<p>I'm really curious about bathrooms, since I will have to use the UW dorm bathrooms for a year.. Is there one bathroom per floor for all dorms? What are some of the rules you must abide by that don't apply to your home bathroom? Are bathrooms co-ed (maybe not all but some)? How are showers designed? What is the atmosphere like in the girl's bathroom? Sorry about having so many questions, lol. I've never seen it for myself so I just really curious.. :) Thanks</p>
<p>Depends on the dorm.</p>
<p>I’m curious about Terry & Lander</p>
<p>I’m open to any dorm so please write about your experience with the bathrooms. Thanks!!</p>
<p>I’m gonna be a freshman this coming school year - yay for Class of 2014!! 
- but one of my friends who lives in Terry this year said that there is one bathroom per floor. Thing is…it really means one, so one floor has a guys bathroom and the next floor has a girls bathroom =\ I’m not sure how they alternate but that’s what I’ve been told about Terry - he said it wasn’t too bad though</p>
<p>Are these bathrooms such that you get to know your dormmates really well? :p</p>
<p>I have only used Haggett’s bathrooms but i imagine it’s fairly universal in all the dorms. one guys, one girls bathroom per floor. 2 stalls (maybe an additional in the girls room, i’m not sure because i’m not a girl), 6 sinks, a curtain separating a shower area where there are 3 separate showers with one drain in the middle shower (don’t know about the girls, but the middle shower is off limits in the guys bathroom because everything drains to it- so basically 2 working showers).</p>
<p>Interesting how Haggett’s showers are designed like that… So the three people who shower can see each other??</p>
<p>oh no. they are three separate shower stalls, just the dividers don’t go all the way to the floor (maybe 8 in. or so) so the water all flows into the middle.</p>
<p>^
omg… that is really messed up. seeing someone elses bath water flow by… ughh</p>
<p>Disgusting! Guys don’t have to worry so much about this, but what if the girl showering next to you is on her period?!? I guess this is part of the whole “college experience”…</p>
<p>Are you guys really that stupid? I wonder how they even accepted you to UW.</p>
<p>There are three stalls and the water goes to the middle. Use your brain people.</p>
<p>^although i haven’t experienced that, i have heard stories…</p>
<p>I’m not sure how the drains work exactly, but one of the above descriptions seemed pretty accurate. I don’t actually go to UW, but my friend gave me a tour of her dorm and I wanted to see how the bathroom situation worked. It was the girl’s bathroom and it was actually really large, and very clean (i believe they are cleaned a daily basis so that is good). The first thing to my right was a few stalls for toilets, and then to the left was a row of sinks with mirrors (i don’t remember how many exactly). At the very left at the end was a row of stalls with solid shower curtains were the showers, it didn’t seem like they all drained to the middle, maybe i assumed incorrectly that each stall had it’s own drain?</p>
<p>I came during spring break and there was actually someone showering, but we couldn’t see her so that tells me that the stalls are tall enough so that no one can see you, but I wasn’t crazy that the stalls for the showers didn’t have closable doors, just shower curtains. It was a lot more sanitary than I thought (really clean : )</p>
<p>Also, all the girls on the floor had a key to get in, and all the dorms needed student ids to open doors to get into the building, and of course separate keys into the dorm so it seemed pretty safe.</p>
<p>diniefofinie,
Thanks for such a vivid explanation! 
Do you remember which residence hall that was?</p>
<p>thank you to diniefofinie and spaceneedle! i got my answer… makes me feel a WHOLE lot better about showers next year :)</p>