<p>I'm glad Harvard doesnt have dual-gender rooms. Girls are icky, they are covered in cooties! Then you'll have to walk all the way to Harvard Med to get a cootie shot, which of course is just a punch in the arm. Besides, boys are so much nicer...</p>
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<p>The answer to the OP's question is "sort of."</p>
<p>Housing arrangements are at the discretion of the housemaster. Harvard does have regulations about mixed-gender suites--the bedrooms must have lockable doors and you can't have a walkthrough bedroom setup. After that, the housemaster gets to decide how "mixed" suites can be. The rules already disqualify a lot of buildings from having coed suites. But the entryway setup means that floors have so few rooms that the inhabitants can "combine" several suites on one floor into a single setup. My U in Leverett, for example, is a 7-person co-ed setup with a combination of singles and doubles that share two bathrooms. We treat it as a bunch of independent rooms. However, many times people will take over 1 U and treat the whole thing as a single suite. (This is possible to do either way because each U entrance is locked, and the 4-5 rooms that constitute each U have their own, separate locks.) And I am pretty sure you can do that with a coed U.</p>
<p>okay, thanks for all the replies then. Think I have made myself a clear image of the situation :), so to the next question - is it true that Harvard girls are uhm..less attractive?</p>
<p>Now that's just common sense.</p>
<p>It makes no sense that MIT girls are hot and Harvard ones aren't!</p>
<p>Less attractive than what?</p>
<p>Listen, you'll have no problem finding attractive girls at Harvard or MIT or just about any school, I assure you. And Ace, why does that not make sense? Under the false impression that girls in science/math tend to be ugly?</p>
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Wouldn't they prefer lesbians living with gay guys? I mean, that's how you avoid funny business. But where do you keep the bis?
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<p>"Funny business" being what, exactly?</p>
<p>It is not about whether you can find attractive girls at Harvard/MIT or not. I think everyone will believe you, guitarman, that there are some attractive girls out of a class of ~1800. The thing is that the "density" or frequency of hot girls in comparison to schools like UPenn tends to be lower at Harvard and MIT.</p>
<p>BUT dont ask me why, this just seems to be a consensus between students from all Ivies.</p>
<p>Ahhh. Maybe. Well, even if you can't find a girl at H, I can think of a worse place to live than Boston to find some :p</p>
<p>Yeah, I was wondering about this as well, whether a lot of Harvard students date people from other Boston colleges or if they rather prefer to stay in their Cambridge bubble. Also, does the H-bomb have a rather positive or negative effect in terms of building a relationship with students from other colleges? My guess is that for guys it can't be a disadvantage to be viewed as smart... But I might be wrong</p>
<p>Actually I take it back, I know some rediculously good-looking H girls. And pretty kickass too.</p>
<p>Some Harvard guys date Wellesley girls (although they will get good-natured flak for it from their friends back at Harvard), I know a couple of people with significant others at MIT or other local schools, there are folks in LDRs with people at non-Boston colleges, but mostly Harvard students date other Harvard students.</p>
<p>grrr, women, nature's second blunder. Off with you, woman!</p>
<p>haha. interesting post.
i actually heard of a girl who ALMOST got stuck with three guys in her room...(my friend's...friend.) she was kinda freaked out.. so she changed her room few days later..lol</p>
<p>Jack Tripper is my hero.</p>
<p>Wesleyan students are permitted to room with other Wesleyan students of the opposite gender after their first years.</p>
<p>Wesleyan is SO liberal, I read a book on that. Talk about free spirits</p>
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MIT is definitely over 40% female. Probably like 45%. And a lot of them are really hot.
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Are you being sarcastic?</p>
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Its not like hes asking if bathrooms are unisex
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Harvard actually has unisex bathrooms. I know there's one on the 2nd floor in the library in the science center (I can never remember the name of that lib.)</p>
<p>General comments:
I've actually heard you can apply to share a room with someone of the opposite sex at MIT.</p>
<p>well if we're on the topic of how attractive Harvard GIRLS are....what about the guys? please tell me there are some that are "Tom Brady-esque" if you know what i mean....so far i haven't heard the best of things about the attractiveness of Harvard guys....hmm</p>
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well if we're on the topic of how attractive Harvard GIRLS are....what about the guys? please tell me there are some that are "Tom Brady-esque" if you know what i mean....so far i haven't heard the best of things about the attractiveness of Harvard guys....hmm
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<p>I'm interested, too.</p>