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Sharing chores with roommates and cleaning up right after meals can help keep messes from getting out of hand.
CLEANING (CONTINUED FROM 12)
BY DANA MEREDITH dmeredith@kansan.com
Cleaning. For college students living away from home for the first time, adding this messy and time-consuming chore to a schedule already full of schoolwork, jobs, extracurricular activities and a social life can be challenging.
In a recent Kansan survey of 100 students.60
percent of University students
percent of University students reported their mothers as being responsible for most cleaning when the students lived at home. Ten percent reported that some kind of relative or cleaning service fulfilled this role.
For Matt Rissien, Overland Park senior, moving from an environment where his mother and sisters kept things clean to
one where he had to pick up after himself and share space with non-relatives was difficult.
"Freshman year, coming in, I lived in Naismith," Rissien said. "I shared a room with somebody for the first time ever. That was hard because suddenly my cleaning habits affected someone else. I had to learn in my
"I had to learn in my everyday routine to pick my clothes up, keep a clean room."
MATT RISSIEN Overland Park senior
everyday routine to pick my clothes up,keep a clean room. I learned to develop cleaning habits."
Becca Sabatés, Prairie Village freshman, also had to take on additional cleaning responsibilities upon arriving at college.
"At home my mom did the laundry, and she would vacuum the whole house," Sabatés said. "Now I have to wash the dishes I use. My roommate and I take turns taking out the
trash; we vacuum every couple of weeks."
Some students come to college with a good cleaning routine already in place but still find it difficult to keep up with maintaining their living space. In the Kansan survey, 55 percent of respondents cited a busy schedule as the main factor preventing them from cleaning on a regular basis.
"I've been responsible for everything since I was 8," Felicia Alvarado, Salina junior, said. "Now, cleaning almost always happens on the weekends, because that's when I have time. Going to school full time and working until 4 a.m. makes it difficult to keep things clean."
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