<p>How would current students describe teh amount of teh showering taht is done by teh students? I've heard taht teh dorms can become very smelly... I don't want to be surrounded by stinky mcstinksters!!!! !~LOLZ~~</p>
<p>I believe showering is done in the normal proportions for most people at most times. :)</p>
<p>It's really just toward the end of the term that you might sit next to someone in an Athena cluster and think "man! This person has been working hard for an extremely extended period of time! And perhaps there is another computer somewhere else in this cluster where I could check my email!"</p>
<p>At the moment, I am happy to report, I am sitting in an Athena cluster toward the end of the term and everything smells just rosy.</p>
<p>Among the elite schools, MIT definitely has a disproportionate number of students for which hygience and personal grooming are not exactly priorities. I wouldn't even say that it's a matter of 'working hard', it's more to do with simply not caring. This phenomenom seems to be most prevalent among the graduate students. Suffice it to say that there are certain doctoral students in math, physics, or engineering who are 'fragrance-challenged'.</p>
<p>Nevetheless, it is true that this isn't an issue with the majority of people.</p>
<p>Hahaha, this is a funny thread. There's a guy in my class who showers about once every two weeks (it is disgusting), but it's because he plays video games all night- not because of HW.</p>
<p>Showering is for losers.</p>
<p>lmao!</p>
<p>It's true though, and gets more true torward the end of the term. :P</p>
<p>shower!!!! what are deo's for.</p>
<p>A lot of undergrads take showers as a sort of "study break" or relaxation technique, not necesarily just to get clean, so for some people, it actually increases proportionally to homework.</p>
<p>For the upperclassmen or grad students in labs and whatnot who never return to their dorms... that's a different story.</p>