Being Loud Research Paper

One night in February, I invited some of my international friends to come over to my room hillside 506 to hangout have a good time and have some beers. As the night goes, at about 1 or 2 am I am not exactly sure, the music we are playing in our room was kind of loud so that people walking around in the hallway outside of my room could probably hear it easily. We didn’t realize that we were loud until there are two people doing round and knocked on our door ask me to open and turn the music down. I will just call them the RAs, they also saw that we have open beer cans on the table so they asked all of us to show our ids to them incase someone is not 21 years old at least. Unfortunately all of my roommates they are not 21 yet so the RAs took
their names and put it in the record, I personally didn’t know that I could have them who are not 21 in the area while I’m drinking with my friends since I thought it would be fine because I have the alcohol permit for the room, so that is something that I learned from the night as well. Normally if we are too loud in the room, there might be someone who will come to our room and tell us to turn it down, which we always follow all the rules and things he or she wanted us to do, so I really thought it wouldn’t be a big problem like this. The RAs asked my friends to leave the room, so they all went home. The RAs also asked one of my roommate’s friend to leave the room since she is not 21, and she left the room as well. After everybody left the room then the RAs also went back to where they came from.

After what happened that night, I have been thinking about it sometimes because I’m just afraid my roommates and friends will all get in trouble because of me not taking good care of them when I am the host. The most concern issues for me would be about my roommates, since they are not 21 so I don’t want them to have something to do with this issue at all. That is also why I couldn’t wait for the first meeting to come, so that I clarify what actually happened that night. I feel bad for them because I am the one who invited all the friends over, so I should be the one who is there to make sure we are not too loud in the apartment or will disturb our neighbors. All of my international friends are probably not so happy as well that we had to stop hanging out for the night, but they told me they understand and told me not to worry about it, so I was happy about that. I will just have to make up to them, to something for them in the near future to make sure that they have a good time and understand that they can come hang out here still, but next time we just have to be smart and not turn up the music too loud again.

I will also go talk to some of my neighbors to make sure that they are not upset with what happened and tell them that it will not happen again, we will keep it down from now on and be quiet.
Also if I want to be loud and having more fun, next time I will just go to my friend’s house, so that will solve the problem of getting in trouble or disturbing people in hillside as well. Anyways, if me and my friends are to be hanging out again in hillside I will make sure some of the things will be done. First, I will make sure people that I invite to come hang out with me are 21 and over so that I will not have to worry about them getting in trouble around us, if they are not 21 then they should be in the room where is far away from alcohol. Second, I will in charge of the speaker at all time while I’m in my apartment, so that I can control the level of loudness the music we are playing out from the speaker during the night or quiet hour, and that will not cause us problem or someone to stop by to and tell us to turn it down. Third, I will make sure to not have any open alcohol containers around the area, since I have roommates who are not 21 yet then I have to put them away when I am done with it no matter what. Fourth, after 1am I will tell my friends not to yelling or screaming, since it is late and that is when the neighbors most likely will be in bed
already.
After all these things, I feel like I learned a lot of of it.
I learned to be more responsible with my friends and my room, since I am a host so everything they do is equal to be something I do as well. I learned that I shouldn’t be too loud once it is getting very late during the night, because people will be sleeping and nothing good happen after 2am. I learned that if I want to have more fun or be louder, then I have to be hanging out off campus in a house or something where I will not disturb people nearby. I learned that my friends who are not 21 can’t be anywhere near me and my friends while we are drinking no matter what they are doing, because then people can suspect that there is under age drinking or there is people who are over 21 offer alcohol to people who is not 21 years old. Anyways, I learned a lot from the situation, and I really don’t want it to happen again, since all my friends have to go through all the process and that is just not fun for them as well. I hope this reflection paper will tell you enough about what happened that night, and also show you that I really didn’t mean for this to happen, and it will not happen again while I am still here in hillside. I’m also very sorry for the inconvenience, and thank you for your
time.