Find something else to do. You degenerate little fuckshits are a disgrace to our already pathetic generation. Seriously, there are woods nearby to go do this shit in. Why are you baking your brains out in the goddamn room where people have called the cops on you twice already? Do you not realize that they put us on "The List" after the first time you got in trouble?
Apologizing in advance doesn't get me back those lost hours of sleep, nor does it safeguard your dignity. You may receive the blessing of blackouts, but I see you all with sober eyes. I see your stupidity with eyes clearer than the vodka you pump down your stomachs every third night. I remember the shit that goes down.
I fell asleep with the words "Beer pong" and "Captain Morgan" in my ears. I awoke a few hours later to the sounds of our already ridiculously fractious social network breaking asunder. A thunderstorm of drunken rants, freakouts, and hurt feelings swept through here last night, the likes of which I have never seen. Granted, I am inexperienced in these matters, but if this is what it's like when you don't have class the next day during nice weather, what will winter be like?
No, seriously, what will it be like? When there's nothing to do, you will turn to the bottle, the blunt, and the bong. We'll all be stir-crazy, sick of each other, and restless. If this madness can happen when the weather's still nice, I shudder to think what will happen in the coming months.
But I shudder with laughter. Mad, unrestrained laughter. Behold the one true Divine Comedy; the self-destruction of Tomorrow's Leaders! The setup will go on and on, and my guts shall bleed with the chuckles as I anticipate the grotesque punchline.
Then someone will die. Though I've felt like killing some of you in the delerious haze of sleeplessness, it will not be me who puts an end to that poor soul's life. It seems like half of you have drunk yourselves nearly to alcohol poisoning; I have no reason to believe that you will stop or begin to regulate yourselves. Someone will die.
And no one will laugh. In retrospect, I will think, it wasn't a very funny joke at all.
Oh well.
Quote from: Cainad on October 10, 2008, 12:15:20 AM
Find something else to do. You degenerate little fuckshits are a disgrace to our already pathetic generation. Seriously, there are woods nearby to go do this shit in. Why are you baking your brains out in the goddamn room where people have called the cops on you twice already? Do you not realize that they put us on "The List" after the first time you got in trouble?
Apologizing in advance doesn't get me back those lost hours of sleep, nor does it safeguard your dignity. You may receive the blessing of blackouts, but I see you all with sober eyes. I see your stupidity with eyes clearer than the vodka you pump down your stomachs every third night. I remember the shit that goes down.
I fell asleep with the words "Beer pong" and "Captain Morgan" in my ears. I awoke a few hours later to the sounds of our already ridiculously fractious social network breaking asunder. A thunderstorm of drunken rants, freakouts, and hurt feelings swept through here last night, the likes of which I have never seen. Granted, I am inexperienced in these matters, but if this is what it's like when you don't have class the next day during nice weather, what will winter be like?
No, seriously, what will it be like? When there's nothing to do, you will turn to the bottle, the blunt, and the bong. We'll all be stir-crazy, sick of each other, and restless. If this madness can happen when the weather's still nice, I shudder to think what will happen in the coming months.
But I shudder with laughter. Mad, unrestrained laughter. Behold the one true Divine Comedy; the self-destruction of Tomorrow's Leaders! The setup will go on and on, and my guts shall bleed with the chuckles as I anticipate the grotesque punchline.
Then someone will die. Though I've felt like killing some of you in the delerious haze of sleeplessness, it will not be me who puts an end to that poor soul's life. It seems like half of you have drunk yourselves nearly to alcohol poisoning; I have no reason to believe that you will stop or begin to regulate yourselves. Someone will die.
And no one will laugh. In retrospect, I will think, it wasn't a very funny joke at all.
Oh well.
:mittens:
Wallpaper your dorm's hallways with this. (anonymously, of course.) 4 AM on Tues/Wed mornings tends to work.
Quote from: GA on October 10, 2008, 02:13:40 AM
:mittens:
Wallpaper your dorm's hallways with this. (anonymously, of course.) 4 AM on Tues/Wed mornings tends to work.
Nobody likes passive/agressive pansies. I say he needs to find a bullhorn and let everyone know how he feels.
And besides, I'm the one who complains about sleep loss the most. They'd know it was me.
Quote from: Iason Ouabache on October 10, 2008, 02:15:36 AM
Quote from: GA on October 10, 2008, 02:13:40 AM
:mittens:
Wallpaper your dorm's hallways with this. (anonymously, of course.) 4 AM on Tues/Wed mornings tends to work.
Nobody likes passive/agressive pansies. I say he needs to find a bullhorn and let everyone know how he feels.
(http://i209.photobucket.com/albums/bb163/wompcabal/forum/titcm.gif)
Also, he needs to wear long whit robes, unkemp (!) his hair and spread ashes on his face while delivering this monologue at the top of his voice directly into the faces of the people he is addressing. Whilst they are stoned out of their gourds.
Did you ever ask for a dorm re-assignment?
Quote from: Khara on October 10, 2008, 03:06:27 PM
Did you ever ask for a dorm re-assignment?
Wednesday night was EVERYWHERE. Nowhere is safe.
Quote from: Cainad on October 10, 2008, 04:00:14 PM
Quote from: Khara on October 10, 2008, 03:06:27 PM
Did you ever ask for a dorm re-assignment?
Wednesday night was EVERYWHERE. Nowhere is safe.
It may have been everywhere, but I am sure there were many who didn't have the cops called on them. You don't want to get involved in that shit on a legal level. The fact that the police have been called is only going to help you get approval to move.
Isn't this what dorms are supposed to be like?
Quote from: Hoopla on October 10, 2008, 06:56:42 PM
Isn't this what dorms are supposed to be like?
Unless you live in one of those "wellness" dorms.
Maybe I'm just a lot older, but while my dorm time was a bit insane, it was under control really fast. The people who got the cops called on them were kicked out of the dorm and or the college. There is no money back policy for tuition so thats a lot of money down the drain. There also wasn't a he/she are the REAL culprits kind of conversation, the entire block was booted, and not all of them were shitfaced and running naked through the corridors. It was a guilt by association thing. Scared the rest of the building pretty straight, for a while....
I moved into an apartment as soon as I was allowed. I figured if I was going to get in trouble I wanted to have done something to deserve it, not been a bystander to dorms gone wild!
Yeah, you need to move out soon if it's really this big of a problem, Cainad. I mean, partying is part of the undergrad deal, but partying to the point of arrest and jailtime is not. If the fuckheads you live with are headed down that path, you don't want to go down it with them by proxy.
I'm sure not every day and every night is like this, but if most are, then you should definitely seek another place to live. Student boards around campus and craigslist are good places to see a room for rent if it comes down to that...
Either way, good luck, and awesome rant. Try to keep your head and some sympathetic friends who let you crash out at their place when shit gets too heavy to be around/deal with chez toi.
REQUEST A ROOM CHANGE... or if you are in control of yourself, GTFO. or start to be a really annoying and nag on them constantly, soon enough they will make the decision for you.
or or or, adapt and stop letting it bother you. study at a library.
as long as you're getting a 4-5 hours of sleep at least, it shouldn't be too hard to handle. if you're tired a short nap does wonders... Hopefully you can get at least 3 nights a week with a full nights sleep... I think the biggest hurdle is trying not to let the fact your night was interupted mindfuck you and give you an excuse to be an idle pissed off motherfucker for the rest of the day.
I know this doesn't really fucking matter but I get at least 5 hours of sleep a night... weekends I get like 12 hours a night. Through the week, I can get through the entire day without a nap, I get tired and sometimes nap when I'm being idle. I only recently passed out in the early evening after a long day in the field only operating on 3 hours of glorious sleep. *pats self on back.
anyways. If you're in this environment because of the price, is the annoyance worth it? can you start to deal with it, without being a pissed of motherfucker? if not...
While I fully endorse napping as a means of catching up on some missed zzz's, /having/ to nap because your idiot roommates won't stfu long enough to let you sleep is definitely a different situation.
Quote from: Eve on October 11, 2008, 12:10:08 AM
While I fully endorse napping as a means of catching up on some missed zzz's, /having/ to nap because your idiot roommates won't stfu long enough to let you sleep is definitely a different situation.
right.
but why Cainaad did you put yourself in such an environment, because is was cheap right? well, maybe naps are the price you have to pay.
How much sleep on average do you actually get Cainad?
If it is cheap living, I'm sure there are ways you can work around this annoyance and still manage to get through school with good grades... MEH.
I'm not trying to be a jerk-off or anything, just hoping to help you see a different perspective that may help you get through this without the hassle of relocating...
I'd probably try to find someplace else to sleep because I would not feel comfortable sleeping while there are drunks in the house... . anyways...
IIRC, Cainad lives in a dorm; he didn't get to pick his rooming situation. He can, though, try to change it.
I had a similar problem in 2nd year, but it was people outside my window who wouldn't just fuck off and go to town that kept me up (student village, all houses and my window faced onto the 'courtyard' where everyone met up before going out). If you have the time to spare, go to the gym, if you're physically tired it'll be easier to get to sleep before your dormmates start making noise, midday naps are also a good idea, especially if you have 1 hour breaks between lectures, not much time for anything else and you only really need a half hour.
Basically I'm surrounded by rich Long Island kids who can afford to wake-n-bake every single day (and then get stoned at night), and the not-as-rich kids who mooch off of them. I know of exactly one other student who is suffering in the same way as I am; everyone else is having a grand old time. Also, this is a very new college so there aren't any mature older students to level the playing field. And I'm not kidding--not even a little bit--when I say that someone there is going to die this winter.
My options are as follows: either I get my car there and find a cheap place nearby to stay and commute from (an affordable place in the Hamptons area, HAR HAR!), or I GTFO, skip the semester, and start over again at Stony Brook.
Thanks to everyone for sympathy/advice; I've realized that I am in a toxic situation and need to get out somehow. At the moment I'm back in Connecticut for the weekend, recovering.
How long have you been there? about a month right? It should start to mellow out in a few weeks I'd say, but as was pointed out this is what most dorms are like, so you'll probably just have to get used to it, or join in being one of the crazy drunks. But I do sympathise, our dorm was trashed by drunkards the yesterday, it is fucking annoying at times.
Does this school require you to live in the dorms. I know some of them do if you are under a certain age and/or number of hours.
My apartment is cheaper than the cheapest dorms at my school.
$275/mo for 300 square feet all to myself.
Quote from: Rumckle on October 12, 2008, 02:10:31 AM
How long have you been there? about a month right? It should start to mellow out in a few weeks I'd say, but as was pointed out this is what most dorms are like, so you'll probably just have to get used to it, or join in being one of the crazy drunks. But I do sympathise, our dorm was trashed by drunkards the yesterday, it is fucking annoying at times.
Thanks, but... no. This situation is intolerable, because there is literally nowhere and no way for me to get away from the all-night parties. There are less than 300 students at this school, and I have yet to find a peer group that doesn't get stupidly drunk whenever they possibly can. The opportunity to mooch off of the available substances does not make up for miserable nights. If it was only Friday and/or Saturday nights, that would be one thing. But enough of the hard partyers (a) have Fridays off and start their weekend on Thursday night, (b) have classes late enough in the afternoon that they can sleep off their hangovers, or (c) just don't give a shit, that I can't get to sleep several nights a week.
Also, the dormitory suite is absolutely squalid. People leave trash and food all over the place, even after being told by Teh Authorities to clean the fuck up.
Quote from: Jerry_Frankster on October 12, 2008, 02:38:55 AM
Does this school require you to live in the dorms. I know some of them do if you are under a certain age and/or number of hours.
My apartment is cheaper than the cheapest dorms at my school.
$275/mo for 300 square feet all to myself.
That's what I'm looking for, but it being the Hamptons area... $800 was the cheapest I've found for a studio apartment.
Anyway, I know I've been cryassing a lot about my situation, on the boards and in IRC, and I'll try to reign it in, but this college well and truly sucks. It has attracted a degenerate crowd that I cannot get away from, and that never wants to do
anything except drink and smoke. I don't enjoy their company all that much even when I join in, so I can't win. There's no fun to be had, and believe me, I've been trying very hard.
I should be able to report good news fairly soon, since my family and I have already resolved to do something about it.
Fair enough, well good luck with sorting it out.
Of course you could always fix it the old fashioned way, with a fire arm.
what school is this, anyway?
ECH,
sees dollar signs
Quote from: East Coast Hustle on October 12, 2008, 12:28:45 PM
what school is this, anyway?
ECH,
sees dollar signs
SUNY Stony Brook Southampton, on Long Island. If you can get down here, by all means, exploit these rich fucks into oblivion. Bonus points if you can get them busted for something that mommy and daddy can't have them bailed out for.