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Leave Dorm Life to the Boys
A girl loses her best friend when college comes around, her room. Her room provides her with the adequate beauty rest she needs and it’s a place where she gossips for hours about the handsome boy she saw at lunch. A girl’s room is also her special sanctuary that houses an inviting bed for when she comes home with hot tears streaming down her face because her best friend slept with her boyfriend. When college comes along, everything changes. College dorms are a female’s most awful enemy.
First of all, privacy is a privilege when living in a college dorm. Sharing a bathroom with other people, especially girls, appears as if a hurricane had just blown through. I can’t place a single foot in the door without stepping on disgusting feminine products or greasy loose hair gel. I could make a weave from the enormous amount of excess hair the drain swallows. Hair comes out by the foot whenever I attempt to clean the shower. The locks for the bathrooms are on the outside and not the inside of the doors, so your roommate or suitemate can barge in on you at anytime and get a sneak peak. When I am enjoying a soothing, hot shower after a demanding day of classes, I don’t want to fret about someone possibly receiving a show that neither they nor I want. There are six other eyes peering on you, like a hawk, at all times just waiting for their jump at the bathroom. As well as a crowded bathroom, the rooms themselves are jail cells. You have to force two beds in crowded area that only holds enough room for one. One window, with a rusty screen, is all that connects us to outside world. I am surprised there aren’t bars keeping us from escaping the tiny, white washed, twelve foot by twelve foot room. Our beds are so close together that if I topple out of my loft I am going to become more acquainted with my roommate then I would like to. Personal space is a privilege when living in the dorms.
As well as leaving little room for privacy, living in college dorms brings up the issue of sharing. Many people these days are greedy and don’t like sharing, especially girls. Living in college dorms your whole life is shared. Every day I walk into my dorm to find my flat iron screaming with heat because it had been used the five minutes before I got there. I am unable to have a ten minute phone conversation with my parents without someone saying, “Hey, get off the phone! I need to call my rents.” Sharing a dorm and bathroom with another girl is like sharing the same boyfriend. It’s something that no girl wants and creates cat fights. Unlike boys, girls are greatly attached to their property. If a boys shirt gets worn to shreds from playing football or stained because the guy borrowing it is a pig while eating; boys just go and buy a new one. Heaven forbid if a girl’s shirt gets the tiniest spec, even an eagle can’t see, on it. That girl will be asking for money so fast it’s as if it she just got paid. A busted dish here and cracked mirror there is all fine and dandy with the boys. If a girl were to arrive to her favorite coffee mug with a slight lip gloss smudge on the side she would have the CSI on the phone within two seconds.
Many females do not get along as is, so making four girls share a bathroom and two girls live together could potentially lead to a smack down. Personalities in girls are very different than those of boys, which makes it even harder for girls to live and cooperate with one another. It’s like sticking a cat and mouse in the same room and seeing if they will play nice. It does not work. Boys are more laid back and do not care what someone else says about them. Girls are more insecure and are always wondering what someone else is saying, especially if it’s another girl. One reason is because girls are gossip queens. Girls are always calling each other sluts and hoes behind each other’s back, so living with another girl leaves the question, “Is my roommate bad mouthing me? She probably is.” As well as gossiping about one another, girls judge each other before getting to know one another. One look and the girl has already classified the other as a slut or nerd just because she wears glasses or her shirt is cut a little low. If a “nerd” and a “diva” room together of course they are not going to get along. The diva’s look at me attitude would get washed up because she is associated with a nerd for a roommate. No football player wants to date a washed up diva.
In all, leave college dorm life to the boys. Boys don’t worry about privacy, sharing, and they seem to all get along. However, making a girl live the college dorm life could provoke a riot because of the lack of privacy, no girl wants to share, and girls simply just don’t get along. If this problem is to be solved girls should have their own rooms and bathrooms. Girls will only have to worry about stepping on their own personal items and can arrive home to an inviting bed that is all her own. Giving girls back their best friend will allow the drama caused by dorm life to wash away.
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