How Do You Work with Your Roommate Late at Night?

If you’re living with additional roommates, you might find yourself on a different schedule than them. You might be a late night owl or a morning person. Usually, college housing departments try to find you a roommate who fits in with your schedule so that you won’t be doing homework when your roommate is trying to go to sleep, but sometimes that’s not always the case.

If you have a roommate who can’t tolerate the work at night, there are a few options. You can call the hall of your dormitory your new workspace (several of my friends do that) or you can work in the library and come back when the library closes (if it closes!). You might want to set up a quiet workspace that your roommate will compromise on if you must be in your room. You also might want to consider reducing the lights and using flashlights or setting up a “barrier” to avoid waking the roommate.

This is something that college roommates need to discuss before the school year starts, because if you get adjusted to a schedule that doesn’t work out with your roommate, you’ll run into trouble early on.