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This semester, three other guys and I decided that we didn't want to continue in the dorms and got an apartment together. I've known one of these guys since I was 13, I've been hanging out with another throughout high school and we roomed together last year on campus, and the third was an acquintance of mine in high school and is friends with the other two. The guy I roomed with last year I am very comfortable with -- he's pretty much a cool guy all around. The other two have a different outlook than I do so we all agreed it would be important to talk some things through before we actually signed a lease.
I personally am not a wild partier. By wild party I mean a group of people cranking up the stereo, getting sick-drunk with the beer bong, and letting people that no one really knows join in on the fun. We all made sure everyone was committed to being college students first, but these two in particular (with support from my former roomate) also wanted to make sure everyone was cool with some wild partying. I figured that it is cool to let loose once in a while and that maybe I would acquire a taste for a bit of partying. We talked it through and we thought that one big party a month seemed fair.
Within a couple of months, our house/apartment had acquired a reputation as a place where there were always parties. I have classes 6 days a week and I also have been working about a 60-hour week up until November. I was also in a long-term relationship at the time, so a lot of weekends I spent over at my girlfriend's apartment just to get out of the way. One thing that always made me particularly worried was that for a while our apartment became a place where high school students from the school we went to could come and get drunk freely.
Times change, my work schedule is still full-time, but it's cut back a bit and I'm no longer in my relationship. Meanwhile things here are just as wild as ever. Though I have made half-hearted attempts to bring up my complaints about the atmosphere in my apartment on weekends, this past week was the first time I really laid out my frustration that the agreement we made before we moved in is not being fallowed. I don't think it's had any effect. Of the other three, only my roomate is somewhat on my side; he enjoys the parties but he at least seems to have a soul and realizes that I'm being screwed. I have to get up early on Saturday mornings to go to class -- a fact that the roomates are familiar with -- and the parties are LOUD here often until 4 or 5 AM. What the hell can I do about this?
This semester, three other guys and I decided that we didn't want to continue in the dorms and got an apartment together. I've known one of these guys since I was 13, I've been hanging out with another throughout high school and we roomed together last year on campus, and the third was an acquintance of mine in high school and is friends with the other two. The guy I roomed with last year I am very comfortable with -- he's pretty much a cool guy all around. The other two have a different outlook than I do so we all agreed it would be important to talk some things through before we actually signed a lease.
I personally am not a wild partier. By wild party I mean a group of people cranking up the stereo, getting sick-drunk with the beer bong, and letting people that no one really knows join in on the fun. We all made sure everyone was committed to being college students first, but these two in particular (with support from my former roomate) also wanted to make sure everyone was cool with some wild partying. I figured that it is cool to let loose once in a while and that maybe I would acquire a taste for a bit of partying. We talked it through and we thought that one big party a month seemed fair.
Within a couple of months, our house/apartment had acquired a reputation as a place where there were always parties. I have classes 6 days a week and I also have been working about a 60-hour week up until November. I was also in a long-term relationship at the time, so a lot of weekends I spent over at my girlfriend's apartment just to get out of the way. One thing that always made me particularly worried was that for a while our apartment became a place where high school students from the school we went to could come and get drunk freely.
Times change, my work schedule is still full-time, but it's cut back a bit and I'm no longer in my relationship. Meanwhile things here are just as wild as ever. Though I have made half-hearted attempts to bring up my complaints about the atmosphere in my apartment on weekends, this past week was the first time I really laid out my frustration that the agreement we made before we moved in is not being fallowed. I don't think it's had any effect. Of the other three, only my roomate is somewhat on my side; he enjoys the parties but he at least seems to have a soul and realizes that I'm being screwed. I have to get up early on Saturday mornings to go to class -- a fact that the roomates are familiar with -- and the parties are LOUD here often until 4 or 5 AM. What the hell can I do about this?
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