It is 12:15 AM, and the walls of my college apartment are super thin - meaning I can not only hear everything within the apartment (and sometimes other apartment units), I can hear everything OUTSIDE the apartment as well. And right now, after midnight on Wednesday... there is a group of at least five people being REALLY LOUD. I can't see them through my window but I can tell they are very close, which means they must be having a little pow wow in the parking lot or something.

SHUT. UP. I'm not going to bed yet but I sure as hell don't want to try and fall asleep when you all are screaming and laughing around down there. DSJFLKFSJ.

Ooooh, I feel for you. Paper thin dorm walls, and my building is practically on top of a junction between two state highways. :angry:

Eek, it IS? Suck! But honestly, you can't beat East for thin walls. Last year, the guy next to me always, always had sex on Mondays at like 2 am. I don't need to KNOW that! Agh!

Dorms, eh?

You could always just turn your music WAY up. Even if they come to complain, you can coldly stare them down.

Or get earplugs.

Or start doing hard drugs.

Possibilities abound.

Throw things at them.

Failing that, open the window and shout at them.

Failing that, call the police.

I have thick walls :D
But kind of thin floors/ceilings.
So you can hear people walking around above you xD

I has no dorm yet. :p
But I do have rather thin walls, and besides that, I live about five minutes from the yearly fair that comes. So for about a week I'm plagued with the sounds of screaming people from the rides, concert loudspeakers, and general amusement park blather.

And another thing. My neighbors love to do odd things at nasty hours of the night (between twelve and five). So far we've had:

• Next door neighbors having a big party (and blocking driveways halfway down the street)
• Neighbor across from us working on his car (while slamming the garage door loudly and playing music LOUDLY from his car. Even better, it was the same song over and over).
• People standing on their doorsteps if their houses are across from or near each other and shouting their conversation to the world.
• Even nicer people standing outside talking so loudly on their cell phones you can hear everything that's being discussed. (Do they WANT us to know who left $30,000 on the front porch?!)
• Firework-whores. This isn't so bad around Independence Day and Christmas and all those major holidays, but what is the purpose of shooting them off at 2am in the middle of SEPTEMBER?!
• Weird, shady people who can't seem to find someone else's street corner to bum around on.
• Barking dogs. People. Either put your dogs in at night or tape their muzzles shut. Especially if you're partying.
  
  Those are my experiences, just being home sweet home.

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I agree with Emma . . . throw things at them. And then turn into a werewolf and eat them.

How about talking with your RA?

My hall has "quiet" hours in which no audible noise can be made or heard outside your room, and surprisingly they're being followed. This, of course, does not stop the copious amounts of intermingling during all other hours and the 10:00PM-Midnight volleyball outside every night. Occasionally you'll get your loud conversation in the middle of the hallway or the two or three rooms in the same hall with their stereo systems going in full force, but i haven't been truly bothered by anything yet. I think my headphones and loud music are helping a lot.

I am, of course, waiting for it to change but right now the most irksome noise while I'm trying to sleep comes from my roommate who has a cough at the moment.

^ I kind of wish we had that... But at the same time, I'm glad we don't. Our school doesn't have a curfew either, simply because controlling something like that would be impossible when we have over 50 apartment buildings. Plus, maybe some day we won't want to be quiet in our apartment... like when we have a party. :p

The students that live in the campus apartments are all pretty good about behaving. Maybe it's because I live in one of the smaller complexes ("phases"), made up of only three buildings, whereas the other "phases" have five or more. I think it's generally just quieter in this area. The people screaming outside are the only annoying noise that I've heard, with the exception of how the people above us have the habit of running to their rooms. :sweat:

Talking to my Peer Advisors wouldn't make a difference since they're only in charge of people in our building, not anyone else. I think someone called the campus police about the noise, though.

<< Paintball guns are your friend.

:D They make silencers for em too!