<p>"when you're changing into your clothes after you take a shower, do you do it in the stalls? because i know i cant do that without make the clothes wet...and you cant do it in your dormroom if your roomate is in there..."</p>
<p>Most people I know have a robe that they wear both to and from the shower stalls, they undress and dress in the privacy of their rooms, or their room closets (if they have walk-in closets).</p>
<p>You can easily do it in your room when your roommate is there... A bathrobe or just a towel works perfectly fine.</p>
<p>lol, the slippery flip flops remind me of when they had just finished mopping the floor and didn't get up all the soap and i walked unsuspectingly into the trap and slipped and slid all the way to the shower. it was like ice skating...except not</p>
<p>i wear a robe back from the shower. you get over the whole "not changing while your roommate is there" thing real fast - she needs to change too, and it's not as if she's going to look.</p>
<p>If you're really that shy, just turn your back to your roommate while changing clothes. </p>
<p>Roommates usually learn pretty quickly what each other's comfort zone is, and will get over nudity issues one way or another. Some rommates are prudes while others are exhibitionists, with the majority somewhere in between.</p>
<p>Have you ever crapped in the grocery store? its the same thing.</p>
<p>Showers in the dorms are actually better than the ones at home, i have stayed in there for over 45 minutes before, (with a couple beers of course, and my friend was in the next stall, and we hurled insults at eachother for the better part of half an hour, and in no way was my personal space invaded) And the best part was- No angry parent telling you to get out, and best of all, the water was still hot. I am beginning to think it may be unlimmited. </p>
<p>The bathrooms really get stinky on the weekend, especially guys bathrooms do, cuz we pee everywhere when we are drunk. But it is pretty funny to walk in and see who's throwing up.</p>
<p>As far as changing goes, nobody really wants to see other people's junk of the same sex unless they're gay, and you'll figure out who those people are after a couple weeks. If your roommate is in the room you don't need a towel or anything, just face the corner. I quite frankly don't care if he sees my tookus, and if he does, its his own frickin fault for looking.</p>
<p>Community bathrooms are not so bad. I think the worst part of the whole experience is the scratchy toilet paper, it occasionally cuts my butthole. And like someone else said, it's not like everyone is in there at the same time. I have never seen all the stalls filled and there are at least 50 people on my floor.</p>
<p>thanks for responding to my question. it's not really an issue of shyness for me. i dont care if my roommate looks, but that'd be kind of weird. i just dont want others to think i'm being too "open" if i just change in the room ahha.</p>
<p>Our showers sort of have an extra changing section. All my roommates either come back to the room in a towel or bathrobe and change here, but I shower at night, when our room is full of people, and I'd rather not be changing in front of 8 or 10 people. So I change in the shower, and my clothes stay fairly dry.</p>
<p>I've gotten much more comfortable with nudity and all those issues since I've spent a semester in college, especially after seeing a few people walk around partially naked through our dorms - me and my roommate just change in front of each other and neither one cares...but if it's necessary, i can always just go to the bathroom to change (we have a private one, not communal) or if desperate, one could always change in the shower stalls or bathroom stalls - you define your own comfort level...as for doing your business in the bathroom, if you feel uncomfortable in front of people, just do it when they leave or find another bathroom..nothing else i can tell you</p>
<p>PEALS-05</p>
<p>I have to say you're pretty much my hero. I died laughing over here readinh your posts. Definitely college application essay material right there.</p>
<p>wear slippers. you dont want to know what people do in the showers. nosirree you dont.</p>
<p>packrbackr, you obviously dont have a white castle on campus. THEN you would definitely see ALL of the seats filled, and maybe even the sinks. just kidding about the sinks lol.</p>
<p>The only time I've seen all the stalls filled (actually we had a line), was a little before 2 on a Friday morning, after we came in from 20 minutes in the 25 degree night air. Someone had burnt popcorn, setting off the fire alarm and waking everyone (it was the end of midterm week; 90% of the building was already asleep). I think the combination of being startled and cold caused the problem</p>
<p>haha well actually yeah i think there was one instance where all the urinals were being used when several of us drunkards came in, and we resorted to sinks, but in hindsight we could have used the stalls. That is what you call "Impaired Judgement"</p>
<p>And we do have a Taco Bell on State Street, which has similar effects as White Castle (though not quite as drastic)</p>