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382 bytes added, 11:16, October 15, 2022
added mention of free laundry
So you're at college. It took a while, but you've finally learned how to juggle classes, sports, clubs, sleep, friends, phone calls home, homework, and feeding yourself at least daily. Until the morning when you wake up and realize that you have to go to class in your Shrek pajamas, because you have nothing else that's clean. And then you wail in anguish, because you are no longer a successful adult. You forgot to do laundry. This task is, indeed, the proverbial Straw that broke the College Student's back. ==But it's okay.==Just go to class--everyone loves Shrek--and when you come back, find the laundry room.
==Where can I do laundry?==
Every dorm has a laundry room (except [[Tyler House]] and one or two Dodd houses?). These are typically located in the basement or on the ground floor. In this author's liited limited experience, the machines work well when they are not out of order.
==How do I pay for laundry?==
To wash or dry a load costs a cool '''$1.25'''. You can feed nickels, dimesLaundry is now free, and (the Holy Grail of college students) quarters into the machine--or you can put money on your ID card via even get free detergent sheets from the cash-to-card machine located dispenser in the back lobby of Paresky (is there another one?), and use that instead.Mission Park
==How long does it take?==
#Students who pay a small fee can have their clothes taken care of by the nearby Waterworks Laundry, which will even pick the laundry up from your dorm.
#Some clever person made a website where you could keep track of which machines were free when--unfortunately, this author can't find it.
#The website in question is [http://www.laundryview.com/lvs.php LaundryView], and this editor thinks 2014 class rep [http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view/too1 Teddy Onserio] may be the clever person described above (the website belongs to the laundry company, but it was definitely a student who set up our access). Unfortunately, the only laundry rooms currently listed are Armstrong, Dennett and Morgan (which appears to be offline at the moment.)
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