'Relax, it’s college': Inconsiderate roommate keeps playing loud music at 2:00 AM, student gets even by setting a louder alarm at 6:30 AM

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Ben Weiss • Writer and Editor
Sep 7, 2025 8:00 AM EDT

People often romanticize the four years they spent in college. The truth of the matter is that it's a cultural construction to think of that era as the "best four years of your life." That's not to say that college can't be that for someone or that it doesn't have the potential to be an informative time. However, we tend to idealize this chapter and gloss over some of the more difficult phenomena that accompany the collegiate experience.

One aspect of college that can be a beautiful or difficult moment is learning how to coexist with a stranger as your roommate. Some people seek out their roommates in advance and do everything in their power to ensure that the person with whom they will be living freshman year will be a decent and respectful one. Still, unless you truly know the ins and outs of that person before you start the school year, you likely will have to adjust to some unexpected elements of their lifestyle.

In this instance, the author had another student on her floor who became notorious for blasting loud music in the middle of the night. She refused to back down, regardless of how many other students protested for her to quiet down. So, the author decided to give her a taste of her own medicine. This inconsiderate person may have enjoyed staying up late and partying, but she most certainly did not enjoy having to wake up early. Keep scrolling below for the full story and for the best reactions from several members of this online community!

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  • "Loud music at 2am? I found the perfect way to shut her up"

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  • It just goes to show that sometimes, the only way to reason with inconsiderate and entitled individuals is to force them to see through your eyes. If they aren't exactly the naturally empathetic type, you have to show them that what they are doing is actively inconveniencing you and that you have the power to turn the tables on them. That's precisely what this author managed to pull off, and guess what? The loud music late at night did eventually stop as a result!

  • When I was in college, I had this neighbor in the dorms named Sarah. Sarah wasn't evil, just... loud. Every night she'd blast music at 1 or 2 a.m., usually when I had an early class. No matter how many times people asked her to turn it down, she'd laugh it off and say, "Relax, it's college."
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  • One night before a big exam, I was desperate for sleep. I knocked on her door around midnight and asked politely if she could lower the volume just a little. She smirked, said "Sure," and then cranked it even louder. I laid in bed staring at the ceiling, absolutely fuming.
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  • The next morning, after my exam, I decided I wasn't going to let it slide. Sarah was notorious for sleeping in late usually till noon and she hated mornings more than anything. So for the next week, I set my alarm for 6:30
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  • a.m. sharp, right when the hall was de d quiet, and placed my Bluetooth speaker against the thin wall we shared. I blasted the cheesiest pop songs I could find, think bubblegum boy bands from the early 2000s.
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  • The first day she stumbled out of her room, groggy and furious. By day three, she started begging me to stop. I just smiled and said, "Relax, it's college."
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  • Funny enough, after that week, her late-night concerts mysteriously stopped. She never admitted defeat, but the silence was golden.
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  • Ameliaja... This is the perfect kind of revenge petty, harmless, but effective. Nothing is more satisfying than giving someone a taste of their own medicine.
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  • MrTibee I really hate people with main character syndrome. Good on you tho!
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  • Artistic-Deal5885 • It is incredible how thoughtless other people can be. I recall being thoughtless too, in my very much younger years. I cringe when I think about coming home at 2 AM still in a party mode and cranking up the music in my townhome, and my shared wall neighbor coming over to ask me to turn down the music. She only had to do that once.
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  • I do recall my spouse inviting barflys home after a night of drinking in the tavern and turning on the stereo, waking me up to people in my home that I did not know. I served up my petty
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  • revenge by cranking the stereo at 9 AM when he was trying to sleep in after a night of drinking. How do YOU like it? Answer: he didn't. And he didn't do that again, either.
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  • Opposite-Lie-6032. In my freshman year of college, our dorm was laid out so two rooms would share one door before getting to the locked door for your dorm room. The room next to mine loved to let their door slam shut late at night all the time.
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  • As someone taking 8am classes, this was annoying. So, every night they did that, I would let my door slam shut the next morning when I left for class.
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  • LocalLiBEARian ⚫ 1 I would have used Yoko Ono or bagpipes instead but otherwise definitely approve
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  • Lesleysmith09 OP. Its basically My speaker: 1. Sarah's subwoofer: 0.
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  • Clunk234. We had neighbours like that. They would party until around 4AM most weekends and odd nights during the week. I was a shift worker on early shift (6AM start) so I was usually up at 4.30 -5AM.
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  • I was offered to do nights instead, so I'd get home for 6.30AM and blast whatever music I liked directly onto their bedroom wall and made all kind of noise vacuuming, banging around etc. The complaints from them were GLORIOUS.
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