Blasting is not going to ruin your GPA or detract from your study efforts. If it does, you need to work on your self discipline and ability to focus.

Spending hours on Youtube and Facebook will.

I’m sure other residents would not want blasting to occur late at night, even if students would prefer it.

I’d also bet that construction workers would appreciate being able to come to work in the morning, do their work, and then go home at night.

In fact, that’s the precise problem — the complaint here is that it’s not scheduled around what makes students most happy — specifically, letting them sleep very late into the morning.

Which is why I say it’s embarrassing. Calling it such, by the way, is not insulting the author. It’s a well written piece and I’m sure he’s a very bright guy, but that doesn’t mean the ideas in this piece aren’t embarrassing. The unbridled sense of entitlement that so many GW students project to the rest of the world is, indeed, embarrassing. And yes, thinking that the highest priority of a construction project should be the late-in-the-morning sleep schedule of a group of students who can certainly go to sleep earlier but choose not to is complete and utter entitlement.

There are plenty of quiet places to study at GW (Eckles, anyone?). Of course, this isn’t really about studying or finals. It’s about sleeping in. There are plenty of hours before 8am to sleep. The rest of the worlds’ needs can’t be expected to bend to the preferences of students just because they want to stay up late and sleep in all morning.

Maybe that’s not ideal for students. But maybe this will be the year that some students can learn what it means to be a member of society — which is not getting to do everything you want just because you want to do it, that other people have lives and schedules too, and sometimes people even make decisions for reasons other than your preferences.

IIRC there actually already is a compromise. DC law allows construction noise to begin at 7am in most instances. This project holds off the loud noise until 8am, I believe. And for all we know, the reason this whole portion of the construction is happening now was specifically designed so that it happened over the summer while the majority of students were away.

But what about those poor summer students! Can’t the administration just make everyone happy all the time?

Students only “need” to sleep in late in the morning if they choose to stay up late at night. Make no mistake, that is a choice.

You’re asking that a the entire project revolve around your desire to sleep in.

That’s embarrassing.