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Conjunctivitis spreads like loving wildfire on college campuses. Wash your hands, kids.
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Mar 18, 2014 18:04
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ToxicSlurpee posted:One thing I don't get is that colleges occasionally start having disease-related trouble that only comes up when you have overcrowding, that just get worse when you have unsanitary conditions (like every college dorm, ever), but are trying to pack even more kids into college dorms. Like hey, let's see what happens when we indirectly force meningitis outbreaks to happen. Hell yeah! Does your school not require current vaccines? I remember having to submit health paperwork before living in the dorms freshman year to prevent meningitis outbreaks.
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Mar 18, 2014 18:14
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Big Grunty Secret posted:Does your school not require current vaccines? I remember having to submit health paperwork before living in the dorms freshman year to prevent meningitis outbreaks. all they ask is for dates of the inoculation on my campus, they don't ask for any sort of proof. you can even just write in unknown
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Mar 18, 2014 20:50
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ToxicSlurpee posted:One thing I don't get is that colleges occasionally start having disease-related trouble that only comes up when you have overcrowding, that just get worse when you have unsanitary conditions (like every college dorm, ever), but are trying to pack even more kids into college dorms. Like hey, let's see what happens when we indirectly force meningitis outbreaks to happen. Hell yeah! My dorms required proof of meningitis vaccination before moving in precisely because the close quarters makes it easier to spread/contract. The common areas weren't absolute shitholes either, but that's probably because our dorms were apartment-style, so there were like 3 people sharing a bathroom, max, and 6 max sharing a kitchen, plus RAs had to do monthly health and safety inspections on their floor. Maintenance was pretty good about coming to fix things too, you just submitted the work order online.
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Mar 18, 2014 20:54
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karl fungus posted:How does a unisex bathroom work? Is it just all stalls, or are they just single-occupant rooms? My undergrad didn't become coed until 1980 so while all the dorm bathrooms were coed, they were all former men's rooms with stalls, urinals, and showers. It was incredibly convenient.
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Mar 18, 2014 20:54
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I wish whoever the hell that drat Structural engineer student on the floor we have our group room, would stop eating rotten herings or whatever the hell causes that awful smell. The price of Unisex toilets, turns out everyone makes a loving mess, gender sure doesn't matter much.
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Mar 18, 2014 20:56
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Big Grunty Secret posted:Does your school not require current vaccines? I remember having to submit health paperwork before living in the dorms freshman year to prevent meningitis outbreaks. My college only REQUIRED you to actually hand in the vaccination paperwork if you were a nursing student. You were required to have proof of certain vaccinations if you wanted to actually get a teaching degree. Other than that they didn't even require the paper be handed in. I couldn't find my records on such things so I just handed in the sheet with all of that blank. Ensuring that you had a meningitis vaccination was merely "recommended" if you were living in the dorms. Which I never did. I commuted. But still...our dorms are not apartment style and they're always filthy. I'm surprised nobody has died.
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Mar 18, 2014 21:19
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RagnarokZ posted:turns out everyone makes a loving mess, gender sure doesn't matter much. I used to clean a college bar every night and can verify this. You're all filthy fucks, regardless of what's between your legs or which restroom you use. What the denizens of the ladies' rooms make up for by being able to aim slightly more accurately (do not interpret that as any implication that they don't piss, poo poo, and vomit everywhere like anyone else) is negated by their constant marking up of the walls with the sickest poo poo imaginable about each other. Seriously, what compels someone to sit down to piss and simultaneously pen a hundred word essay about how many abortions Suzy Smith had from how many fathers? poo poo's nasty, yo.
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Mar 18, 2014 23:02
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GOTTA STAY FAI posted:Conjunctivitis spreads like loving wildfire on college campuses. I almost never get sick because I wash my hands probably way too much and I keep away from people who are coughing and such. It still drives me nuts that drat near no one seems to know how to wash their hands. Everyone who I see washing their hands next to me will put some of the foam soap on their dry hands, rinse it off immediately, and then "lather" water for a few seconds. Why even bother?
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Mar 18, 2014 23:32
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BattleMaster posted:Why even bother? Because they think that's how you wash your hands? How are you supposed to? Farecoal has a new favorite as of 03:12 on Mar 19, 2014 |
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Mar 19, 2014 01:02
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What are you supposed to do when someone leaves their wet clothes in the washer? Can you just put it on top of the washer like normal clothes? I was thinking about this since I went into the laundry room today and discovered that all 6 washers were available. So just out of pure spite and actual need (I haven't washed my sheets in a while), I used every single washer.
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Mar 19, 2014 02:32
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Group projects, ugh. 3/4 of the people I have to work with are horrible; one hasn't been to class in a month, one would rather check facebook than do any work, and another is so computer illiterate that she doesn't even know how to make text appear in italics in loving word documents. There's one other person in the group who seems reliable, and we're strongly considering doing all the work ourselves so the other three don't gently caress it all to hell.
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Mar 19, 2014 02:33
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A White Guy posted:What are you supposed to do when someone leaves their wet clothes in the washer? Can you just put it on top of the washer like normal clothes? usually there's a 5 minute grace period then your free to remove them.
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Mar 19, 2014 02:38
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A White Guy posted:What are you supposed to do when someone leaves their wet clothes in the washer? Can you just put it on top of the washer like normal clothes? How many people is this room supposed to serve? We've got 30 washers and dryers in our laundromat.
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Mar 19, 2014 02:43
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Kavak posted:How many people is this room supposed to serve? We've got 30 washers and dryers in our laundromat. Dorms at my undergraduate has something like 10 of each for a dorm of over 1000 people. Suffice to say I did most of my laundry at home/off-campus.
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Mar 19, 2014 02:50
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Nostalgia4Infinity posted:Dorms at my undergraduate has something like 10 of each for a dorm of over 1000 people.  Holy mother of god.We've got 6 washers + 6 dryers for around 150+ odd people (this one serves just the building). It's get pretty busy on Sunday/Saturday, but during the week, it's pretty empty.
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Mar 19, 2014 02:58
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Back when I dormed out I just did my laundry in the early AM hours. I still do it even though I live at home now. You might think, "who the gently caress does the laundry at 2 AM?" and that's exactly the point.
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Mar 19, 2014 03:23
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karl fungus posted:Back when I dormed out I just did my laundry in the early AM hours. I still do it even though I live at home now. You might think, "who the gently caress does the laundry at 2 AM?" and that's exactly the point. I think that's why they keep them open to 1 AM here.
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Mar 19, 2014 03:28
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I do my laundry at 3 AM, ya'll are wussies. 
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Mar 19, 2014 03:54
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Farecoal posted:Because they think that's how you wash your hands? How are you supposed to? You lather the soap before you rinse it off. Soap doesn't do anything if you just rinse it off instantly without latering and spreading it around, and rubbing water on your skin doesn't really do anything to pathogens. Edit: Normally I wouldn't care but I have to touch things that people who don't wash their hands properly/at all rub feces/mucous/flu viruses on :/ BattleMaster has a new favorite as of 04:35 on Mar 19, 2014 |
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Mar 19, 2014 04:32
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A White Guy posted:
Yeah it was bullshit.
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Mar 19, 2014 04:42
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All this dorm talk made me go look at my old dorm's page on our website, and I had another laugh. Some real aspect-ratio stretching deception going on here. The picture on the left is the actual cube sized sink for a double occupancy room, and the picture on the right is what housing wants you to think it looks like.
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Mar 20, 2014 05:34
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I had to sit in the laundry room of my old dorm because my underwear would mysteriously disappear out of the washers and dryers if I wasn't in there the one semester. Never figured out who would want ratty, stained old panties but hey, it at least gave me an excuse to go buy nicer ones. Now I live in an apartment 10 min away from the dorms and even if students puke or piss in the stairwells on weekends I don't have to worry about people taking anything from the laundry room.
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Mar 20, 2014 17:51
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Horrible Smutbeast posted:I had to sit in the laundry room of my old dorm because my underwear would mysteriously disappear out of the washers and dryers if I wasn't in there the one semester. Never figured out who would want ratty, stained old panties but hey, it at least gave me an excuse to go buy nicer ones. I've never understood this, they're clean, so... why not just buy some if you really want panties that badly?
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Mar 20, 2014 18:01
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Austrian mook posted:I've never understood this, they're clean, so... why not just buy some if you really want panties that badly? The fact that they'd been worn at all is why they were stolen, I think  .
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Mar 20, 2014 18:02
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it would be really nice if the on campus convenience store was open during spring break for those of us who stay on campus. I'm not even asking for full time service an hour a day would be fine do it during the same reduced hours of the building's front desk.
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Mar 20, 2014 19:57
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Shuffle posted:it would be really nice if the on campus convenience store was open during spring break for those of us who stay on campus. I'm not even asking for full time service an hour a day would be fine do it during the same reduced hours of the building's front desk. Ours was open. Unfortunately, my school's store is like a Soviet dispensary that can only reliably stock pizza,cereal, and milk. They've had this nasty rear end holiday popcorn stuff on sale since I arrived at the school, which is going on 7 months ago.
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Mar 22, 2014 02:58
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Nostalgia4Infinity posted:Dorms at my undergraduate has something like 10 of each for a dorm of over 1000 people. My current dorm has one washer and dryer per floor. There's about 70 people on each floor. Our washer breaks constantly. Needless to say, I usually end up doing my laundry at 1 A.M.
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Mar 26, 2014 21:01
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Fat_Cow posted:Blackboard is the devil's program. "You can stop and resume this test later", so I open it up and glance at some questions before leaving for work, come back and it is 8 hours overdue, I loving hate Blackboard.
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Mar 26, 2014 23:22
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Astrofig posted:I loving hate Blackboard.  /sympathetic hug to people without a nice electronic submission system like CROPS. By the way, what the hell is your red text from?
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Mar 26, 2014 23:25
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Astrofig posted:I loving hate Blackboard. It's the worst
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Mar 26, 2014 23:37
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Every prof I've ever had that used Blackboard actually said through clenched teeth that the assignment is on Blackboard (because administration wants them to use it).
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Mar 27, 2014 00:26
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We have an in-house online homework site that I actually like, called Moodle. It's alright, as far as clunky online submission sites go. I've reached the point where I expect teachers to post things like syllabuses and assignments online. The one course that doesn't do this makes me  .
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Mar 27, 2014 05:17
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A White Guy posted:We have an in-house online homework site that I actually like, called Moodle. It's alright, as far as clunky online submission sites go. Moodle is pretty common, it's not really the same sort of thing as blackboard and mastering X though.
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Mar 27, 2014 05:23
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Aerofallosov posted:Or that some people freak out that 'omg that MAN is using the woman's bathroom' or vice versa From my limited experience this stops being a thing two weeks into college, where everyone stops giving a poo poo and goes to whatever bathroom is closest to their dorm room. I am not going to pretend I really understand what it is like for trans individuals however, but my college is pretty liberal. Also, we have a serial masturbater in the guys bathroom who used to leave his cum all over the urinals according to some of my unfortunate guy friends, as well as what is apparently (I hope!!) a ventilation problem because I walked into the laundry room one night and it smelled literally like poo poo in there. e: We have 2 washers and dryers (and the dryers take twice as long as the washers of course) for about 90 people, which is why the fact that someone may or may not have poo poo inside them is even more of a problem. SC Bracer has a new favorite as of 06:22 on Mar 27, 2014 |
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Mar 27, 2014 06:19
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Improbable Lobster posted:It's the worst Had a prof demand that we use the discussion feature as part of our grade. Wanted to strangle that motherfucker.
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Mar 27, 2014 21:57
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I had one class where a woman would bring a plastic shopping bag that she would spit phlegm into. All period long you could hear her hocking, spitting, and the tiny sound of the phlegm hitting the bag.  No one ever sat next to her since it was so gross, except for one guy who moved seats after about 5 minutes of this. I always tried to strategically find a seat as far from her as possible, but there was no escaping that sound. Another time, in a freshman computer science class, some shitbag sitting next to me was browsing pictures of corpses on Rotten.com. I actually had to threaten to tattle on him to the teacher to make him stop.
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Mar 28, 2014 00:09
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The new alerts system on Blackboard does nothing other than piss me off. I like that we can see new content added for all courses on one page in a list, that's cool and convenient. Except for the fact that it doesn't contain any loving links to the full post within the courses' sites. I have a 'program site' where tons and tons of stuff gets posted for everyone in my degree to see. I saw something that looked really interesting today, wanted to read it even though it didn't really apply to me for the time being. I can't find it. Pieces of poo poo who designed this garbage, I swear.
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Mar 28, 2014 01:45
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My chemistry professor had an obsession with butane and used it for demonstrations throughout the semester. The first day of class he almost lit a girls hair on fire by igniting too much of it. The next class everyone moved to the 2nd and 3rd rows of desks.
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Mar 28, 2014 03:42
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My philosophy textbook was a selection of essays regarding different subjects. No questions to answer, nor even an introduction. Just essays, which are probably hosted somewhere on the internet for free. I paid $10 to read a bunch of old men arguing about opinions and metaphors when there's a perfectly good Facebook for that. At least it was $90 cheaper than my psychology
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Mar 28, 2014 07:35
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