is it too much to ask...

[Jen]

... to get some flaming sleep around here??

i have been up since 6 friday morning, i am up again at half 7 this morning for yards and i want to do is get some flaming sleep. i understand that they are away from home for the first time and like to have a party every now and again but this is the second time this week i have been awake at this time. i wouldnt mind but i am missing lectures as a result of sheer exhaustion which means i am getting behind on coursework and assignments etc.

yards has knackered me out and i have it all again tomorrow as anybody not in college cant (the large majority - as in almost all of the students) so therefore i have to help out with yards even though im not even supposed to be in college but as i cant get home i have to do yards. it is no joke being outside in the snow from 7am to 4pm, freezing cold and soaked through to the skin from the bleeding snow melting as it lands on me but they just dont seem to understand that. B was saying that he has been on pigs since 6am but he gets the whole weekend to sleep and i dont. if i dont get enough sleep then i get extremely ill - ranging from throwin up for days on end to my iron levels dropping extremely low and not being able to drag myself from my bed for sometimes up to weeks.

it is making seriously consider not living in at college which although would be really expensive travelling in every day i might get some sleep and then not have them going on at me for being grumpy.

im so sick of it, i even took my book and went for a cig and sat in the cig shelter for an hour getting some peace and quiet just because it was the only way i could, but then they all followed me just in case i got lonely.

i am that frustrated that i actually keep crying and there is no signs of them letting up either. sorry for the rant but i just needed to get it off my chest.

[spotti]

Oh Jen! That sounds horrid...are they first years by any chance? If so then they'll soon settle down when they get there first assignment and/or yard duties or whatever. It' there first week so they're bound to be excitable but they will settle down, I promise

At uni I had a similar issue with noisy neighbours, but after the first 2/3 weeks the newbies settled down and gave me some only for the 2nd/3rd years to make even more noise!!!!

Is there any way of explaining to the noisy people that you need your sleep and you need some quiet so you can do your work. Tell them that if they want to party - GO OUT!

(as you can tell I really don't tolerate noisy people when I'm trying to work!)

[Blonde Donkey]

Does college not have accommodation off campus??
Or could you move off campus with a few friends. You could ask some of the HE students if they have a room to spare??
Failing that. Rat on them for underage drinking (if they are underage) or invest in some decent earplugs
Feel sorry for you darl. I hate noise when i'm working unless it is decent music.

[Jen]

quick update. finally got to sleep at about 5am, woke up 5 mins after i was supposed to be on yards, i still had saxon to do and needed something to eat. got down to the yard and hannah bless her had done saxon for me so that was one less worry. spent all this morning trying not to fall asleep on my feet.

unfortunately they should know better as half of them have early duties too whether its on the farm or yards but if you explain why you want them to be quiet they just laugh at you or make sarcastic comments. the girls are great about it its mainly the lads that just get louder and louder to see how far they can push me. if i ring the wardens they shut up for about 10 maybe 15 mins before being louder than they were before so even that doesnt work!!!!!!!

sadly cassie they arent in their first week, it is now the second term of their first year.

lucy, there isnt any spaces in houses of campus or i would try and move into one.

[fimacg]

I feel for you I really do, when I get really tired I get really frustrated end up in tears and when at uni I ended loosing my rag which just seems to fuel on those making the noise more times than I can count. In the end I fell out will all but one of my flat mates, the only other postgrad in the flat, I ended up moving out and in with my OH...

[spotti]

Oh yeah lol. I completely forgot we'd broken up for christmas lol!!! It would seem all this revision is making me even more mad