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As a Medill cherub, deadlines, new friendships, articles, photography and guest speakers leave little room for laundry in your schedule.

You stumble down the dorm steps, piles of summer clothes overflowing in your arms, as your underwear and stray socks leave a trail from your bedroom. Once downstairs, you rummage through your pockets, hoping to find four quarters or enough to start the washing machine. You realize you do not know how to use the detergent your mom bought for you. Suddenly you spot a small ketchup stain from lunch that afternoon, and your eyes dart from the stain to the bottle of soap in your hands.

What does detergent even mean? Is Clorox a type of bleach? These thoughts race through your head as you decide to take the chance.

This audio was created for the laundry amateurs to avoid the cleaning mistakes or 2011.