College life has many qualities; you are finally on your own, which means you can stay up late, steer clear of eating your veggies and potentially bring home that cute boy from the bar. Although these few perks are great, I found tons of disadvantages of living the dorm life now that summer has arrived.

Think you lack privacy in your home with a little brother or sister running around? Try adding 50 strangers to your home and discover your new element of privacy. Enjoy simply pleasures such as cooking methods while in the comfort of your own home? Say bye-bye to those lovely advantages once you get to college. And those are only the minor ones.

Here are my seven biggest dorm nightmares:

1. Attempting to squeeze out a quick poo (or even a number one if your pee-shy) with a bathroom full of giggling girls, hairdryers and flushing toilets. It gives personal space a whole new meaning.

2. (For the ladies) Shaving your legs is a task in itself, but attempting to do so next to a stranger in a three-by-three cube with nothing to hold onto but a moldy curtain, takes more than talent.

3. Sharing a bedroom with new people can stretch privacy alone, but when you add intimacy to the mix, the bond seems a little more strained. How do you tell a person you just met that you need the room alone for a little bit while you fulfill your ‘personal needs?’

4. After I watched my roommate buy a bag of bagels from the student market only to get back to the dorm room and realize that she had no toaster, I realized the simple cooking pleasures students are stripped of while living in the dorm.

5. We have heard it time and time again, dining hall food sucks. (I won’t even harp on this point anymore than that.)

6. There is no graceful and/or sneaky way in which one can haul their dirty socks and underwear down to the laundry room surrounded by their judgmental peers.

7. Attempting to sleep through the roaring noises of cackling girls and howling boys above and below you is another thing that tests your patience of others.

The list goes on, but those few quirks are the ones that make us ‘love’ our new homes. Dorm rooms, we officially have a love/hate relationship.