College bathrooms have a notorious reputation for being disgusting! Especially on my campus. Whether it is due to lack of maturity of the residents or lack of motivated staff bathrooms in the residence halls have for lack of a better word a "bad reputation". So for all of you out there who many not have experienced a university bathroom here is some insight to what we have going up in upper education. And for those who know this struggle please don't be afraid to comment, "I feel you..."

1. It is not safe to set feet onto the surfaces of the showers. So we get creative with our footwear to the bathroom.

2. In communal bathrooms sometimes you get to know you fellow floor mates, more than you've ever wanted to know. Also you find out that some people are definitely more comfortable with their body than you are.

3. We've all have had those moments when you see a huge chunk of hair in the shower drain and it just makes you wonder.

4. We all have a favorite stall to go to, the one that we trust, the only one we trust, and when we don't get it right away we wait for it.

5. Some schools have corporations do their custodial duties in the halls... This may be economical for the school but whenever residences ask for clean shower curtains most of those custodians just go on and say...

6. Oh no lets not blame the problems only on custodians. College students are a great portion for the pee on the seat, vomit in the showers, and a bunch of other sincerely gross stuff as well. Its a fact of life.

7. Walking into the bathroom you have all of your gear, you got your towel, robe, flip flops, bathroom caddy, and you are starring stalls down hoping for an open one cause you have a class, and you seriously need a shower.

8. If you are shy you will have to come up with different and strange schedules to get in your shower without anyone in it. 5 a.m., 1 a.m., noon, the odd hours are endless. But if you time it well you could get that one moment of peace and quiet.

9. College is like a box of chocolates, when you walk into a bathroom you really don't know what you're gonna get. And sometimes its just too much for the faint hearted.

10. College is the time to make big decisions, this is the time that people learn about who they are, and its also when we make really bad choices. those 5 tequila shots... Not such a good idea. That 27th slice of pizza, nope, that guy on second floor not at all.

11. We may all make bad decisions but don't let these bathrooms create your own personal prison. College is the beacon of freedom, and remains just that. You have the freedom to discover who you are, just because the bathrooms are way below par does not mean that your experience has to be!