Once a week, I do my laundry in-between my classes and I can honestly say it is the worst two hours of my week. At first, I enjoyed the little break doing my laundry would give me, but over the year and a half I've been in college it is becoming exactly what it is: a chore. Here are seven reasons that doing laundry in college is the absolute worst.
1. It is inconvenient
Who really has two or more hours to block out for laundry? Between homework, classes and socializing, two hours is a lifetime.
2. Carrying your laundry to the laundry room
Maybe I am just weak but I always break into a little sweat lugging my laundry down the hall to the laundry room. I should probably just do my laundry more often but once again, who really has time for that?
3. Finding a washer and dryer
Either every single washer and dryer is being used by someone else or half of them are broken and can't be used. It literally feels like The Hunger Games sometimes when trying to get your laundry done. I have had to wait in the room for over 10 minutes just to get a dryer because I knew that if I left the room, it would be taken by the time I got back.
4. The machines
More likely than not, your laundry machines have not been updated since the building was built however many years ago. This causes them to break or not even really wash your clothes. Sometimes I take my laundry out and it just doesn't feel clean which kinda defeats the purpose of doing laundry.
5. The weird odor
Going along with the machines being ridiculously old, they always seem to develop a strange odor about halfway through the semester. You pretend you don't notice it but it actually makes you pretty nervous because... what could possibly making that smell?!?
6. Carrying your laundry back to your room
Going along with number two, carrying it back is somehow worse since you're technically done with laundry but not really. At least the clothes are warm and nothing is better than warm laundry!
7. Putting your clothes away
If you're like me, you are so done with the whole process of doing laundry that you just shove your clothes into drawers and try to forget about the scarring experience that is laundry. Only one more week until you have to do it again!
