Isolation In College Students

Everyone needs sleep. Eight hours a day of relaxing sleep. It’s a requirement for most. ASU advises students to get eight hours of sleep a night. College students seem to defy nature by sleeping as little as possible. Many activities seem more important to college students than sleep, whether the activity is a party or a study session, staying awake always seems to take priority over sleep. Most of the time college students have the option to sleep but they consciously refuse.
The option to sleep are unavailable to me. I live in Rosewood hall. The noise from the bordering Rural Road is the bane of my existence. The road doesn’t want me to be healthy and get the correct amount of sleep that my body needs. The noise isolation is as effective as a condom with a quarter sized hole punched through both ends. Why would my room be quiet at night anyways? I know for sure the problem …show more content…
Cars make noise, more cars means more noise. I know Tempe is a vibrant city where everyone is always on the move. Mondays in Tempe have more action than Saturdays in Wichita, Kansas. The amount of noise that comes from Rural Road is exceptional.
When I toured the dorms at Barrett I asked the tour guide how the noise isolation was, he said excellent. That was a lie. It’s terrible. This might not be a dealbreaker for most. Some people were lucky enough to get a dorm that doesn’t border one of the four campus bordering roads. The worst noises that residents of the inner dorms in Barrett hear are students talking, playing volleyball, or riding their longboards. Noise isolation isn’t a big deal in these situations. I could see what American Campus Communities was thinking when building paper thin walls: it’s cheaper. They were smart enough to know that no one will be able to tell the difference between cheaply made walls and quality walls until they actually live in the