Catherine was one of those students who waited until the last minute to do laundry.

At times, rather than risk mangled shirts and multicolored clothes, she would make the journey with which some Penn State students can identify — a long bus ride home with only dirty laundry as luggage.

"I was one of them. I had to wait until I was forced (to do laundry) ," said Catherine Falcetti, who now works for Procter & Gamble, which is sponsoring "Wrinkle Free Laundry Week."

Students have the option of leaving that dirty laundry behind until Sunday.

From 3 to 9 p.m. Sunday through Thursday at Parkway Plaza Apartments, Penn State students are invited to the event, which will offer clothing care information. The company will also offer students to try a product that helps produce wrinkle-free clothes.

"The whole campus is invited. It's going to be first come, first serve," Falcetti said.

Students are invited to use the complex's washers and dryers for free while also learning how to do laundry properly.

They will be instructed about the most effective temperatures in which to wash different sorts of clothes, how and when to separate as well as how much detergent to use, Falcetti said.

College methods of stuffing washers and dryers with clothes to save some money will also be addressed.

"That's a really bad idea because clothes really don't get clean," she said. "It's about maintaining your clothes."

Some students, however, come to Penn State prepared to handle doing their own laundry without the aid of anyone.

"It's usually the guys who have never done it before," Karen Arcangelo (senior-Italian) said of the people who generally have laundry problems.

Since she has a washer and dryer in her building, she will not be taking advantage of the event, she said.

Corey La Prade (senior-human development and family studies), however, countered this common stereotype about college men, saying that he hasn't had much trouble with doing his laundry.

He said that while he has been doing laundry for a long time, if he needed help, he would go to the event.

Laundry detergent and dryer sheets will also be provided if students do not bring them, Falcetti said.

Students are advised to bring their ID+.

The 5-day event will travel to 30 campuses across the nation.