Dorm Survival: Shower

7. Dorm Survival: Shower.

Showering is a simple thing right? You do it often. You can even get up half a sleep and shower. Your bathroom door locks for privacy.  Your shampoo and towel are always in the same place, Right?

What if the shower is down the hall and lots of other people use it too?

Say, you wake up a little late and stagger down to the shower. Where is your shampoo? Body wash? You get the idea.

Thinking back to the college tour what was the shower like? Down the hall? Or will you be lucky enough to share a shower with only a few people in a room or quad? (I still would not leave your belongings in a shared shower. They won’t be there when you get back, or if you are lucky, only half gone.)

Think about what do you actually need to shower?

1.       Shampoo, Conditioner, body wash? Anything else?

2.       How will you easily carry everything? (Gives a new focus to soap on a rope?)

3.       What will you wear to the shower? Just wrapping in a towel is a cry to jokesters to rip it off.

4.       What is the shower stall like. Tossing your dry towel over the door is also a call to jokesters to move it and enjoy the fun.

5.       Remember the shower is a good time to wash out a few things and reduce time spent watching a washer spin. Wash out as you begin your shower and hang to drip while you shower.

Think ahead and plan to have easy access to you what you enjoy using for a quick, fun shower.

Basic college needs: Sleep. Shower. Eat. Think. Relax. Exercise? Weather. Gear.

Oops. Almost forgot: Class. Studying, Books, Computer.