Voices have gotten deeper, legs have gotten hairier, and the number of baseball caps has quadrupled. However, please do not assume that I am now about to explain how civilized the female population is. That part has not changed. A weekend s worth of toilet paper is still wadded up in every stall. Piles of paper towels still overflow the little garbage cans by the mirrors.
Toilets still go unflushed.
Hair still clogs every drain, and soap still drips down the wall. Civilized is not a word I would regularly use to describe dorm life. Random belching fests and lines of half-naked people all waiting to use the same shower are not considered normal in most cultures. But it really can t get much more fun than that. Regardless of how annoying the person s music was next door, or how many times the water main broke, or how often I had a 15 minute wait to bathe in the morning, I will never forget those first two years.