Halls can sometimes be a tough place to live in your first year. Being confined to one room can be a little claustrophobic and let’s not even get started on the food from the dining hall. What can make it even worse, however, is being stuck next to an annoying neighbour. They come in many different forms but are all part of the university experience – although it can be hard to accept this when they’re playing drum and bass music at 4 in the morning and you’re desperate for a good night’s sleep.
Here are some of the worst kinds of neighbours you might have encountered/ be currently tolerating whilst in halls…
The Drunk and Disorderly Neighbour:
This neighbour will decide it’s hilarious to drunkenly shout down the corridors in the early hours. They also enjoy banging on your door and trying to break into your room whilst slurring the words to the Baywatch theme tune after a night out at Ocean. They’re mostly harmless, but also prone to forgetting what they did, and taking offence when you shoot them daggers in the morning.
The Food Fighters:
Similar to the drunk and disorderly neighbour; these neighbours stick together to create maximum havoc in halls. Famous for redecorating the entrance to your halls with half eaten pizzas and kebabs whilst drunk; they are the most hated kind of neighbour when half of your deposit is missing by the end of the year due to their antics.
The Party Animal:
Always have people in their room? Check! Always playing loud music? Check! Making it hard for you to focus on that 3,000 word essay due in tomorrow? CHECK! They love to party but how do they have the energy to do it every single night?!
The Loud Sex Neighbour
Let’s face it, the walls in halls are paper thin and we can hear a lot of what our neighbours get up to in their rooms. One thing we don’t want to hear though is the sound of them and their current SO getting it on. Cue awkward eye contact the next morning.
The Music Fanatic
This neighbour thinks they’re Beyoncé (or Nottingham’s next London Grammar) and will belt out songs like they’ve forgotten you’re only on the other side of their wall. Neighbours of this kind may also play a musical instrument, so let’s just hope they’re really talented or they book a practice room in the music department!
The Suspicious Activity Neighbour
Responsible for dodgy smells lurking in your corridor; this neighbour will have mastered the art of covering their smoke alarm. You probably don’t want to know what’s going on in their room but the smoke coming out from under their door is more than a little worrying…
Edited by Georgina Varley
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