u/avaisanintrovert227

I was just looking at my schedule again for the first time since I enrolled and my classes on Monday and Tues/Thurs are showing me a time conflict because there are classes each of those days that are only ten minutes apart. Everything is on the same campus and my advisor said it's fine, but that was before I received info on the locations and I'd like some reassurance from a student who has had this kind of thing that it's possible. I'm not so worried about Monday because those are in the same building, but the ones on Tues/Thurs are in neighboring buildings and I assume different floors. Is that too much? I am transferring from another university and at my old place there were times when I needed to be early to a class and I couldn't do that with this schedule without leaving a different one early. Also are exams on a separate schedule than classes? I just don't want to be late especially for important tests and I have zero experience living in a city like this and I reeeeally don't want to have to rearrange my whole schedule this late in the game. Idk these quarter system schedules just seem so hectic and difficult...

I've been looking into laser because I despise shaving but am somewhat hairy in areas. I want to do underarms, brazilian, and legs (but the first two mandatory) and I have very very pale skin and very dark, pretty thick hair. I'm going to be in between the Chicago suburbs and downtown Chicago, so I'm looking at Milan because it has ideal locations and reviews, but the potential price is concerning based on what other people say.

I booked a consultation to get a quote in a few weeks, but if I'm kinda the optimal candidate with my skin/hair color combo, should I be looking somewhere cheaper? I don't know the difference between the lasers places use and I just want the hair off asap. Money isn't too terrible of a problem but over 10k is just a no for me in my situation...

I never post stuff like this, but it's almost one in the morning and everyone is asleep so I'm just going to vent in here about it while I wait for the laundry machine...

For background, I (19F) am a college student and I currently live in a dorm that is apartment style, so I have my own bedroom but share a pretty decent sized bathroom with a roommate. The bathroom has a toilet and sink on one side, and a shower (no tub) on the opposite side, with a door in between---close to the shower. This is important.

I have been sick for almost the past week and it has been complete HELL. It is the week before finals for me, so my brain was already mush to begin with, but this illness is seriously taking me out. It started last weekend (It's 1 am Friday rn) when my body felt so heavy I basically didn't move all weekend and just watched movies and chilled. Then on Monday came the Cough. Since Monday I have not been able to stop coughing for more than a few minutes and it's been driving me fucking nuts. Yesterday and today the Cough eased, but with it came a complete loss of my voice and the worst most awful runny and stuffy nose I've had in a while. On top of this cold, it is pollen season here. Where I live, the pollen is so bad it coats everything in a film of yellowish green, and my allergy to it is so bad that I can't even eat fruit without having a reaction. I thought allergy medicine would save me, but I haven't felt relief all day. But whether it's my allergies or the illness causing it, the point is that I'm utterly miserable and my nose is killing me.

Anyway, I wanted to go to bed early tonight because I have very important classes tomorrow, so naturally I googled how to get rid of this awful shit. It said that besides drinking water, it's a good idea to get some warm humidity and chill with a warm wet cloth on my face. I was going to just take a shower and do it that way, but I shower in the mornings and I had already done my night routine and put on the last pimple patch I have for a particularly stubborn chin zit, so I didn't really want to do a whole shower.

But because clearly I'm a genius, I thought of a very clever solution. My bathroom has no ventilation at all. I hate it because nothing dries properly like it does at home, but in this case, if I just ran a hot shower and sat on the toilet, I could still be immersed in the humidity and heat without actually getting in the shower, right?

Yeah. Right.

So I went to the shower and cranked the knob all the way to the left until it went past the H, and I sat my happy ass down on the toilet and scrolled my phone.

I was waiting for quite a while when I saw out of the corner of my eye something moving on the floor. I freaked out for a minute because I thought it was a big roach or palmetto bug or something and I'm deathly afraid, but I calmed down when I realized it was just a clump of my roommates hair floating toward the door....

FLOATING???

I ran to the shower and turned it off but the damage was done. The disgusting bathmat my roommate never washes was completely soaked through, and although the water wasn't insanely high, it was EVERYWHERE! It had gotten on my pants, so I took them off and went to run across the hallway in my panties to my room. I wanted to quickly change and throw the wet pants into the laundry because god knows how nasty that floor and bathmat water is. That bathmat is seriously disgusting you guys omg. However as soon as I stepped foot outside the bathroom I stopped dead in my tracks, suddenly feeling the urge to cry!

The water had not only flooded my bathroom, but it was creeping its way down my hallway and slightly into my room too. For god knows how long, I might add. I grabbed towels, but I only own three shitty ones, so I had to grab my nice blanket from my chair and use that too.

I mopped up most of everything, but of course I'm some dumbass college kid, so I have no idea how bad it might actually be. It looks ok, but it's very humid where I live and like I said there's no ventilation in the bathroom, so for all I know I might wake up to a shit ton of mold in my dorm. I move out in maybe two weeks and I'm shitting myself at the idea of having to pay for water damage on top of the arm and leg I'm already paying out of pocket.

I put my towels and blankets in the wash, and I finally threw out that horrible fucking bathmat, so now instead of going to bed early and getting a good nights sleep, I'm waiting for the washer to be done so I can put my shit in the dryer.

Questions yall might have:

How did this possibly happen?

Well, like an idiot, I just reached my hand in and turned on the water blindly, so I missed the fact that the long shower curtain had covered the open drain and essentially turned my ankle deep shower into a nice little kiddie pool...

How tf did you not notice it was flooding until it was too late?

Yeah so I'm pretty blind. My prescription isn't that strong but it's strong enough that I need glasses to drive and to see anything more than say 4 or 5 feet in front of me clearly, so water on the floor 5ft away is not something I can see until it does something like make something move or reflect the light on the tile weirdly. With the darkness too, I didn't even notice it had flooded the hallway until I stepped in it.

Pictures?

I thought about that but I was racing to much to mop everything up to think about documenting, although it's a bit of a shame since this might be funny in a few years. Also I should've taken a pic of how fucking disgusting that bathmat is but I also disposed of it down the trash chute as quickly as possible and then scrubbed my hands with dish soap, hand soap, and then hand sanitizer for good measure.

That bathmat was so gross...

Did it work?

Unfortunately... yeah kinda... but it was right as it was really kicking in that I noticed the water and stopped it, so minimal relief overall and I'm still stuffy and runny.

Feel free to ask more questions or offer advice although idk if I'll even look back at this since I hardly use reddit ever. I just needed to write this down so I don't think it's some fucked up dream caused by delirium.

TL;DR: I tried to cure my runny nose with a hot shower and my blindness caused me to end up flooding my dorm at midnight