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Harvard grad students may be smart, but still need someone to hold their hands when it comes to going to the bathroom

Sep 8, 2009

harvard-etiquetteA high GRE score doesn’t equate to high levels of common sense – or at least that’s how administrators at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Arts & Sciences feel.  Upon arriving for school this week, grad students at the school who reside on campus were presented with the usual garb of campus gear – school IDs, housing rules, safety precautions, fire exit locations – and a guide to proper bathroom etiquette.  In case they weren’t smart enough to figure it out themselves, students at one of America’s most highly respected and prestigious universities were actually presented a pamphlet of appropriate and inappropriate actions for toilets, urinals, sinks, and showers.

The checklist included rules such as:
-   Don’t leave bodily fluids on the toilet seat
-    Don’t stand on the toilet seat
-    Don’t collect or store urine and then dispose of it later in the bathroom or shower
-    Don’t urinate, defecate, or excavate the naval cavity in the shower
-    Don’t urinate, defecate, vomit, or wash feet in the sink
-    Urinate in the urinal with the proper aim
-    It’s OK to smile at yourself in the mirror

Well I’m glad someone is teaching our Ivy League students not to stand on the toilet seat! That’s been a real issue bothering me for awhile now.  If you are interested in educating yourself like a true Harvard student, click here to read the full list of bathroom rules.

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3 Responses to “Harvard grad students may be smart, but still need someone to hold their hands when it comes to going to the bathroom”

  1. Bathroom Colors - January 29th, 2010 at 8:08 am

    haha!! that’s how i feel sometimes. like i need to bring my work wiht me!!

  2. Sony - February 18th, 2010 at 1:43 am

    Thanks very Good Sharing :)

  3. Clare @ Harvard Application - February 19th, 2010 at 8:56 am

    I just can’t help myself to laugh about this blogpost.

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