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Noise Grade: C
Noise Grade: C
South Hall is located on south campus, overlooking South Quad from the back. South is the largest dorm on campus with an occupancy of 240 and is a popular choice for Conservatory students due to its proximity to the Conservatory. The building is made up of singles, divided doubles, and quads and has a vast lounge space on the first floor as well as dance studios and a gym in the basement.
South has received mixed reviews on noise from the people I talked to about it. On one hand, multiple say South is much more forgiving than many of the larger north camus dorms. On the other hand, I heard horror stories about sound leakage and loud weekend nights.
Divided doubles pose the same problem they do in East in that they prevent privacy far less effectively than people think they do. That being said, this was not a chief complaint: South is insulated in a way that allows noise to travel clearly between floors and thus partying, sex, and conversations can be heard when present in a lot of rooms. I have personally experienced this sound even leaking into one of the dance studios. Furthermore, people are often loud and disrespectful of quiet hours in their rooms despite South having less of a strict party culture than other dorms. Just like East and North, the quads in South tend to be the noisiest rooms.
"I liked living in South a lot because of the location but the living in South itself was really not great and incredibly uncomfortable at times. The building is not well maintained and noise leaks between the rooms like crazy. People are also just straight up loud and pratice their electric guitars in their rooms and stuff like that, it's not great. Still, I'd take it over East or North - they blow up on the weekends.
"I liked living in South a lot because of the location but the living in South itself was really not great and incredibly uncomfortable at times. The building is not well maintained and noise leaks between the rooms like crazy. People are also just straight up loud and pratice their electric guitars in their rooms and stuff like that, it's not great. Still, I'd take it over East or North - they blow up on the weekends.
"South is wild. One minute you're enjoying peace in your room and the next you're hearing loud sex at two in the afternoon."
"South is wild. One minute you're enjoying peace in your room and the next you're hearing loud sex at two in the afternoon."
If you're trying to avoid noise:
If you're trying to avoid noise:
- Choose a single.
- Discuss the wall issue with your neighbor if you are in a divided double and come to agreements as to how you might handle the leakage of sound.
- Live closer to the center of the building to avoid being near noisy quads.
- Don't be afraid to talk to your RA about excessive noise late at night.
- Respect quiet hours and talk to your neighbors about doing the same.
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