<p>It made me chuckle, but now I can't help but feel grossed out by the campus community bathrooms. It's not the same as HS public restrooms since we just go in and go out in 5 minutes, but in college people live in the area and use it all the time for showers, brushing teeth, etc. This is a very minor concern, but people have the privacy at the comforts of their own home to pop a squat on the toilet and do the #2. Isn't it a bit embarassing/awkward? I don't usually use the HS public restrooms and just wait till I get home most of the time. Now that I'll be living on campus it's going to be rather weird ...</p>
<p>How bad is it?
When you shower do people just wrap towels around their bodies, get out of the stall, and walk around like that in dorm halls to get to their rooms to change? Or do you change in the bathroom? I'm pretty sure my dorm floors are co-ed so it'd be awkward just roaming the halls in only a towel.</p>
<p>What's your experience/take on college bathrooms?
Once again, I know. Silly topic. Laugh at my concerns, but I was just wondering :)</p>
<p>I’m wondering the same thing about changing clothes in the bathroom or just bringing a towel, but what happens if your roommate is in your room? Is it normal to change clothes (including underwear) with them there?</p>
<p>yeah, i’m confused on how to go about using the showers. do i undress in my dorm, even with my roommate inside, and wrap myself in a towel? and what about coming back from the shower…do i just wrap myself in a towel and walk back to the dorm, changing once inside?</p>
<p>Most people just walk around in towels, it’s not a big deal. If it really bothers you, you can change in the bathroom stalls. I don’t know, you just get used to changing in front of your roommate and having people, even of the opposite sex, walking around in towels. It sounds weird now but by December you won’t even bat an eye, I promise.</p>
<p>I’ll admit when I first got to college I was a bit shocked by the fact that my roommate just got totally naked in front of me (even when she knew I was bisexual). I just turned away and tuned it out and in a few weeks I didn’t even notice but it was a bit of a shock at first lol.</p>
<p>i would wear flip flops and just bring a towel. the human body is nothing to be ashamed of. most people are not going to be looking at you anyways and if they did who cares. id walk in there butt naked everytime.
flip flops so you dont get fungus or step in stuff.</p>
<p>I go to a community college, and the bathrooms in the performing arts building and in the Business Sciences and Technology building are usually very clean (probably because they’re newer buildings, and for the performing arts building, if you aren’t enrolled in a performing arts class, you cannot enter the building at all. The doors to the main lobby area is locked and the only way in is by going through the vocal music room).</p>
It’s not a 2’x2’ space, there is typically room in the showers.</p>
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You are not always limited to those options. I had a divided double that had a 3/4 wall between each side of the room, eliminating that problem. Most of the doubles at my college are fully divided, but that’s not typical of most universities.</p>
<p>Typically there will be at least one bathroom per floor. You can wear a robe at first if you want to get a feel for what the norm is, but there is honestly no reason to be self-conscious.</p>
<p>Easiest thing to do: wear a robe to the shower, carrying your towel, new undies, etc with you, take your shower, then dry off, still in the shower changing stall or area, put your new undies on, robe on, go back to room to get dressed. Worked for me all the years of college that I had a roommate/privacy/decency concerns.</p>
<p>what im gonna do when i get to my dorm is undress to my boxers in the dorm, then walk to the showers with a towel and shampoo and other stuff, shower, then dry and put on new boxers, then walk back to dorm room and put on clothes over there.</p>
<p>I wish I was going to have a single.
At my current uni, everyone has a single room, and half of people have their own bathrooms.
It’s not even a fancy place.</p>
<p>I hope I get one of the suites I requested with their own bathroom. I feel like Cory from Boy Meets World when he freaked out about the bathrooms. Pooping and showering are gonna be so weird at first. Glory…</p>
<p>I was really freaked out about the bathrooms when I started college too, but it’s mind over matter. I couldn’t change it so I just decided not to form an opinion about it once I got there, and I lived. As it turns out since the bathrooms were cleaned every day, they were cleaner than my bathrooms at home so I kind of came to like them. I usually went to the shower in flipflops wearing my pjs (shorts, t shirt) and hung a bag on the hook outside so I could change in the stall and put my clothes in the bag with my keys. I didn’t do the towel-wrapped-around thing, but I also moved into single-sex housing after my co-ed hall experience so I might be abnormally modest.</p>
<p>The bathrooms can really be a good thing, actually. You are going to meet a lot of people getting ready for class in the morning or ready for bed at night, and you’ll see those same people every day-- that’s actually how I made most of my friends my first year in the dorm. Lots of girls in the mirror every morning. That first year, the girls liked to take adjacent shower stalls so they could chat. Weird as it sounds, the bathroom is part of the community.</p>
<p>Wear sandals while you shower, regardless of the shower set up. You’d be amazed how frequently you see cum or other mysterious substances on the floor.</p>
<p>Haha I loved the communal bathroom! I had the fortune(?) to have my room attached to my floor common room so every time I took a shower I would have to walk out in front of half my floor in just a towel. You can get used to anything, by the way.</p>