After having a room (and bathroom) to myself for most of my life, moving into my dorm was my worst nightmare. After I got accepted, I picked dorm choices. Guess what? The dorm I got wasn't even on my list. Guess what I got stuck with? COMMUNITY BATHROOMS. With that being said, here's a rundown on what my life has looked like this year.
This is your reaction when you and your roommate pass that girl on your hall that everyone hates.
This girl is just plain rude. She never speaks. She has people over all the time. Unfortunately, you have the same schedule so you see her ALL the time. Hey girl, let's put a smile on that face and give everyone a nice 'hey' everyone once and a while.
Living in a dorm that has community bathrooms can make you realize how disgusting girls are.
The disgusting scale is very wide. It starts at girls leaving you gifts in the bathroom stalls, and I'm not talking about #2. It ends with girls leaving hair from their razors on the shower walls. Somewhere in the middle is girls throwing up on a Thursday night at 2 a.m.
Not having your kitchen around the corner is a struggle.
There's no sink or kitchen supplies in your room. If you go to a dining hall, you better take everything that you may possibly need, because you're only making that trip once. If you're ordering in, the walk downstairs is still hard sometimes. (I know... judge me. There's an elevator.) Either way, you can't go wrong, because you're getting food and what college kid doesn't love that?
Learning what stalls work best is they to success.
It's hard to shave in a tiny shower stall to begin with, but when you factor in the freezing/boiling water that's hitting you, that's a different story. If you can survive more than 2 minutes in a 'bad' shower, you're not human. When you walk into the bathroom and you see 'YOUR' shower is open, you run to it and happy dance when the door is locked.
There's no privacy.
In the comfort of your own home, you have safety and security. No one will judge you for your ugly night time routine or what you look like when you make up for your 8 am, but when you live with 30 other girls on your hall, this may be what you turn into.
There will be fire alarms that go off at 2:30 am.
You're sleeping peacefully, because you stayed up until 1:45 studying for your HUGE 8 am test the next morning. You can believe you're actually going to get 6 hours of sleep. The loudest noise you've ever heard starts. Yup, you're taking yourself outside, because 'it's unsafe to stay inside.'
Unfortunately, being in such close proximity with the same people, they learn your ways.
You're with the same people day in and day out. They see you at your best and they see you at your worst. There's no hiding anything from them.
