Like many other students I hate doing the laundry in college. It’s not because I am lazy, don’t have enough quarters (because IC laundry is free) or bad at doing it; it’s because the laundry room is a shark tank! For the past year in a half at IC, I fight week after week to secure a washer and dryer. Luckily this year I am in Emerson Hall, which has about nine washers and nine dryers, and so the battle has not been so bad. Plus, as a sophomore, I have finally figured out a time and a day in which the laundry room is pretty vacant (and because of my competitive laundry room nature I will not disclose this information). However last year, living as a freshman in Hilliard Hall, I had a very different laundry room experience.
 First let me start by stating that Hilliard Hall has two washers and three dryers and the building itself holds about 115 students. You can even tell that the math does not add up here, when it comes to the machine and student ratio. So on top of the limited machines, there were multiple times last year when either a washer or dryer was broken. These were some of the worst days ever because laundry is supposed to take two hours not four. To prove how desperate the situation was last year, a boy who lived in my dorm asked me if we could combine our clothes in the only available dryer. I was already putting my clothes in the dryer and so I told him flat out no. To me sharing a machine with a complete stranger, with all of our clothes rolling around together is gross.
 Whenever I do my laundry I have to stay in my dorm to make sure I can arrive in the laundry room at least three minutes before, or else my clothes will go on the machines! This also means socks go missing and strange hands violate your newly washed clothes. We can all agree that watching someone else take your clothes out of the dryer is extremely awkward, but we all do it anyway (especially me). Plus when you do not arrive at your machine at the right time you screw everyone else’s system up. For instance, both this year and last year I had to wait in the laundry room 20 minutes so that I can get a dryer while guarding my dripping wet clothes on top of the machines. There are also those students who leave their clothes in the laundry for weeks. The smart resident director of Emerson Hall decided to donate those clothes to charity the week before Thanksgiving Break, and there were more clothes than you would expect.
 As I previously mentioned in the article, I finally found a time and day to do my laundry and I am so happy about that. However last year, my problems were my frequent because, although I did it once a week, I never chose a specific time and day. One week I wanted to do my laundry before I went to my 10:00 am class. I woke up at six thinking no one would be in there but of course, I saw a girl placing her clothes in the washer as soon as I walked in the room. Ever since then I never woke up early for laundry again.
 I am so glad that I am finally writing this article because I clearly have strong feelings about this situation. I especially felt this way when I did my laundry the night before Thanksgiving Break, so I did not have to do it after, and all those Hilliard laundry room feelings came back. The running to the washer, the other students panting down your back as they wait for your machine, and the clothes falling as you carry them from the dryer to the washer.
In the laundry room I am one of those sharks and I am ruthless; I will put your clothes on top of the washer, I will be in the laundry room way before time is up, and I will protect my clothing.