stupid hall shower question

[Anonymous]

If he can't figure this out, he can't figure out college. Or life.

[Anonymous]

Hall bath (cleaned daily by professional housekeeping staff) is almost certainly cleaner than suite baths (cleaned occasionally by student and roommates).

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Anonymous wrote:So, I've sent my kids to numerous pools, camps and colleges and never knew that you were supposed to wear shower shoes IN the shower. I thought you just wore them TO and FROM the shower. I don't know that I've ever talked to them about the shoes, so I have know idea if someone set them straight at some point.
I did teach them to dry their feet after their shower. No warts or fungal infections so far.

SMH...

Not only do you pick up warts and other fungal infections from showers but also doing barefoot sports like Tae Kwon do. That’s where my son got it

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We had rubber mats we stepped out on as we got out of the shower.

Frankly I loved hall bathrooms (I'm female). You met so many more people and had nice interactions. It's a great way to meet people and not feel so lonely at college. You usually move to an apartment by junior or senior year when coursework is really hard and you need to study.

I agree with this 100% (I'm male). We had a very close floor and I'm sure the hall bath had a lot to do with that. I met a number of life long friends in that bathroom.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:We had rubber mats we stepped out on as we got out of the shower.

Frankly I loved hall bathrooms (I'm female). You met so many more people and had nice interactions. It's a great way to meet people and not feel so lonely at college. You usually move to an apartment by junior or senior year when coursework is really hard and you need to study.

I agree with this 100% (I'm male). We had a very close floor and I'm sure the hall bath had a lot to do with that. I met a number of life long friends in that bathroom.

You two should meet.

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Anonymous wrote:You are in for a long, long year if this is the type of stuff you are worrying about.

Not really. My kids have had three rounds of plantar’s warts. Ever hold a kid down while a plastic surgeon tries to cut out an unexpectedly deep colony of warts under a topical anesthetia? You don’t

Wrong doctor. A podiatrist is the correct doctor. IME, they inject something into the wart and your body takes care of the rest.

Wrong opinion. Severe recalcitrant plantar warts need surgical extraction plus you
must get the entire colony (difficult to assess the bleeding) or tge colony just rebuilds itself. So you need a nurse practitioner there sucking if the blood). Most podiatrists I’ve been too don’t have a nurse practitioner to do tgat (and their offices aren’t sterile because of the nail cuttings).. Go read “treatment of Plantar Warts” in wiki. What you are describing is stage 2 treatment after stage 1 topicals didn’t work. DD was beyond stage 4 and needed a good surgeon. She was on crutches work weeks after. A podiatrist is not an MD. btw. My DW and I were there holding DD’s hand throughout the procedure. If I could do it over both we and the plastic surgeon agreed we would have done it under general anesthesia in a hospital. It was that painful to our DD. She screamed for -5 minutes throughout the procedure.

This sounds cuckoo. If you were so worried about shared bathrooms, why did you send your kid to this school?

As for the grotesque wart stuff, take it to the medical forum.

a) not coo coo ( learn to spell)

It’s “cuckoo,” like the bird.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cuckoo

Let’s not mistake anxiety for intelligence.

[Anonymous]

We had a hall bathroom and there were always guys who thought it was the Funniest Thing Ever to swipe your towel while you were in the shower so you had to walk down the hall naked to your dorm room (where the towel was hanging on your doorknob).

[Anonymous]

I went to three years of boarding school and four years of college and always showered with bare feet. Never got fungal infections or warts or whatever. People are just manufacturing things to worry about.

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Anonymous wrote:NP here. Thanks. Neither my husband nor I ever experienced US college communal living. Sounds gross. This country is so rich, why on earth are dorms so uncomfortable and weird?
Oxford has a lot of private rooms and ensuite baths.

So send your child there

LOL. This was my thought!

OP, I’d you are unhappy about this, maybe Oxford is a better option for your child?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I went to three years of boarding school and four years of college and always showered with bare feet. Never got fungal infections or warts or whatever. People are just manufacturing things to worry about.

Thanks ever so much for joining this thread! Your personal experience surely trumps all the other posts here from people who've had the exact opposite experience and had to get kids treatment or surgery for plantar warts etc. traced to showers, sports etc. Guess they were just "manufacturing" all those fictional doctor visits and bills, right?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Hall bath (cleaned daily by professional housekeeping staff) is almost certainly cleaner than suite baths (cleaned occasionally by student and roommates).

ha...yup...my daughter lived in a dorm with a communal bathroom freshman year, and then a suite bathroom shared between 4 students sophomore year. thought she'd much prefer the suite bathroom, but then said...I miss not having to clean the bathroom!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I went to three years of boarding school and four years of college and always showered with bare feet. Never got fungal infections or warts or whatever. People are just manufacturing things to worry about.

Thanks ever so much for joining this thread! Your personal experience surely trumps all the other posts here from people who've had the exact opposite experience and had to get kids treatment or surgery for plantar warts etc. traced to showers, sports etc. Guess they were just "manufacturing" all those fictional doctor visits and bills, right?

Honestly, though — if people have to hear your anecdote then why not mine? If there is a 1% chance of surgery (!) and a 99% chance of no problems, shouldn’t people get to hear about it? Or are we thinking that vast numbers of college students face foot surgery every year?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So, I've sent my kids to numerous pools, camps and colleges and never knew that you were supposed to wear shower shoes IN the shower. I thought you just wore them TO and FROM the shower. I don't know that I've ever talked to them about the shoes, so I have know idea if someone set them straight at some point.
I did teach them to dry their feet after their shower. No warts or fungal infections so far.

+1 on to/from. You dry your feet before putting your feet in the sandals. At 18 you should be able to balance on one foot while towling off the other foot. Indeed, you should be able to do that at 50 or 60 as well, and if you can't practice until you can.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I went to three years of boarding school and four years of college and always showered with bare feet. Never got fungal infections or warts or whatever. People are just manufacturing things to worry about.

Lucky you. both of my kids got warts. Google it. https://home.howstuffworks.com/community-living/can-you-get-athletes-foot-from-dorm-shower.htm

[Anonymous]

Reminding me of the showers we had in my all-male dorm which, in our refined way of speaking, we called "gang bang showers." Just a big room with six shower heads. You focused on the wall and did not take leisurely showers.

I think people were kind of hit or miss with shower shoes back then. I was pretty diligent about thoroughly drying my feet, however.