Are all the rooms in one floor all-boys or all-girls?

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<p>At all First-year resident halls at Cornell (except Balch)...are all the rooms in one floor all-girls and in another floor all-boys?</p>

<p>Or does each floor consist of some girl's rooms and some boy's rooms?</p>

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<p>No, the floors are mixed, but corridors aren’t. So there will be a bunch of girls’ dorms in a row and then a bunch of boy’s dorms, etc.</p>

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<p>At least some dorms are mixed on the same corridor. Donlon has boys’ rooms interspersed with girls’ rooms. Also, there are 3 bathrooms on the floor: one male, one female, one gender neutral.</p>

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<p>Thanks , and what about Mews Hall?</p>

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<p>^^
That’s kind of strange. Who uses the gender neutral one? That would be really awkward.</p>

<p>Mews is definitely mixed, although I’m not sure if it’s by corridors or just completely mixed.</p>

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<p>in one dorm situation I had at Cornell, the gender neutral bathroom was close to my room than the women’s bathroom, so often I’d just use that one.</p>

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<p>Mews is mixed by groupings. It’s a little confusing. </p>

<p>I think what is supposed to happen is, walking down the corridor on one side there are 3 girls rooms (and a bathroom that they all share) followed by 3 boys rooms, and on the opposite side its 3 boys rooms followed by 3 girls rooms, and it continues switching. Each set of 3 rooms+bathroom is called a “suite” but its not really a suite like at a hotel or like the ones on west campus, just a set of rooms distinguished by a nook. So if you’re a girl, you’re in a set of rooms and the set directly across from you and on either side of you is boys but the ones diagonally across from you are girls.</p>

<p>It makes a lot of sense because it means you share a bathroom with 5 people of your same sex, but can still interact with people of the opposite sex.</p>

<p>The thing is, that’s not what happened for me, so its not definite. In Mews the halls are kind of split by the staircase with a diff RA on each side of the staircase, and on our side there were maybe 6 male suites and only 2 female suites, so the two female suites were just right next to each other and the rest were guys.</p>