<p>Kinda shy dude, the showers in my dorms next year are single sex open shower rooms. Are most college showers open? If so, has anyone ever had a problem with this? Are you afraid of someone looking at you? Do you get use to it?</p>
<p>I don’t know how it is in most colleges, but at my college – and a couple that I visited when visiting friends’ dorm at another college – have shower stalls with those plastic shower curtain. </p>
<p>I’m not afraid of anyone looking at me because surely, it is none of their business. But awww…don’t feel so bad about showering amongst other people =) </p>
<p>If you do, find a good time of day where there are barely no one using the bathroom for showering – like maybe really late at night or really early in the morning (around 5 or 6).</p>
<p>Yeah I agree most colleges I’ve went to had shower stalls or curtains between stalls. However, most fraternity houses like mine are open showers but it’s completely different compared to a dorm since there would be people you don’t even know. Just man up and show your assets like many gym showers/lockers are like also.</p>
<p>That sucks. I guess you’ll be taking 4am showers then?</p>
<p>Yeah, in my dorm, we have plastic curtains in front of the stalls. But it’s a small dorm, so most of the bathrooms only have one shower, so a curtain is needed to separate it from the rest of the bathroom anyway. </p>
<p>I’m not trying to be pessimistic, but I just want to warn you that no matter what time you shower, people will still walk in on you. Literally, no matter what time I shower, there’s always someone else wanting to use the shower at the same time - 11 PM, 2 AM, 4 AM…I’ve tried them all, and I’ve come to the conclusion that there’s really no way to pick a time to shower when nobody else will be showering. Maybe you’ll have more luck than I did, though. :)</p>
<p>Good luck!</p>
<p>At my first school, we had three showers in the bathroom on my floor. Each one was separated from the other by a wall like you find in bathroom stalls, and each one had a privacy glass door. Pretty nice. </p>
<p>At my current school there’s a standard shower with a plastic curtain and a door that leads in to it. There’s also a shower/bathtub with the same setup. So yeah, I’ve been lucky with the privacy aspect.</p>
<p>I understand your anxiety, but just try and get used to it. Know that most of the guys probably feel or used to feel the same way. And that they probably wouldn’t be looking at you / “sizing you up” if you catch my drift.</p>
<p>everyone else is probably nervous but it will most likely get better with time. if yo dont mind me asking, what college are you going to?</p>
<p>Who cares just shower of course guys will see your *****…no big deal though is it?</p>
<p>Lol, but what about for coed showers?</p>
<p>just don’t take showers.</p>
<p>^ Lol good advice.</p>
<p>where in gods name is there coed showers</p>
<p>I thought MIT had them. I better check</p>
<p>A lot of schools apparently have coed bathrooms, which would include showers. I am guessing it’s more the smaller colleges which are more likely to have dorms with only one bathroom per floor (+coed floor= coed bathroom.) Not my cup of tea.</p>
<p>sounds like a lawsuit waiting to happen</p>
<p>I live on a gender-neutral floor, there you go with your coed bathroom. Even on the floors that aren’t gender-neutral many have decided to keep the bathrooms gender-neutral. (Yes it takes time getting used to walking in on guys who pee with an open stall). Anyhow there are normally two showers in one bathroom in my dorm, both with a shower curtain. However all the showers tend to be in a stall that can be locked, which is what basically everyone does. It works. Not the best, but it works.</p>
<p>There was a thread on the matter in the parents forum where it was basically asserted that the only people who care about coed bathrooms are the people who haven’t tried living in them. Shortly thereafter I spoke to a girl on my floor who was extremely upset that the bathroom rules are not enforced at her bathroom and that guys are in there all the time and it makes her and several others extremely uncomfortable, and though they keep complaining nothing is happening about it. Ohhh well.</p>
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<p>I’ve never heard of any establishment or organization having coed bathrooms. I’ve heard of unisex bathrooms but they’re usually limited to one occupant who can lock the door.</p>
<p>It just sounds like a disaster waiting to happen.</p>
<p>We had coed bathrooms in the dorms on the Radcliffe Quad at Harvard. I understand there have recently been some renovations to re-configure the dorms, which were single rooms off a hallway with a couple of large common bathrooms on each floor, into suites (like the Harvard houses), but for 20-30 years, there were coed bathrooms.</p>
<p>The toilets were in enclosed stalls, the showers had curtains.</p>
<p>We wore bathrobes.</p>