Living in Student Housing

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I am so sorry you are faced with all of these sources of stress...all of these can wreck your abilirty to function, and I speak from personal experience when I say this. What has helped for myself and a few other people in regards to the noise is simply to get out of the house as much as possible. Bring your work to a quiet study area in the library...that way you can focus, relax, and get everything done without having to worry about the noise level.

As for the landlord dropping by unexpectantly, it has also caused problems for myself as I hate being interruped and having to answer questions at times when I am not in the mood. It is incredibly stressful and I can easily understand your frustration there. It's something you unfortunately have to deal with though, and if I had a way around it, I would totally share it with you. In my case, I just answered his questions, no matter how stressed I was, but often it just made me more stressed because I had to deal with unexpected interaction.

My college years were a living hell. I don't recall noise being a major factor in this, just the interaction with other students and worse still the other residents of my student house. A Single room might have helped some but the simple fact is that despite being intellectually gifted, I lacked the social/emotional maturity necessary to leave home.

Student housing DELIBERATELY tries to match people up with oddballs who will challenge them.

It has an interesting motivation (to get you out of your comfort zone), but is ill conceived. For example, if you are Christian, you'll get anyone but a Christian as a roommate.

This might be good for a social mixer or a school project, but someone you LIVE with? No.

So many first-year students at my college were changing room assignments within the first 30 days of school starting when they found new roommates they'd be more compatible with.

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