10 Reasons Why Communal Dorm Bathrooms Are The Worst
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10 Reasons Why Communal Dorm Bathrooms Are The Worst

I have never experienced anything more disgusting.

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10 Reasons Why Communal Dorm Bathrooms Are The Worst
Alexa O'Hanna

Not everyone is blessed with their own bathroom in college. Sharing three bathroom stalls and two showers between 24 girls (plus the occasional weekend visitors) is a nightmare.

1. Lack of privacy

Some people cannot relieve themselves in the public bathroom setting. There is nothing worse than being mid-dump and someone walking into the bathroom to brush their teeth or something.

2. Tiny Showers

Shaving is a nightmare due to this confined space and you have to be a contortionist to get a decent shave in. Washing your hair is also a struggle when you constantly bang your elbows on the walls of the shower.

3. Hairballs, hairballs everywhere

Girls are disgusting. People do not clean up after they shed and it is gross. You can almost always guarantee at least one nasty, wet, little clump of hair in the shower every time you set foot in it.

4. Inconsistent water pressure/temperature

Dorm showers stink in general but when a ton of people are showering at the same time, the pressure is so low. It takes about 10 extra minutes to rinse out long hair compared to your shower at home. On top of that, the water fluctuates mid-shower from freezing to skin-burning temperatures.

5. Waiting to shower

Like I said, I share a bathroom with about 24 girls and there are only two showers. Two. It is rather irritating when I come back from the gym sweating but I can't shower because there is a line.

6. Having to listen to music you hate

Often, we like to play music while we shower. If you are lucky, there is no one in the shower so you can play your music. However, that is not always the case. Personally, I despise country music and when the person showering next to me is blasting it (and singing to it), I suffer.

7. Strange scents

It's a public bathroom...you all know what I am talking about.

8. Strange objects in the toilets/showers

College is weird. You never know what you are going to get. Some drunk person last weekend decided to bring popcorn into the shower. Last semester, I was about to pee but then I saw a phone, an student ID, and a room key in the toilet. How does that even happen?

9. Food remnants in the sinks

Ladies, if you eat cereal and there are a few soggy Cheerios left, just flush it down the toilet. I don't want to see your nasty food scraps in the sinks when I am trying to wash my face or brush my teeth.

10. Lack of people cleaning up after themselves

If I have learned anything in college, it is that people are nasty. How a used feminine product ends up in the shower, I don't know. Why people don't flush after themselves, I don't get it.


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