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It's a single bathroom, but it might have more than one shower installed. Are shared bathrooms really that big a deal?

• wongarsu 5y ago
  Apparently I read the plan wrong, and it's actually two bathrooms with one shower each [1, page 39]. Which is better, but still cramped. Sharing bathrooms is fine in principle, but with more than one per two people you start coordinating who has to wake up when to use it, and it gets worse the more people you have that want to go to class at the same time. 1: https://www.dfss.ucsb.edu/sites/default/files/docs/dcs/DRC%20Meeting%20Packet%2010.05.21.pdf https://www.dfss.ucsb.edu/sites/default/files/docs/dcs/DRC%2...
  • tzs 5y ago
    I'm not so sure that it would be all that bad even if it was just one shower per 7 people, based on my recollection of my college days. I believe my house at Caltech has on average maybe 7-10 people per shower room, with each shower room having 2 or 3 shower stalls. However, in four years there of showering at least once a day I only once ever had someone come in and use one of the other stalls when I was showering. People tended to try to avoid shower rooms that already had a stall in use and were almost always successful at this. For the first two years, most people who lived in the parts of the house that I did and so would be competitors for the showers I would most likely use were in most of the same classes as me, because (1) the first two years of Caltech had a lot of core classes that everyone had to take, (2) room picks in my house were mostly by seniority, (3) rooms tended to be near other rooms of similar desirability and so people tended to have rooms near people in their year.