It’s Saturday night, you have a project worth half your grade due Monday and you’ve decided to pull an all-nighter to finish it. Then the music starts. And the yelling. And the drunken wrestling on your front lawn.

You’ve stuffed your ears full of tissues, tied a pillow around your head, turned on your fan for white noise and are speaking aloud to yourself, trying to focus on your work.

At this point, you realize you look like an oversized Pillsbury Doughboy, without the personable demeanor.

So you decide it’s time to move to a quieter part of town. But where is this elusive piece of silent real estate, and does it even exist?

According to the city’s police, shifting demographics in different areas of town make it hard to predict which neighborhoods will be the quietest even a few months from now.

Historically, Wards 1 and 2 have had more noise complaints than the rest of town, according to Sgt. Doug Hartman.

Winthrop Terrace Apartments at 400 E. Napoleon Road has had significantly fewer noise complaints than other large apartment complexes in town, Lt. Kenneth Fortney said.

However, Fortney cautioned, noise complaints may be an indication of tolerance levels rather than noise levels. Some people, primarily students, do not mind loud parties, so they make fewer complaints, he said.

“We only respond to loud party complaints if someone complains,” Fortney said. “Normally, we could respond to as many as a dozen on a given weekend night.”

Houses in residential neighborhoods are the best bet for students who need quiet housing, Fortney said – but this comes with the neighborly duty to be quiet.

“If you’re living in a [residential] neighborhood, you have to be responsible,” he said.

According to permanent residents, students who live in permanent resident-dominated areas are taking this responsibility seriously.

Bowling Green resident Wendy Neal, who lives on South Enterprise Street, three blocks east of Main Street, has a few student neighbors who she said are quiet and considerate.

“They’re really respectful,” Neal said of the students. “They just keep to themselves.”

Another permanent resident, Pamela Morris, who lives on West Wooster Street, has not lost any sleep due to noisy students. She said students live in a house a few doors down from her and they have been respectful.

“I don’t notice it [the noise] until I’m down on campus,” Morris said. “Bowling Green is a good place to live if you don’t go down by campus.”

Since higher concentrations of students seem to correlate with higher noise levels, students focused on their studies are likely to find quieter environments the farther from campus they live.

In the meantime, it may be smart to invest in a pair of earplugs, and to add the BGPD to your speed dial- just in case.