<p>hey, i was just wondering how the shower/bathroom situations are...do two rooms share a shower, or does one whole floor share one? also, i know that at some colleges, there is a sink in each dorm room. is this the case at berkeley?</p>
<p>At CalSO I stayed at Unit 3, Priestly Hall, floor 2. When you go into the bathroom there's a row of sinks (I think there were about ~5 sinks) on your right and locks on your left. You go all the way to the end of the hall, make a right, and go forward and you'll be presented with the showers and toilets. On your left are the bathroom stalls (there were 3 of them), and on your right are the toilet stalls (also 3, IIRC), and at the very end are the urinals. Each stall holds one shower. </p>
<p>Unless you're in a suite, I believe each floor shares a bathroom. I have never heard of sinks in each dorm room.</p>
<p>it depends @ foothill, suites have their own bathroom, foothill/bowles/units bathrooms are different too.</p>
<p>At Cal Day, we visited just about every dorm at Berkeley, and I spent two nights in Unit 3 for the parents' part of CalSo. This is what I saw (and experienced):</p>
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<li><p>No sinks in any of the rooms (and we visited dorm rooms and suites at Clark Kerr, several dorm rooms in Unit 1, several dorm rooms at Foothill (both La Loma and Hillside, and as stated, in Unit 3).</p></li>
<li><p>Units 1 and 3 have coed bathrooms and appear to be shared by the entire floor. I forgot about the dorms in Clark Kerr, but the suites are like apts. and have something like two or three rooms (with 1 or 2 people in each room) and share a common living room and bathroom. Foothill was suite-like. Some of the larger suites had a number of bedrooms, a common room (living room) and two bathrooms, one for men and one for women. Foothill also has combo bath & showers with stall doors. Didn't go into Stern or Bowles.</p></li>
<li><p>I would have thought it would be creepy sharing coed bathrooms, but it didn't bother me at all (yes, parents shared coed bathrooms, lol). I guess I've done too much camping in my life to care about any of this stuff, been married way too long, or still into commune living mentality, for what it's worth. </p></li>
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<p>And yes, I am too young to be one of the Merry Pranksters, but I'm still "on the bus".</p>
<p>The only thing you should be concerned about with showers is the shower head. Avoid the small wimpy ones.</p>
<p>oh man, at CalSo, I could not get the water warm. grrrrrrrr....took freezing two minute showers.</p>
<p>hahah same here, purple cow... so did you work it out at the end?
(i didnt... =/) hahah</p>
<p>I also could not get warm water with the showers at CalSO. I was on the second floor of Priestly. I flipped the handle all the way up and waited 2 minutes, still cold, then flipped the handle all the way down and waited 2 minutes, again still cold. Then I just said "screw it" and took the coldest shower of my life :(</p>
<p>Don't worry about it; that ALWAYS happens at CalSO. It's because 30 people on the floor are all forced to get up at the same time. Realistically, there will be only 2-3 people using the showers MAX during the school year and the water should be fine.</p>
<p>just out of curiosity, here's a question for continuing berkeley students: how many times a week did you take a shower during the school year? i need to take one everyday, and planned to do so at berkeley, but someone told me that it's difficult to do so during college...</p>
<p>I think most people take showers every day here.. I don't think your time is THAT limited in college that you can't manage 15-30 min a day to keep your body freshened up..</p>