Bathrooms

Now, I touched on this in an earlier entry, but I thought it deserved more explanation. Now, I'm a very private person when it comes to stuff like this. The fact that RIT only has one bathroom per floor in the residence halls was the number 1 thing that made me apprehensive about applying. After being here for a week or so, let me say something: it's not that bad.

Now, I may be biased, since my dorm room is pretty much right across the hall from the bathrooms, but it really isn't that bad. The water pressure for the showers (at least in my building) is fantastic, so you're actually getting water sprayed at you, not trickled down from a rusted over shower head. The showers also get pretty hot (not to mention that turning the knob toward hot gives you hotter water, and turning it toward cold gives you colder water, a novelty for some colleges I could mention), which I'm sure will be incredibly convenient in the winter. You also have a pretty good amount of space in the shower stalls, so you can lay out your clothing and stuff. The main problem I could list is that there are only hooks, and no shelves or anything. This is especially bothersome in the actual "wet" zone of the showers, where you pretty much just have to put your shampoo and such on the floor. There is a dish for holding the soap, but...I'm not sure I trust it. All in all though, the showering experience is not as traumatizing as I thought it would be.

My only qualm with the bathrooms is really that the ones in the dorms don't have purse hooks. Seriously. There is no place to put your stuff. I guess don't bring any more than you can fit in your pockets. A problem that was at least in my dorm was that there were also no trashcans in the stalls, but if you have that problem (at any college, I'd assume) just talk to your RA about it. They should take care of it.