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My dorm had vermin too. That was the hardest thing to deal with. The typical freshman dorms were single gender and I was NOT going to be caught dead living in an all girls dorm. So, I carefully crafted my answers on the residence hall questionnaire to ensure that I got placed in the International dorm, the only other dorm where freshman could live. We had kitchens, it was open year round and through breaks so you could stay on campus and work if you needed to. Problem is, during breaks and summer is when they exterminated the other dorms. Mine never got a full extermination treatment. They would spray your room when you complained about roaches and the little critters would run next door for safety. When that room got sprayed, they'd come back to yours. Ick. We had mice rampant at one point too, but they did get those under control pretty fast. Due to the kitchens, and it being the international dorm, the smells were... uhh.. interesting? Back in the 80s you could always smoke everywhere so people smoking and smelling smoke didn't seem like a big deal. I can see how it is a big deal now. Our elevator seemed to work most of the time but I was only up one floor so I used the stairs most of the time. The laundry was awful. Three washers and three dryers for probably 200 people? Ick. I remember we had a trash disposal area where you opened the door and threw your trash down. It was a ramp that led to who knows where, the huge trash pile. Two rooms shared a bathroom but nobody from the university cleaned it, that was our job. I was so thankful not to have community bathrooms though.
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