<p>This may sound like a silly post, but I have several questions regarding bathrooms. </p>
<p>Do students keep their toiletries in the bathroom? For the bathrooms that are shared by a whole floor, how can you keep your toiletries the bathrooms without them being stolen? </p>
<p>Can other people randomly come into your bathroom and use it? </p>
<p>Do showers have a sectioned off area for changing, or do people walk back to their rooms to change?</p>
<p>Depends on where. For East Campus, we all have sinks in our rooms, and keep things like toothbrushes there. Most of us have little toiletry baskets that we take with us when we shower. I remember from my CPW that McCormick has little cubbies to put their stuff in. I doubt there’s major shampoo-stealing problems there 
Different dorms do things differently. Bathrooms, being inside of dorms, require dorm access - so no, random people off the street won’t be using your bathroom.</p>
<p>Some showers have sectioned off areas, but most people change in their rooms. Bring a robe ^.^</p>
<p>(Perfectly reasonable question, by the way.)</p>
<p>If you don’t have a sink in your room, there will probably be cubbies for you to put your stuff in. I keep my stuff in my room anyway and just carry it with me to the shower.</p>
<p>Also, just for the record, co-ed bathrooms are like, ten million times less exciting than you think they are.</p>
<p>^Agreed – nothing exciting ever happened in my co-ed bathroom, except freshman showering for the first 8.01 test. Once, my suitemate was flexing his muscles in front of the mirror in a towel, and all of the females in the suite were making fun of him, but that was more funny than scintillating.</p>
<p>In MacGregor, bathrooms are shared by a suite (6-8 people), and have cubbies. I stored my stuff in the cubbies and, if there was ever a problem with people using my shampoo, I didn’t know about it. Mostly you will learn whether you can trust the people you live with. </p>
<p>In these MacGregor bathrooms, there was a curtained-off area in front of the shower where you could change if you wanted to. In my suite, walking back to your room with a towel on was also an acceptable option.</p>
<p>In Simmons most doubles have a private bathroom right outside the room (or even in the room). It is often shared by the double and a nearby single. Maximum 3 people per bathroom.</p>
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Baker is the same.</p>
<p>Metapod- do you live in Simmons?</p>
<p>Yup. Simmons- the porousibilities are endless.</p>
<p>Just wanted to add (I live in MacG) that I’ve never had stuff stolen inside the dorm, either from the bathroom or anything I left lying around in my suite (ie. dishes in the sink, laptop in the lounge, etc.) My bike has been stolen, but it was outside the student center and I left it there overnight (locked, but still - don’t do that).</p>
<p>If you go into any Bed Bath and Beyond and explore the section devoted to college students, you’ll find a variety of bathroom totes students use to carry their stuff into the bathroom and back to the bedroom. Some are made of netting and go easily right into the shower.</p>
<p>Nothing exciting about co-ed bathrooms. We have several right here at home.
:-)</p>
<p>^ If you’re talking about single-occupancy bathrooms (such as those in homes), it doesn’t count ^.^</p>
<p>Pretty much everywhere you go will have at least one single-occupancy bathroom, though.</p>
<p>Unfortunately statistically this bathroom will also contain the worst shower.</p>
<p>Most bathrooms in BC are coed and in practice single occupancy. The basic rules most people follow are: Leave the door open if you don’t mind people coming in and out. If the door is closed, knock. The person inside will either tell you to come in or wait. So the only way there is ever more than one person in the bathroom is if both parties are okay with it. As previously observed, this is very unexciting.</p>
<p>We also have shelves for keeping shower products. Like Mollie, if anyone else stole some of my shampoo from the bottle, I never knew about it. Unfortunately kitchen items left out did not like to stay where I left them. (I don’t think most of this was malicious, mostly people borrowing without asking and forgetting to return it. Which is still very rude and annoying, but not quite the same thing as stuff getting stolen. Most of it eventually reappeared, even if it was weeks later.) Again, these are the kinds of things you will catch on to pretty quickly.</p>