The bathroom situation, needless to say, is atrocious. Buildings will have one stall in one bathroom for one gender for one floor. If you want to use that teeny bathroom with the foggy mirrors and cracked floor between classes, well, good luck. Especially if you’re a girl. Being stuck at the door keeping it awkwardly open because you cannot lose your spot in line while there are 2 minutes before class and all you need to do is change your tampon is not my idea of fun.
So since coming to college one of my favorite past times has become discovering where the best bathrooms on campus are.
I keep this running log in my head. The checklist is:
- Lots of stalls or generally not well used
- Clean toilets
- Nice tiling
- Full length mirror (this is a huge plus)
- Well-lit
- Less than fifteen years old (as far as I can tell)
The trick is actually committing to the list. Once I’ve singled out the best bathrooms for use, I go out of my way to use those bathrooms whenever I can. If nothing else, it’s a good excuse to stop sitting around and get up (even if it means crossing campus to get to the business school).
Objectively, the best bathrooms are the big ones (like the one in the business school) because you’re nearly always guaranteed a stall and no infernal wait when you go in. But my personal favorite bathrooms are the little undiscovered ones—the ones that are exactly the same on every floor of the building (what?? A building with bathrooms for both genders on every floor??) and have one or two stalls each. If someone is using one bathroom, I just go up or down a floor and the exact same tiny cute bathroom will be there waiting for me.
You can almost—almost—forget that it’s been weeks since you’ve used a non-public toilet. And when urination is not the order of the day, let me tell you these tiny unused bathrooms are your friends.
-Walnut
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