Shower experience in dorms could be improved, be more efficient

After a long day of classes, the one thing I look forward to is a nice shower. Unfortunately at USD, showers actually make life a bit more difficult.

For starters, there is poor water pressure in USD showers. How do you expect me to rinse all of the conditioner out of my hair? I need a little water pressure so I can get the grease out of my hair and keep it out for at least a day.

I’m a busy college student who likes sleep. With the way the shower pressure in the dorms is, you almost have to shower twice a day to keep the grease away. I like going to shower and actually feeling clean afterwards. After a long day of school I would like a place to relax. That doesn’t really happen when the shower is a mist and I can barely feel it. Showers should leave you feeling calm and refreshed, not feeling like you’ve been spat on.

While you are showering, everything gets wet because the shower curtain doesn’t reach all the way across the shower opening. It’s great to know that when you take a shower everything will be just as drenched as you are when you get out. I know some people use the bench to set their shower caddy on and then get their products out of it. Perhaps if there were shelves inside the shower this would help alleviate the problem.

It doesn’t stop there. When you get out of the shower you don’t even have a place to put on clothes and dry off without everything getting wet. For example, say you try to dry your legs but drop the towel. Good luck getting dry now since that towel is now soaked because the shower curtain didn’t shield the water from getting everywhere. The curtain is hardly a barrier.

One problem that I thankfully haven’t had this year is the showers being too cold. North Complex, where I lived last year, was rarely ever warm. If it was, it was normally so hot it could actually burn you. I’m glad this has not happened yet and hopefully it will not be a problem.

It would be great if the university could install some shower curtains wide and long enough to cover the entire opening.  Also, it would be useful if there was a lip, or a barrier, between inside the shower and outside the shower so the water would stay inside the shower instead of going everywhere.

To help increase the pressure, they could clean all of the calcium and limescale off of the shower heads.  That buildup is probably most of the problem with the water pressure.  If those things were fixed, then taking a shower would be even more enjoyable.