<p>How are the bathrooms at boarding schools? The showers? IS there a lot of privacy? etc. ?</p>
<p>It depends on the individual dorm, but the bathrooms are generally pretty nice. 7 girls share my bathroom. The showers are kinda small, but they are pretty good. Every things depends on the school/dorm/floor/side of the dorm you are on (the other side has nicer showers than mine) They are all so different it's hard to give a good idea of waht they are like. The bathroom is cleaned every couple of days, so they are pretty clean too.
Sorry, that didn't really help much.</p>
<p>You don't know how awesome it is to take a dump without anyone walking in. SO amazing. Makes you appreciate home even more.</p>
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How are the bathrooms at boarding schools? The showers? IS there a lot of privacy? etc. ?
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Only fruits think about that stuff. Dude, cut the *<strong><em>. You are WAY too stressed out about boarding school. Who gives a *</em></strong> about privacy in the bathroom? The dorms are single sex, so if someone tries to watch you take a crap, everyone will call them a fruit.</p>
<p>You'd be better off working on getting in to the schools first, then finding out about this **** on your tour.</p>
<p>wow. I go to a boarding school in Illinois, (Illinois Math and Science Academy). In our dorms, there are two people in each room and each room has its own bathroom (so 2 people per bathroom). We have to clean our own, so they can get pretty nasty (if you're a guy). The toilets clog a lot. But, mine is private and a little crampt at times, but at least has good showers and lighting. Sometimes I do homework in my bathroom, when my roomate sleeps, so I don't wake him up (I clean it every week, so it's sanitary). </p>
<p>But 7 girls to 1 bathroom? I'm a guy, and if that happened in a guy's dorm, wow. No person could handle that mess.</p>
<p>I think the bathroom that has seven girls probably has a few showers and toilets, not just one.</p>
<p>I think I would want a smaller dorm. I don't feel like sharing a huge bathroom with 40 people.</p>
<p>Ya, we have two showers, toiliets, sinks, mirrors, and such. And if our bathroom is crowded, we can just go down the hall to the other bathroom.
Jonathan, you would probably never have to share a bathroom with that many people. In larger dorms there are usually 1 or 2 bathrooms per floor.
The smaller dorms do get more private bathrooms because many of them used to be houses. I even know some kids that have bathtubs in their room.</p>
<p>Do you get to pick the size of dorm that you want? Or are you stuck with whatever they pick for you? I think I'd want a smaller dorm.</p>
<p>You get a questionnaire before the beginning of the year, and there are questions about the kind of room (single or double), if you want to room with an international student, size of the dorm you prefer, etc. However at a lot of schools you don't have too much choice in some aspects, including size and type of room, during your freshman and sometimes lower year.</p>
<p>Does anyone have any information on the bathrooms at Milton?</p>
<p>i think my dorm beats all your horror stories. 30 girls, (and sorry to stereotype, but the girls that actually care about how they look) use one bathroom in my dorm.clogged toilets, hair in the shower, it gets pretty disgusting especially on weekends when the cleaning lady doesn't come</p>
<p>the bathrooms at milton are fine. there are usually two bathrooms per floor and usually two toilets and 2-3 showers and 2 sinks, and if your in the new dorm there is also a bathtub, but people dont usually use them. also the bathrooms are really clean because someone comes in and cleans them everyday. however some of the older dorms look kind of gross, but there still clean</p>
<p>okay, thanks! :)</p>
<p>haha, you think 7 guys to a bathroom is bad? i had about 16 last year at my boarding school, but that was just unlucky, cuz the other floors had much better ratios. but then again, it was cleaned every day by our janitor, and we just figured out a rotation for taking our showers in the morning. honestly, jonathan, is there no minutiae of boarding school life about which you will not inquire?</p>
<p>made, I'm following you............lol, jonathan k is all about knowing it down to the nat's as.............. I'm sure there are many people reading but not typing that appreciate the minutiae of JK.</p>
<p>Big variety here at Exeter, but as dorms are renovated they're brought to a general sort of standard for students / bathroom and fixtures and everything. I don't like the renovations all that much sometimes because the dorms lose some of the nice old things they had (like good moulding... oh god) and get a more homogenized feel across campus. That being said, the bathrooms don't vary all that much, they've been fixed up across campus more or less uniformly. This year, as a senior, I have my own bathroom! all to myself, with a shower. My dorm was renovated 3 years ago (?) to the new-renovated-ness and I think that ours is the only one of those newly renovated to feature individual bathrooms. I don't favor them from a societal, community, cultural standpoint, but as one of something like 3 people on campus with their own bathroom, I'm not complaining. It makes up for tiny rooms (Peabody is very old, very central on campus--very small. Renovations were not very efficient with space, either...)</p>
<p>The new academy center's day student lounge has very nice bathrooms for day students, and I hear the walk-in showers in the lockable 1-person bathrooms are... good. (>__<)</p>
<p>Bathrooms are cleaned regularly, and the more recently a dorm was renovated the better off you'd be. Some of the older, bigger dorms have less fun deals where more people on a floor are sharing fewer bathrooms. Again, fairly reasonable range, but nothing is intolerable.</p>
<p>lol jon's being pretty thorough here</p>
<p>umm bathrooms will be like college dorm bathrooms, usually a few curtained showers, few sinks, few stalls.</p>
<p>most will be nice, most will be tolerably clean</p>
<p>shouldn't be a biggie.</p>