<p>So I was recently accepted at Beloit and I filled out the housing form.....I said that Maurer, the all-girl dorm, was my first choice/3. Am I making a good choice, or does it depend on the person? I have not sent the papers yet....</p>
<p>Girls dorms vary. I was one of those girls that never got along with other girls, my friends were always boys, and I lived in an all girls dorm my second year and loved it. I’d never go back to co-ed housing. Strong sense of community, the dorm was nice, a ton less drama, everything was cleaner and smelled better (in general), and it was nice to get some semblance of <em>privacy.</em></p>
<p>yeah, I’m like that too. Guys are just easier to hang out with…but I think living with them would be awkward.</p>
<p>College boys can be very loud and gross sometimes in a co-ed dorm, so yeah, if you want to avoid it with the all girls dorm…I’m in a co-ed dorm- sometimes it’s fine, but other times they just get so annoying.</p>
<p>I’m in a co-ed dorm. I couldn’t imagine being in an all-girls dorm. My friends who are in them have some horror stories.</p>
<p>The thing is though that you’re not actually sharing a living space with guys. You’re only sharing a hallway and common rooms. Your bathrooms and bedrooms are just with girls.</p>
<p>But I think it depends on the person and the people in the dorms. Personally, I like the fact that I’m surrounded by guys. It’s a fairly drama-free existence, but I also know there are some girls who are completely drama-free and you could end up with them.</p>
<p>I think it’s kind of pot-luck either way.</p>
<p>I’ve lived in both all girls and co-ed dorms… I loved the all girls dorm to be honest, and I have a lot of guy friends. It was just a really strong community feel when it was all girls - I don’t know why really, but that seemed to taper off as boys were added into the mix.</p>
<p>Not all “coed” dorms means your sharing rooms,bathrooms,etc. Look into what the particular dorm means by coed. Where I lived for a year, it was coed but the floors wear kept separate (to the point of the guys floors wear the first 3 and the girls floors wear 4, 5, and 6). They wear pretty admit about mixing on floors after midnight any night. And for the most part guys stayed on their floors and girls stayed on theirs. Only at the bottom common areas people would hang out.</p>
<p>I live in a coed dorm, and I can’t imagine living in an all-girls hall. Guys tend to neutralize the drama that girls stir up.</p>
<p>Personally, I’d recommend living in a coed dorm, or even coed floor. My coed floor definitely has a strong sense of community and there’s no drama with the mix. Guys and girls bathrooms are separate so no worries about the stereotype that facilities would be dirtier. Plus, it’s fun to all party together, and in general, everyone knows: no floorcest.</p>
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Not always. Most are, but I’ve heard of some colleges where even the bathrooms and everything is co-ed, although this is not the norm.</p>
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In my dorm, guys and girls are always on each other’s floors and in the lounges together, so it’s always mixed anyways, so it’s like having co-ed floors but still separate bathrooms. This varies by college how much they let you visit each other’s floors. Our visiting hours technically end at 1 am on school nights and are unlimited on weekends.</p>
<p>Wasn’t there a thread on here not that long ago that said it wasn’t the norm for colleges to have visitation policies regarding opposite sex visits?</p>
<p>My dorm is co-ed. Every floor has both girls and guys except the basement, which somehow ended up being all guys. (I guess they know girls don’t want to live down there.) We have a visitation policy for our building that says we can’t have opposite sex visitors between 2 am and 10 am, but that rule doesn’t apply to anyone actually living in the dorms, so you’ll see guys and girls hanging out together much later that fairly routinely.</p>
<p>I live in suite-style dorms, so I share a bathroom with my roommate and two suitemates. I don’t have to worry about guys being all up in my personal living space or bathroom or anything, but at the same time, my neighbors aren’t all girls. It’s kind of the best of both worlds.</p>
<p>But if what you want is to live in all-girls housing, then go for it. I really think it depends on the person and even the people who you end up living with. It could be a great situation, but it could also be a horrible situation and there’s really no way for you to tell right now.</p>
<p>hey! so first of all, I go to Beloit! I live in Chapin right now, which is right next to Maurer. I think that my first three choices on the housing form were Chapin, Brannon, and Maurer. Chapin is nice, there’s sinks in all the rooms and a big lounge and the dining hall is right downstairs, which means you don’t need to go outside to eat. Generally, the rooms are pretty big. Usually, I like living here. My floor is all girls, and the 3rd floor is all guys. </p>
<p>what kind of person are you? Do you like to party? or do you like your quiet? Maurer is gloriously quiet and also very clean. The rooms, especially corner ones are really big. There’s a pretty even number of singles and doubles. I had some reservations about living in an all girls dorm too, but now I think I’d like to live there next year. Although Chapin isn’t constantly noisy, it can get loud, especially on weekends. Also a while ago some guy peed on the stairs… last weekend, somehow, a shopping cart appeared in the lounge… Maurer is attatched to Chapin through a tunnel, so you can get to the food without going outside. It also has a super big lounge called the Maurer Link where a lot of people hang out/study. One of my friends was originally placed in Peet, which is considered the “party dorm” and now she’s moved to Maurer, and loves it. It all depends on what you want- I know some people who absolutely love Peet, and others who hated it and moved out. Maurer is quiet, people are respectful, things are clean. let me know if you have other questions about Beloit! I’d be happy to answer!</p>
<p>Not sure why people think girls’ bathrooms are going to be cleaner. DEFINITELY not. Guys are generally louder and have dirtier rooms, but girls’ bathrooms are just as, if not more disgusting.</p>
<p>That said, I live in a coed floor with gender neutral bathrooms. It’s not a problem at all. By the time people are 18+ years old, they should be able to live together without worrying about cooties or whatever fear people have of the opposite sex. We’re all human.</p>
<p>Oh, I want it quiet haha. :)</p>
<p>My school is all single-sex dorms, and it seems to work well for everyone involved. People typically just sleep in their rooms and hang out with people in other dorms all the time. Then again, maybe it’s different when there’s a choice, since a different kind of people might choose single-sex over co-ed.</p>
<p>I live in an all girls dorm at my school. I like it, but it is definitely not for everyone. At my school the co-ed dorms are by side. All the dorms have east and west sides so, guys can get in on their side, and girls can’t and vice versa. Then there are visiting hours for both co-ed and all female dorms. Don’t let anyone tell you bathrooms will be cleaner in an all-girls dorm, because they are LYING!!! Girls get disgustingly gross…just saying. An all-girls dorm is nice, because it creates a nice, trusting community…but not everyone likes being around just girls, or they don’t get along well with them. And not going to lie, sometimes its a bit hard to make friends if you don’t like to put yourself out there, because it seems like girls make their respective cliques pretty quickly.
Just some things to be aware of.</p>