me for telling them to keep it down because they were 'only talking on their phone' even though they were practically shouting into the thing and had the volume up so high I could hear the person on the other end clearly while I was three floors below. Then there are the people who call to complain about their neighbour having a massive crazy party that turned out to be three people hanging out chatting on their patio. And the guy who chewed my ear off about how he could have been shot or stabbed because I was not there to stop two fifteen year old girls from giggling and making fun of him while he played tennis.

As you could imagine my experience tells me that sometimes people are overly sensitive and exaggerate. Particularly the ones that say extreme things like they are considering beating people with a bat. Iam here may not be one of these people but it is something to consider because if he is being overly sensitive he is only going to piss a bunch of people off by taking everyone's advice here.


edit: Iamverysmart: Since the security/RAs have apparently thought the noise from outside of your neighbour's room is not all that loud it may also be that their speakers are right next to your shared wall and so it sounds louder in your room. This happened to a resident at my work. Everyone who showed up when she complained that her neighbour's tv was too loud said they could not hear it. She felt like everyone was treating her like she was crazy. It turned out that the neighbour had dolby surround sound speakers mounted on their shared wall. If something like this is the case then maybe all they have to do is move their speakers.

 

[SticksandStones]

They move into a dorm because they want to. But are not so clueless to think that students are going to be quiet at 11am and disturb no one.

Several universities have policies such that you HAVE to live in the dorms if you're under a certain age.

 

[Moonbear]

Don't move in the dorms if you plan on studying all the time. Only an IDIOT moves into the dorms/residences and plans on studying. There are some dorms with strict rules, but if you are not in that one, you ARE screwed.

This has been happening for years. You're not going to change this lifestyle overnight. Get real. Should never have gone into the dorms.

Dorms are SUPPOSED to be for studying. The off-campus apartments are the place for the party crowd to go. Dorms are owned by the university, and therefore have an expectation that they should be a place where people can study. That is why there are staff hired to handle such problems.

I lived in dorms and worked in dorms, and the first hall meeting of the year was to determine when quiet hours began for the night and how long they lasted. Almost every year, there was a pretty good consensus that 11 PM (sometimes 11:30 PM) until 7:30 AM was when the dorm should be quiet for sleeping (or staying up late studying). Off-campus housing was notorious for noise complaints, because that's where everyone went if they wanted to party with nobody supervising (most of the slumlords renting to students couldn't care less, because they lived nowhere near that area of town).

Then again, we didn't really have too many issues in our dorms. The upperclassmen pretty much made it clear to freshmen to shut the f*** up if they were getting too loud. I think in all my time in the dorms, there was only one pair of roommates who were a persistent disruption, but nobody ended up having to move them to new housing since their parents took care of them when they ended up on academic probation their first semester. Amazing how a few Fs will straighten out a student's attitude about partying.

 

[DaveC426913]

OK, so there seems to be a general consensus that there are officials who are responsible for maintaining order in dorms.

So why has this thread gone on for three pages?

 

[Huckleberry]

I'm glad I can sleep through an earthquake and wake up when someone calls my name. Yell and scream all you want in the next room and I'll sleep like a baby. Open the door and I'm up in a flash. I've adapted to sleeping with loud noises being in the military and working nights most of my life.

Keep going to the next level of authority to get something done. If that doesn't work then make a friend who they will listen to. If all else fails move or adapt.

The last year of my enlistment I was living off base in an apartment building. The neighbors played their music loud all night many times. It didn't bother me. At the end of my enlistment I was leaving the apartment and I had a bunch of food and alcohol I didn't want to take with me so I knocked on the door and offered them whatever they wanted. They said that if they knew they had such cool neighbors they wouldn't have played their music so loud. As far as I know none of my roomates asked them to keep it down.

 

[rootX]

Last term, I was living in an upper year students dorm. It was very hard to find people in the halls. They were always quiet. Earlier, I lived in a freshmen dorm. People would party only once a two-week/month. They would lower the noise after 11 PM though. However, my school is known as one of the worst party schools.