Gabriela Allen
September 27, 2014
Professor Young
ENGL 1100
Essay #2
Laundry
Room backups
Imagine
living in one hall with boys and girls who are always trying to get their
laundry washed. Every day whenever I do
not have classes, I walk into the laundry room and always see the machines
going. Sometimes I see other people’s
clothes on top of the dryer. It
sometimes looks like a tornado went off everywhere. Students are taking other peoples clothes out
before the timer is even up. Every
community has its own issues and problems within it. Our college has a few but my biggest issue is
the laundry room and the machines. There are multiple problems with the laundry
between the residents. There are not
enough machines in the laundry rooms and there are always people taking other
peoples clothes out before the time is up.
Also, sometimes people aren’t always there to pick up their wash when it
is done. The RA’s assigned to each
hallway should make a solution to their own problems.
I
believe there are not enough washing machines and dryers in the freshman
dorms. I know there are other dorms
that have two of each machine and time management is kept up well so there is
never really a problem with machines being open. At least two of each should be
given because there are so many people on the floors that many people always
end up waiting to get their clothes washed.
Waiting for a washer or dryer to be open feels like an eternity at some
points. My hallway shares our laundry
room with the boys on our floor also so that’s twice the amount of people. We all know girls have a billion more items
to wash than boys do! It is always hard
to find a time to use the machines because they are always taken so having that
extra machine would be such a great advantage for our whole floor. Even people from other floors in our dorm
come up and use our washing machines because theirs are never open either. Therefore, that causes more issues for us
too.
Another
problem with our laundry room is that people are taking clothes out too early
when they aren’t even their clothes.
There was an issue at one point when one of the guys took out our RA’s
clothes before the timer was up. Gentrification
is the act of pushing someone out of something or a community. In Valerie Kinloch’s essay, she proves points
about gentrification. “…Philip, Khaleeq,
and I initiated a conversation on how art in Harlem can serve as yet another
literacy response to gentrification” (Kinloch 148). This relates to the laundry
room problem because you are basically pushing someone out of the laundry room
by taking their clothes out too early.
How would they like it if someone took their clothes out to early? I’m sure they would not like it at all.
There
is always a solution to every problem.
An easy solution to the problem with the laundry room is getting a sign
in sheet.
Whenever you put your stuff in
the dryer or washing machine, you put the time you started and your room
number.
Therefore, if your wash is done
and it is still in one of the machines, the next person to use the machine can
give you your clothes if you don’t realize they are done.
Another rule can be that once someone’s wash
is done and you want to put yours in, give him or her five minutes to get their
clothes out.
If they don’t get them in
five minutes then you can take them out.
Our RA decided to make this a solution to our own hallway problem.
She started it about a week ago and I have
noticed a good improvement.
Everyone
uses the sign in sheet and waits the amount of time needed.
Talking to someone about a second washer and
dryer would still be a good idea so it is even less of a problem for everyone.
We
are beginning to have fewer problems with our washing machine and dryer now due
to our solution made by my RA.
Clothes
are not thrown everywhere anymore and there is usually always some amount of
time to do laundry.
In conclusion, our
freshman dorms have problems with the amount of machines we have for
laundry.
Knowing this is the biggest
freshman class at Fairleigh Dickinson, don’t you think someone should have
thought about the amount of people that would need to use the machines to do
their dirty, smelly wash?
There is
always a solution that can be found with a problem.
My hallway in Hamilton found our solution for
our problem and it is working.
Even the
boys follow the sign in sheet rule!
Work
Cited
Kinloch, Valerie. “Harlem, Art, and Literacy and Documenting
‘Harlem is Art’/‘Harlem as
Art’”. Teaching Developmental Writing.
Ed. Susan Naomi Bernstein.
Fourth Ed. Boston: Bedford/ St.
Martin’s Professional Resources, 2013. 147-160.
Print.
