<p>I remember having to sit in the laundry room and do homework in there, because if the machine stopped and you weren’t there immediately to move your clothes, someone else would and just leave them on top of the dryer where it was dirty.</p>
<p>*Where are all these high-tech washer’s?! My school had your standard washer and dryer–two per floor. *</p>
<p>How long ago were you in college?</p>
<p>When we first toured schools in 05, we found these high-tech laundry systems…so they aren’t new.</p>
<p>We were so impressed with the eSuds system at admitted students day at my kid’s school. I’m a little bereft to discover it is not unique to that school! I interpreted it as a sign of their interest in the quality of residence life.</p>
<p>'07-'11! We had terrible laundry at my school–guess that’s the price you pay for city living!</p>
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Many decades ago that I don’t even remember doing laundry but I am sure it was not $1.00 per washer or dryer cycle at my S’s school.</p>
<p>My son’s dorm washer and dryer are free (nothing fancy). Amazing what you get with your private-school tuition!</p>
<p>Sounds great…until somebody from MIT hacks into your washing machine and makes it skip the final spin cycle.</p>
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<p>I graduated last spring and had that problem even with the fancy washers. I had to sit there the whole time, and there was nothing to sit on but a hard table and it was roasting hot and took forever because the washers were so tiny that one weeks worth of clothes was AT LEAST two loads. People would take my clothes out of the dryer and dump them on the floor so they could use my dryer cycle without paying. I used to love laundry, college made me HATE IT. By the end of it I line dried all my clothes and washed anything I could by hand in the tub just to avoid having to sit in the laundry room. I am wondering now as a graduate how many years it will take me to undo the conditioning to buy enough clothes to only need to do laundry once a month. I’m pretty sure I’ve only done non-gym laundry five times since April.</p>
<p>The thing about the fancy websites telling you which washers are free is that the losers who dump your stuff on the floor after thirty seconds can see it too, as well as the people who are looking to see when the laundry room is likely to be unoccupied so they can steal.</p>
<p>Good one, Schmaltz.</p>
<p>D still uses quarters.</p>
<p>I also want to know where these fancy washing machine are because I am in the class of 2011 and we didn’t even have HE washers, we still had top loaders that were at least 20 years old. We had to use quarters - 1 a wash and 1.50 a dry. People would also steal your clothes. I had a clothes rack in my room by jr year.</p>
<p>My school has HE washers. It’s 1.25 to wash and 1.10 to dry. We only had people steal clothes/take clothes out in the freshman dorms, and even that wasn’t often at all.</p>
<p>I also didn’t know we had a website which showed all the available washers until half my time at umich was over. Some of your kids may have fancy washers and not know it. :P</p>
<p>*The thing about the fancy websites telling you which washers are free is that the losers who dump your stuff on the floor after thirty seconds can see it too, as well as the people who are looking to see when the laundry room is likely to be unoccupied so they can steal. *</p>
<p>What schools are these? I’ve never heard of such awful behavior. Do schools need to put cameras in laundry rooms?</p>
<p>It happened to my freshman roommate once, and she was drying a load of jeans. She was not pleased, to say the least.</p>
<p>We had that website at my old school last year where you could see when your wash / dry was done. It was pretty cool, with the machines in use being red and vibrating. You could also receive texts to inform you when the hour or so was over.
This year at my new school, laundry is free. 
But no fancy websites / text.</p>
<p>“What schools are these? I’ve never heard of such awful behavior.”</p>
<p>I’m guessing the schools are in the Northeast. Just a hunch.</p>
<p>We had that issue at my southern, all womens college all the time. I learned to sit with my laundry pretty quickly.</p>
<p>It’s pretty common – about as common as people who leave their clothes in the dryer overnight. You get inconsiderate people worldwide, not just in one small geographic region of one country. </p>
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<p>Now that’s great.</p>
<p>We had that issue at my southern, all womens college all the time.</p>
<p>What school was this? (I only know one all womens college in the South). </p>
<p>Anyway…I asked my kids and they’ve never heard of anyone experiencing clothes being stolen or thrown on the floor. However, their schools do put a folding table in each laundry room, so if your clothes are dried and the dryer is needed, your clothes might get placed on the folding table…but never on the floor or stolen!</p>
<p>Again, I think a well-placed camera would prevent such nasty behavior.</p>