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Tuesday, August 30, 2011

The Dorm Life

I live in Cabaniss, a freshmen dorm on the MCV of VCU. It was not on my list of choices when I payed my housing deposit back in May, but since I signed up so late, I was put in this dorm because all of the other dorms were filled.  My assignment was two weeks late, so I was just excited to have finally gotten my housing assignment. 
This dorm is actually okay in my opinion.  It's quiet (on some days; the other days are a different story).  The big problem is that this dorm has communial bathrooms.  I do not like this at all.  Now at first, I thought that this would not be that bad, but after a few days, I understood what the complaints were about. 
The bathrooms are disgusting! Hair in the showers, sinks are dirty.  I can just imagine the bacteria in the showers and toilet stalls.  Eww. As you can probably already tell, I am a germophobe, so I take extra caution whenever I enter that horrid bathroom: I always take a bag with me to put my clothes in whenever I go to take a shower or get changed (I actually stole this idea from my roommate) instead of putting it on the seat in the shower stall and I wear my shower shoes while in the shower.  I even have went so far as to look up extra precautions so I can be even more prepared.

Enough about the bathroom.   Let's talk about the noise (remember I said the other days were a different story).  Well, last night, I was doing a little reading for my Mass Comm class, which was due today.  In just five minutes, the 7th floor of Cabaniss (the floor I stay on) went from being semi-quiet to loud! People were talking really loudly, cussing, yelling, it was ridiculous! I wanted to do this:


But, of course, I didn't.  I just waited for them to call down.  You would think I would be used to it with  aunt having six kids and all of them yelling and screaming through the house whenever I visited (which I did every week). At least there I could get them to quiet down, but here? No.  Not my job or place.
This is only the 2nd or 3rd week.  I don't even want to know what will happen in the upcoming months.

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