When you’re finally living on your own, you’ll come across a few gross things you would never encounter at home. Almost everyone has to endure the special kind of hell that is living in a dormitory during their freshman year of college. It’s a rite of passage and there’s no denying that you’ll be richer for the experience, but that doesn’t mean it’s all fun and games.
Living in a building with hundreds of other people who are barely legal adults lends itself to its own brand of grossness. You’ll most likely see all of these gross things during your first few months living in your dorm, but the good news is, after a while, you kind of become desensitized to it. Not to say its any less disgusting but the harsh realities of living with other human beings that were selected at random becomes the new normal.
Here a few things you would definitely see in a dormitory:
20. Abandoned underwear.
How is there always a random pair of underwear lying around in the stairwell? I suppose you can pretend that maybe it fell out of someone’s laundry basket, but that’s just a lie we tell ourselves to make it seem less gross.
19. Used condoms.
Why wouldn’t you just throw them away when you’re done? That’s just inconsiderate. And lazy.
18. Overflowing garbage.
College students simply generate too much trash for the maintenance staff to keep up with them. And when the trash can can no longer be stuffed with anything else, people will just start leaving their garbage on the floor next to the can.
17. Rotten food.
How long has that piece of pizza been there? Two days? Two weeks? No one knows. But at some point you gotta throw it out before you inhale mold.
16. Sticky floors.
Don’t go barefoot anywhere. Anywhere. Shower slippers are recommended for a reason. Save your poor feet the trouble of stepping into gross things.
