I hate my dorm

[guanin]

Okay, I hate dorms in general. There's always something extremely annoying about them. Roommates you can't get along with, crappy food, people singing in the hallways, maintenance hammering for two hours on the floor above me when I'm supposed to be sleeping, fire drills at seven in the morning when I went to bed at four and am an insomniac and can't fall back to sleep after I've been forced outside in the cold for half an hour. I rolled around in bed for at least three hours before I finally fell asleep. I don't think I slept five hours, total. I have to write an essay, write fic because I didn't write any yesterday and I feel like shit about it (and I will get withdrawal if I don't get to it soon, but then again I already feel like shit). My head keeps drooping, my thoughts are all scattered, and all I want to do is sleep, but my body will not. I need to wait till nighttime until there's any chance that I'll get any proper sleep. And then of course the fire alarm is going to go off at 9:30 tomorrow morning, because never mind that they just checked it today, they will do it again, and then the cleaning lady opens my very noisy door (not that opening a silent door wouldn't wake me up), to take out the trash. I'm having trouble formulating sentences. How am I supposed to work this way? Why do people keep assuming that everyone wakes up early? And it's not just the usual people, either. Everyone I've met in this building (first year undergrads( are surprised that I go to bed so late and don't go down to breakfast at eight in the morning. Since when is going to bed early the normal thing for a college student? Sure, I know people back home who love taking morning classes, though even they admit that it's crazy because they sleep past noon on the weekends, but there's always an equal amount (including me), who refuse and only take afternoon classes as much as we can help it. Are there just not enough afternoon classes here or what? An why am I having so much culture clash four months after getting here?

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[visiblemarket.livejournal.com]

I love taking morning classes because that gives me the whole afternoon off for fic writing napping life studying and, potentially, internships. But I too hate waking up early in the morning; it's just one of those sacrifices I'm willing to make. But yeah, living in dorms is one of those things that seem fantastic for the first couple of weeks and then the novelty wears off and oh my god you're surrounded by annoying people and ancient buildings and probably asbestos and it really, really sucks.

As to why the culture clash now? I'm going to guess it's because you went home for break.

[guanin.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I get that some people would rather have the day off to do stuff. I'd rather have the nights off because my productivity goes way up. Sunlight bugs me. Yes, I'm a vampire. The secret's out. I hunt down the living for breakfast. Bwahahaha! God, I need to sleep.

Dorms are great in the sense that they're often cheap (even if you don't feel like you're getting enough value for your money). Considering the location, I'm getting some great rates.

What I don't get is why other students (though oddly enough, just the undergrads here, not the other graduate students at my uni), look at me weird when I tell them I go to bed late. I just told a guy today that I needed to get back to bed because I went to bed at four and he looked surprised. Why would that be surprising?

Actually, I missed some of the UK stuff when I was back home. I didn't want to leave, but neither was I regretting it as much as other times. The cukture clash I'm refering is really the sleeping thing and the TV license that I just discovered yesterday and am having major issues with.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_ame_no_chikara/]

How weird... o-o Where do you go to college? It's definitely not that way at my school and I even live in first-year undergrad housing (regardless of being a sophomore). Most people go to bed around 2-3am, 12 at the earliest. Waking up happens before 10 am only if forced. Noise can't really be heard on the hallway until 3 pm. On the weekends, people stay up even later. Weird stuff =/ I love our schedule here though.

[tju-tju-tju-tju.livejournal.com]

I've seriously never heard of so many college students who like to get up early. What the fuck? That makes no earthly sense.

[guanin.livejournal.com]

London. And it's not like you don't see people in the hallway at the wee hours of the morning, but they look at me weird when I tell them my sleeping schedule. At my dorm in Chicago, there was an even mix between people who got up late and early for class. The absolute earlier class I've taken was at 9:35 and I hated getting up that early. On the other hand, I really liked the class, which is why I did it. But I would not do it for an eight o'clock class.

[guanin.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure if they like to get up early or if it's the schedule that doesn't let them avoid it. Still, it's odd.

[lotus0kid.livejournal.com]

Ugh, sorry to hear things aren't working out as well as they could be. I remember when I was in Hull, for like a week they were tearing up the concrete walkway in front of the townhouse-ish place I was staying in. Yeah, jackhammers at 8 in the morning? Not fun. Maybe you can get some earplugs, so the morning activity doesn't wake you up?

[guanin.livejournal.com]

Jackhammers woke me up last week, though thankfully it was only one day. They're tearing up the streets all over the place to replace the old, Victorian pipelines. I've wondering about earplugs, but my ears hurt if I keep my headphones in for too long. Plus, I sleep on my side and seriously bury my head on the pillow. The tip of my ear hurts sometimes.

[g0shawk.livejournal.com]

Ergh, I'm with you in the dorm hate. There's some things I really love about dorms, but fire drills, maintenance, and in our case ppl shouting profanity in the hallways I could definitely do without.

That's so weird about the morning stuff! I think most people here go to sleep late and sleep in whenever possible...

*hugs*

[guanin.livejournal.com]

I don't hear profanity coming from the hallways. I hear it from the street. For some reason, past a certain hour, people feel the need to shout, sing, chant, have screaming contests, insult each other, call to people in the building, and pretty much say anything possible in really loud voices. I suspect drunkenness considering the hour and that there are pubs everywhere, though they're closed by the time most of the shouting happens, leaving people free to roam and annoy. Argh!

I know! Why am I expected to be up by ten am. OH, and the weekend breakfast hour kills me. It's "late" at 11. *head desk". I get it that it's late by regular standards, but it's not like people would object to having breakfast for lunch if they put it on later. And it only lasts an hour, so I can never catch it, and apparently the breakfast here is actually good, unlike the slop they make for dinner.

*hugs back*

[g0shawk.livejournal.com]

Geez. *shakes head* I don't understand...

Wow, you only get an hour? That seems a little ridiculous.