Author Topic: I'm having serious problems with my dorm room (things get complicated)  (Read 11599 times)

Congrats on being the kid everyone else on the floor hates.

You're a disaster and it seems to be a deeper problem than sleep deprivation.

that'd be about as uncomfortable as if I just let the fans go, plus I wouldn't be able to hear the alarm in the morning

did you even try using ear plugs?

soundproof headphones plugged into your alarm

play white noise over the headphones too, or brown noise, might help you sleep more soundly

hire an old mexican lady to come into your dorm every morning and wake you up.

soundproof headphones plugged into your alarm
i did this my entire freshman year, worst case they fall out and you have the alarm play over both headphones and speaker, 0% miss rate

and honestly? as annoying as your situation sounds, you're not alone and i almost feel like i had worse. Yeah your roommate brings friends home (is that really that much of an issue? at least you haven't been loveiled yet..? it's his room too) and plays music... it doesn't sound like he's personally keeping you up all night (for reference, my roommate kept the overhead light on until 3 or 4 am every night and played BDO, screaming in chinese all night)... so... idk what to tell you dude. best you can do is confront him about your concerns, because from my understanding you haven't talked to him about it at all and have just posted about it here (maybe i'm wrong here, if i am then shrug. sometimes you gotta deal with these things).

On other fronts, I feel like your best move is to drop some cash on a cheap notebook laptop and just get work done at libraries. i don't know what your major is but generally they can handle most school assignments (my friend has gotten through 3 years of a cs major on a $130 laptop that can't even run hearthstone), and yes, you won't have access to your desktop at all times but worst case you can set up remote desktop or something.

and finally in regards to A/C... remember that you're in an entire building of people who are likely suffering just as much as you. yes, there may be other buildings with AC, but unfortunately that's the way life is sometimes, and people can't accommodate your every whim because believe it or not there are a bunch of other people who would gladly switch buildings as well. It just doesn't make sense to me to complain that you're not being switched when i'm sure there are at least 100 other people who would want to.

and ninja: i realize this is coming off as passive aggressive as forget but we had someone on my floor in freshman year that complained about a lot of things like this so... it's a bit of a pet peeve

(for reference, my roommate kept the overhead light on until 3 or 4 am every night and played BDO, screaming in chinese all night)

Chinese gold farmer?

college sophomore, with a double major, so yes I do have that much work
how did you make it through freshman year lol

Chinese gold farmer?
he would go fishing for hours at a time and every time he got a "perfect" or what the forget ever (i assume its timing based) he would yell "perfect!!" so that all his friends would know that he caught that fish especially well

how did you make it through freshman year lol
probably lottery'd a good room lol

how did you make it through freshman year lol

I had a room with air conditioning

which majors?
normally if it's engineering then colleges are a bit quicker at trying to reduce impacts to studying

mechanical engineering and music composition

this is the semester I take thermo
« Last Edit: September 03, 2017, 11:21:02 PM by Tactical Nuke »

tbh at this point it just seems like you'll end up with the entire building annoyed at you for complaining
just suck it up and use other tools to compensate and make life easier

tbh at this point it just seems like you'll end up with the entire building annoyed at you for complaining

what, do you think I'm stomping around my dorm hall, knocking on doors and yelling at people that I hate the whole building?

I feel obliged to bring up that comic

what, do you think I'm stomping around my dorm hall, knocking on doors and yelling at people that I hate the whole building?

I feel obliged to bring up that comic
rofl it just sounds like you're giving everyone a hard time for something it seems that other people can handle (relatively) fine

I've only talked to like a few people about this, I don't know what you're going on about

« Last Edit: September 03, 2017, 11:41:06 PM by torin² »