<p>In a dorm, what are the pros and cons of an all guys floor vs a co-ed floor?</p>
<p>well do you want a sausage fest or not</p>
<p>i’m a girl but i’m doing co ed. it’ll be much more interesting and fun than a bunch of chicks.</p>
<p>for freshmen I’d actually recommend an all guys floor. The problem with coed floors is that everyone is just out of HS and cliques form rapidly just like the world they came from 3 months earlier. </p>
<p>All guys floors aren’t perfect; you can expect them to be noisy and for a lot of drinking, and not as clean as coed floors. But nobody is going to force you to drink if you don’t want to. It’s almost like being in a fraternity without rushing; the guys realize they’re all in it together and you don’t get the cliques and drama of a coed floor. People for the most part just get along, better friends with some than with others.</p>
<p>I guess you can somewhat compare an all guys floor to a fraternity, and it would also be likely much easier to make new friends. I would say all guys floor.</p>
<p>senor boombox nailed it … sausage fests arent fun</p>
<p>I just finished my freshmen year, and got stuck in an all guys 1 floor dorm building. Didn’t expect or want it in the beginning, and felt really deprived when I first moved in. As time went on tho I really liked it there, no homo. U do end up making friends with a vast majority of the people like Mikemac said, and its also alot of fun. Since guys are competitive as hell, i couldn’t tell u all the crazy games of ping pong, pool, poker, and sports we played all year long. If we had girls in our building it wouldn’t be the same. It’s also not that hard to meet girls, unless ur anti social, b/c I’m sure girls are very close lol unless ur in an all guys campus, which would just be gay</p>
<p>Go with the all guys floor. There is much more camaraderie there, as most of the guys who choose that are looking for friends because of choosing it. On a co-ed floor, the girls aren’t really ones you are ever able to date, or do much with, with rare exceptions. The girls you meet will be at other places, not on your floor. </p>
<p>All guys sounds bad at first, but it’s actually not bad.</p>
<p>Don’t listen to people who say things like “LOL SAUSAGE FEST.” It’s pretty convenient when people do mention it, actually, because you know you can safely dismiss them as being morons. I think that they think they’re some uber-stud who is going to be banging the girls of their choice from their floor every night on command. Yeah that doesn’t actually work out in practice, at all.</p>
<p>You will have plenty of opportunities to meet girls regardless of your living arrangements. Do not pick a dorm on the basis of it being co-ed. If, as a result of it being co-ed it’s nice, quieter, or whatever then by all means pick it. But don’t pick it just because there will be some girls there, as there will be plenty.</p>
<p>lol the electrical engineer from purdue must be an expert on sausage fests, so i would trust his advice ;)</p>
<p>it’s not a matter of wanting to bang all the girls on your floor, you insecure little boy. some of us actually enjoy the company of females, but i doubt your ee classes really help you with that…</p>
<p>When I lived in the dorm, the floors were co-ed but the girls had one side of the hall and boys had the other and it was separated by just a hallway. For the most part, people rarely crossed over to the other side.</p>
<p>That said, if you can’t meet people of the opposite sex without being forced to live on the same floor them…then chances are, you weren’t going to meet anyone anyway.</p>
<p>I have plenty of experience with a “sausage fest.” Those engineers who wanted girlfriends had them. Those that would rather focus on school and having fun without drama didn’t have them. Those who were too socially inept to talk to anyone at all couldn’t get them. Living on some co-ed floor with the opposite sex is likely not going to help you get a girlfriend.</p>
<p>Co-ed. The sausage fest problem is not that you won’t find girls to hook up with, but that you’ll be in a “guy bubble”. This isn’t kindergarten, you’re hopefully mature enough to have female friends.</p>
<p>'Living on some co-ed floor with the opposite sex is likely not going to help you get a girlfriend."</p>
<p>I disagree. You won’t find a girlfriend on that floor, but you’re likely to come out of freshman year with a co-ed group of close friends. Have a bunch of platonic female friends will make it a lot easier to meet other women later on. Your female buddies are also crucial sources of advice if you want to develop from a high school boy into the kind of man girls want to date.</p>
<p>I don’t think this ought to be the reasoning behind your choice, but I’ll throw it out there.</p>
<p>Most of the reasons expressed above are trivial. </p>
<p>The real reason you want to live on a coed floor is so you can get into parties as a freshman. If you want to get into the hottest parties, you need to have a group of decent girls at least walk with you. Living on a coed floor means you have a convenient group of girls who, even if you aren’t that close to them, you can go through the door with.</p>
<p>If you aren’t that concerned about going to parties, than it probably doesn’t matter.</p>
<p>^Most of the guys on my floor freshmen year pretty much never talked to the girls on our floor, let alone go to parties with them.</p>
<p>The girls that you will bring as pivots could potentially be girls you meet on the floor, but 95% of the time, they aren’t.</p>
<p>I will definitely try to get on a coed floor because it’s more fun to be with both guys and girls =)</p>