<p>I have a choice between having my own bathroom with a roommate, but five minutes away from campus and having a community style bathroom on campus and in the newest dorms. i know community bathrooms are cleaned daily, but my main concern is people throwing up all the time. Does that happen often?</p>
<p>Unless you get plopped in one of the biggest party dorms at a big party school, no. I’ve lived in three buildings with community style bathrooms and only saw vomit once (this was due to a flu outbreak in my building).</p>
<p>It never happened when I lived in the dorms. The dorm bathrooms were cleaner then when I lived off campus.</p>
<p>I’d say go for the community style bathrooms on campus.</p>
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DS’s suite (which has several single/double bedrooms and a common living area) in the freshman year has their own bathroom which they need to clean by themselves. A few month after the school was started, the condition of the bathroom (and the common living area) were in a mess because they forgot to bring their “maid” (parents) from the home. In-the-room bathroom is over-rated. </p>
<p>And yes, in the sophomore year, they needed to clean up the bathroom after the party quite often. And it was not a communal bathroom. Also, the long hair (esp. from girls) clogged the drain quite often. Fortunately, one of DS’s suitemates knows how to unclug it (and he always keeps a set of tools and is a “handyman” for many of his male/female friends.)</p>