<p>For those of you living in a residence hall:</p>
<p>Do you prefer a public bathroom or a shared bathroom? I would prefer a shared one (with just my roomate(s)), but I heard that it can be kind of gross, as no one ever cleans it. How do the community bathrooms work? How many showers, toilets, etc? Do you often have to wait? Do you bring all clothing with you into the shower?? If anyone could explain it to me, I would appreciate it. Thanks.</p>
<p>I just wanted to know if it was communal showers or if there were individual private shower stalls in most colleges cuz i kinda hate showering with a bunch of naked guys.</p>
<p>I know that they are individual shower stalls.</p>
<p>There isnt a college in the nation that has open shower stalls. Only if they had them on the female floors. (hmm)</p>
<p>Do the doors extend to the ground? I hate the gap between the floor and the door in public bathrooms. No privacy at all.</p>
<p>I bet some military colleges have communal showers. The Citadel comes to mind.</p>
<p>My dorm has a private bathroom for every room, which is the reason why I requested it. I love traveling less than 3 feet to go to the bathroom, or take a shower. I was not fond of the idea of using the same bathroom as 20 other girls. I just have to maintain it, which isn't a big deal.</p>
<p>In my dorm, 24 girls share the same bathroom. There are 5 showers and 4 toilets. I've never had to wait for either. The entire bathroom gets cleaned once a day. The showers have a double curtain: the first closes off the shower, the second makes a little changing area between the shower curtain and the outer curtain. The curtains don't go ALL the way to the floor, but they come within about 4 inches of it, and since there are two, no one can see your feet anyway. It takes some getting used to, but honestly, it's not as bad as it seems. It was the one thing I was really really nervous about before coming to college, but you get used to it so quickly.</p>
<p>remember to take shower shoes (like flip-flops) to college if you'll be using communal showers.</p>
<p>Do you suggest that I request a dorm that has one bathroom for two rooms to share (4 people)? I'm assuming that they aren't ever cleaned, which would be the only downside. My brother shared a bathroom with a few roomates who never cleaned up after themselves. He said that they would get drunk and get puke all over the place and just leave it. </p>
<p>It still seems more appealing to me that sharing one with 25 other people. Are the toilet stalls basically the same as every other public bathroom?</p>
<p>I have a bathroom that I share just with my roommate, but it gets cleaned once a week by a janitor, so it is quite clean.</p>
<p>the janitor cleaned our bathroom every day when I lived in the dorms.. i think its common for janitors to clean bathrooms..</p>
<p>I read that some dorm floor's bathrooms/showers are coed at Wesleyan. I believe that students on the floor vote on it at the beginning of the term. A guy could be blow drying his hair in front of a mirror while a girl takes a shower in an open shower stall behind him.</p>
<p>^^^</p>
<p>That's what they do at Grinnell.</p>
<p>Guys don't blow dry their hair.</p>
<p>In my (all female) dorm we have a 14 person floor so you share your washroom with that many people. There are 3 shower stalls--each comes with a little changing room, and no, the shower door does not extend all the way to the floor). There are 3 toilets too I think....and one bathtub. However I have never once had to wait for a shower or anything else--I guess my neighbors and I are just all on different schedules ;) The janitor cleans them and they are almost always very nice.</p>
<p>The dorms that pose the biggest problems were built in the 50s and 60s, shortly before Wesleyan switched from an all-male to a co-ed university--hence only one bathroom per floor. When the college began permitting co-ed housing by room, not just by floor, residents had to figure out whether they preferred co-ed bathrooms over running up and down stairs to do their grooming and bathing. Co-ed bathrooms are the choice nearly every year. Incidentally, the showers and sinks are on opposite sides of a rather long, tile wall; the only thing a guy would see in the mirror would be his face and the stalls to the commodes in back of him (the urinals have been tastefully covered over.:))</p>
<p>My daughters floor has about 16 people possibly 10 rooms? with two bathrooms one at each end. The floor decides whether to have them coed or not, virtually always they are coed
Very nice bathrooms with two showers with doors and plenty of room for changing and a bench. Wheelchair accessible. Wire bins on the walls like "cubbies" for your supplies.
Pretty nice.</p>
<p>to people who are already in college, how does the system work? do ya'll change in and out of ur clothes in the shower? or go out with just a towel on. are there usually dry cubbies for ur towel/clothes?
oh and how do you guys take care of hand-wash only clothes?
wut times are the bathrooms usually empty?</p>
<p>Just to paint things a little clearer, you have to imagine that there are, indeed, shower curtains and places to hang a towel or robe near, within arms reach. As in many things of this nature, there's a bit of sexism involved: guys only have to reach for a towel to throw around their waists before prancing down the hall. In the first weeks of the new year, you (the guys) may get a few whistles from some of the more audacious females. After that, you're already old hat, and no one will cast a second glance. Women, of course, have to opt for a robe of some sort, and generally get fewer whistles. You also have to imagine that not everyone uses the bathrooms at the same time and that there are generally times when they may even be deserted (generally, the earlier in the morning, the less crowded.)</p>