Hi friends. It has recently been brought to my attention that we have a serious problem on campus: the toilets in the Medical Education Building do not flush very well. Well, to be honest, they barely flush at all. Every time I go into the bathroom, there are remnants of toilet paper (and more!) left behind, floating in the bowl.
My favorite part of this whole issue is that Med Ed is a brand new building and pretty high-tech (I'm pretty sure the entire building is wired to record our every move... and we could probably do telemedicine from the restrooms - just don't expect us to flush). But seriously. The toilets even have two separate buttons for "efficient" flushing: one for "number 1" and another for "number 2." I think it's an attempt to go green or something. Great thinking, Med Ed Building Designers! If only the toilets could flush all of their contents in the first place.
Another great feature is that the toilets usually flush for you (making the button choices obsolete). But how do they know if it's number 1 or 2?! One of my classmates suggested that it's based on the time you're sitting on the toilet. Maybe. But this was countered by the fact that girls really don't take that long to poop (we, unlike boys, come to the toilet ready to go, do our business, and are gone... no need to make an event of it). Again, Designers, clever thinking... if the flushes got the job done!
The real root of the problem seems to be the flushing power of the toilets. It doesn't matter if you press number 1 or number 2, or if the sensor guesses what's gone down based on the time you've sat on the toilet. If the toilets don't have enough flushing power, they're never going to flush everything away and we'll forever be stuck with a gross reminder of Med Ed's toilet technology failure.
So where do we go from here? Will we ever see the day where the Med Ed toilets flush completely? I propose we make a survey on how to improve the toilet flushing situation and then discuss its results at Dean's Hour. Who's with me?
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