Well, we're going on our fifth week of college. Yay we've made it a whole month! By now, most of us have got the laundry figured out, but for some (I'm looking at you freshmen) laundry and the rules surrounding it are still a little fuzzy. Allow me to assist you with these five basic rules to doing your laundry at college:

1. Do not stare at the other person's underwear.

This should be self-explanatory, but I guess some people have never seen a thong before. If you're in the laundry room at the same time as someone else, and they're sorting their laundry into dry and don't (because lace lasts longer if you don't dry it) and you see them pulling out underwear, you do not stare. You do not comment. You put your head back down and go back to whatever it was you were doing. This is not a subtle signal that they want you to hit on them.

2. Rotate your laundry quickly

Nothing is more infuriating than timing your laundry perfectly to match up with the dryer, and then having the other person not show up. I am not above pulling your stuff out and putting it on top of the dryer. If you're lucky, you have MAYBE ten minutes grace period, but it's really just the polite thing to get your laundry out asap. Especially if it's Sunday, which leads us to...

3. Sunday is not laundry day

Do not wait in the laundry room for someone else to come in and then beg them for soap because you "forgot" yours. This is worse than the kid in class that pawns gum off someone every single day. You're in college. Bring your own soap.

5. Claim your stragglers

It's going to happen. You're going to leave your socks or underwear or some other article of clothing in the laundry room. Don't leave it there forever because you're too embarrassed to go get it. Just wait until the laundry room is empty and go get it. No one wants to see the same pair of Mickey Mouse boxers lying on the counter week after week.

6. Check your pockets

Nothing is worse than melted candy in the washer. There's already a limited number, and if you break one because you were too lazy to get the packet of whatever out of your pocket that then gunked up the pipes, you will become persona non grata very quickly. Just check your pockets, you never know maybe you'll find money.

7. Bonus Tip:

Delicate is the cold wash cycle. If you don't know what to wash your clothes as, the safest best is delicate (or, as it's noted on every other washer in existence besides dorm washers, cold wash).