<p>If we definitely want suite style bathrooms or a private bathroom, is it guaranteed that we will get either one? </p>
<p>I'm just not very comfortable with the whole idea of hall bathrooms? :/</p>
<p>Unfortunately, freshman dorm assignments are pretty much a shot in the dark, I believe. </p>
<p>I’m not a fan of hall bathrooms either. I find public bathrooms awkward, for one.</p>
<p>I mean, I’ve dealt with communal showers and bathrooms before at summer camps and stuff, it’s just the thought of dealing with it for a year or more makes me a little uncomfortable.</p>
<p>I’m especially worried because they always talk about how you need to be careful and make sure your feet don’t get fungi and infections, which freaks me out because I have chronic dry skin and my toes sometimes crack open and bleed. </p>
<p>Open foot wounds + probability of foot fungi/infections = me very worried</p>
<p>Anyway, I guess I can deal as long as the people sharing the bathroom are respectful. I don’t know how mature or immature any of the people on the floor will be though.</p>
<p>-sigh- The whole bathroom deal is one of the few things I’m worried about. Having to use public/communal bathrooms all the time seems awkward to me, especially as a girl. >< I value my privacy highly, and it’s the one thing that’s really iffy in college. </p>
<p>Lastly, there’s the whole cleaning thing. All the colleges I’ve visited always say the communal bathrooms are cleaned really well, but…you know? How well is “really well”?</p>
<p>So, anyway, I guess we’re in the same boat, huh? ><</p>
<p>You really can’t choose what type of bathroom you’ll have. In May, you put down whether you prefer a small, medium, or large dorm and from there it’s pretty random. </p>
<p>The majority of dorms have hall baths and people seem to manage fine. I have suite style but the downside to that is that you have to clean it yourselves. In any case you get used to sharing a bathroom pretty quickly.</p>
<p>when you say “private”, if you are looking for your own personal bathroom that is not shared with anyone, you won’t get that.</p>
<p>Most of the dorms have hall bathrooms I think. Dupont has suites. That might be the only one of the freshmen dorms?</p>
<p>Hall bathrooms are honestly not a big deal at all… you wear your flip flops to shower, and you sit on the toilet, just like you would if you have a suite bathroom.</p>
<p>Just to play devil’s advocate, hall bathrooms can generate some great social interactions in that you must leave your room to use the bathroom and you’ll realize after 2 hours that you stopped in your friend’s room on the way to the bathroom and never actually made it to the restroom. Hall bathrooms are cleaned for you by W&M housekeepers whereas suite bathrooms are not. Something else to consider.</p>