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Messy
student
dormitories
Why are university student dormitories so unpleasant to live in?
By Chloe Tam
uby Shum* and her two roommates have been
Rliving in a dormitory of Hang Seng University
of Hong Kong (HSUHK) for six months since Sep-
tember 2022 and only managed to clean their toilet
for the first time in February 2023. They hope they
will not have to do it again till the end of the school
year in May 2023.
“Cleaning the bathroom is very disgusting and my
roommates and I are too lazy to clean it,” the year
one Journalism student says.
The smell of the bathroom was so strong that the trio
had to think of a “quick fix”.
“We just poured some bleach into the toilet bowl,
used toilet gel stamps and sprayed freshener to cover
the unbearable odour,” Shum recalls, adding that she
does not know how to clean the toilet as her mum
cleans it for her at home.
Residents continue to fill up the rubbish bin after it is For Shum’s roommates, their domestic helpers do it.
visibly full.
