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The "Ask a Durham Student" Thread :)

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Wow, I would have engaged in homicide if I were you.

I might be a bit less resentful if they had at least invited me to their late-night drunken techno orgy. :frown:

Durham University

Durham

Reply 221

LastGrape

my upstairs neighbours seem to make loads of noise just asking, since complaining I've added one on messenger and i think that's now keeping me awake.

I asked her if someone dropped a bed when one of the bangs happened... no just her calculator!

Reply 222

generic hybrid

Apparently both the flat upstairs and the flat downstairs have decided to have parties tonight. Thanks guys. I am hoping eventually I will be able to whinge myself to sleep.

LastGrape, maybe it was an ENIAC-era calculator?

Reply 223

dobbs

I remember the most annoying thing about the parties above my room last year was that they were incapable of listening to a whole song before moving to the next one.

You'd get half of a song then they'd clearly got bored of that one so would switch to another one. 30 seconds in, the next one comes on, ARGHHHH!!!! It just disrupts your thinking so much, like psychological torture! :mad:

Reply 224

LastGrape

they weren't just doing physcology and secretly using you for their project?

generic, I got in trouble for asking if it was as big as her laptop (which is on the more elderly side)

Reply 225

generic hybrid

Two and a half hours

TWO AND A HALF HOURS

The sound of their speakers has become the drumbeat of hell's taskmaster as the audial demons rip my nerves to shreds. I am driven to distraction. I weep and scream obscenities at the ceiling and still it continues.

I go upstairs and bang on the door and they do not hear me until I press the doorbell down for half a minute. But it is futile because they are too drunk to process my words and turn the volume knob down.

Sometimes the eternal rhythm of damnation stops and I wonder if salvation has come. Will they let me sleep at last? But no, they are only checking over the playlist and deciding if they should next play the best of Slayer or Gabber Anthems 2007.

THOOM THOOM THOOM THOOM THOOM THOOM THOOM THOOM THOOM THOOM THOOM THOOM THOOM

Each beat is like a hammer driving a red hot nail into my skull. Every random bang they make as they stumble drunkenly from room to room is like another crack of the whip on the back of my neck. Neither hot water bottle nor tea can soothe me into a tortured sleep. There is no comfort. There is no rest. There is no life. There is only my neighbours' sound system.

Reply 226

Piggsil

I empathise totally. I tried going to bed early last night, as I knew I had to get up today for the Castle freshers' fair. Was all going swimmingly. 11.30pm and I was drifting nicely off to sleep when...BLEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHH!
Someone on my floor has a massive vom into the toilet, which is just outside my room. :puke:

This carried on about 20 times in the next 2 hours...vom...flush...vom...flush...and I heard everything. Let me tell you, the sound of vomiting doesn't lull you to sleep.
Then people started to come back from Hound. So it was like 3am by the time I got to sleep. And I'm ill. :frown:

Reply 227

*River

I start getting annoyed after midnight. Luckily for me, I'm on the top floor and the flat below me doesn't have an freshers' in it. BUT, my flatmatmes themselves can make a real racket when they get back from going out, or when they bring platoons of fellow Butler freshers' back to the flat late when drunk out of their minds. I expect it'll calm down a bit as freshers' draws to a close, but it really is incredibly annoying when you're really tired and have a 9am lecture in the morning (and it's not like Butler is on the doorstep of Elvet Riverside...).

If it's causing a real problem, it's probably best to go and talk to the human sources of noise during the day (although probably not before lunch time) about it, and if that doesn't work, try your procter. Ours is enourmously helpful with everything :smile:

Reply 228

bravenewcentury

Invest in some earplugs, people- I think I'd have failed first year without them, my corridor were bastards for noise (kicking a football against everyone's doors at 3am- nice). Go and confront people when it's really bad, if they don't listen then call the porter, and if they don't get the message after a few nights then go to your college tutor/student support person and get college to sort them out.

You'd have thought people might have learned not to be anti-social ******s by the age of 18, but sometimes they still need it spelled out that loud music in communal living areas is a bad thing...

Reply 229

Itchynscratchy

perhaps the best reason for living in an all finalist block.

Although sometimes here the silence is deafening. Can't have it all ways I suppose.

Reply 230

dobbs

bravenewcentury

You'd have thought people might have learned not to be anti-social ******s by the age of 18, but sometimes they still need it spelled out that loud music in communal living areas is a bad thing...

I agree completely, I hate the fact that students are coming to Durham University who simply don't understand the notion of courtesy. It's so rude and can really disrupt the lives of others :frown:

At least in Trevs we have "Noiseline" which is a phone number you can call at night if there is too much noise going on and the JCR President/Vice President will come and tell them to shut up or risk being fined. Still, it's not a perfect system unfortunately.

Reply 231

generic hybrid

Becca, D:! That sounds worse than the loud music. Eurgh.

I got in touch with my proctor today and asked if he could do something about it. I felt a bit bad asking him though as it is actually his flat making the noise. :redface:

Oh well. Either they turn it down or he pays for a nice set of earplugs.

Reply 232

Piggsil

It turns out the person being ill had food poisoning so it's not like it's because he was drunk or anything, so i have more sympathy now. He was sick a LOT though. I didn't know someone could have so much stuff inside them!
My block is all finalists, and I guess it's freshers' week atm, vbut I was ill when i arrived at Durham so it's not the best place to recover really. :frown:

I think I'll invest in some earplugs, I know a few people who already have!

Reply 233

bobbles_lass

hoping this is the right place for this question.
Self Catering at Durham - am I right in thinking the only self catering choices in Durham City are either Josephine Butler or St Cuthbert's Society?
Thankies!

Reply 234

bravenewcentury

bobbles_lass

Pretty much- I think there's a couple of other colleges with a small possibility of self catering (Grey has a few self caterers), but Butler and Cuths are the only ones offering a substantial amount of self catering accommodation.

Reply 235

*River

Random question I know, but is it possible to change college once you're here? If so, how does one go about making enquiries, and to whom?

Reply 236

dobbs

*River

Random question I know, but is it possible to change college once you're here? If so, how does one go about making enquiries, and to whom?

You need to speak firstly to your College Senior Tutor and discuss with him/her the problems you're having with your college. S/he will probably ask you to consider other options (i.e. if you're having problems with people who live in your corridor then they might try to move you to a different corridor, etc.) - if it's something that can't be solved then I'm not sure what they will do from then, but I'd guess it would be a case of them finding out which colleges have spaces and letting you know.

Pikaboo on this forum moved from Chads/Johns (can't remember which) to Trevelyan (good choice!) so she will know about the actual process :smile:

Reply 237

loggins

*River

Random question I know, but is it possible to change college once you're here? If so, how does one go about making enquiries, and to whom?

Unless you have a very good excuse then you probably won't be allowed, but it's worth a try I guess.

Reply 238

Itchynscratchy

loggins

Unless you have a very good excuse then you probably won't be allowed, but it's worth a try I guess.

I don't think you need all that good an excuse, I know a guy who transfered from Mildert to Grey so that he could live in the same block as his girlfriend

Reply 239

loggins

Itchynscratchy

I don't think you need all that good an excuse, I know a guy who transfered from Mildert to Grey so that he could live in the same block as his girlfriend

Hmm, I'd say that's a decent excuse.

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