<p>I visited a few week ago, and I noticed that there are co-ed bathrooms. Can you request not to have a co-ed bathroom??? Not to be a prude or anything, but they're totally horrif! I mean, am I being totally unreasonable in expecting same-sex bathrooms? I was too embarassed to ask my hostess about it... so if you know anything about that, let me know! Thanks.</p>
<p>No dorm bathrooms are designated as single-sex. Most freshman dorms tend to be primarily for one sex or the other, just based on location (as in, there might be a bathroom between every two suites in the frosh quad, and most suites are single-sex). </p>
<p>That said, coed bathrooms are no big deal and I don't think there are any complaints about it on campus. It might be weird the first few days, but eventually it doesn't really matter if it's a guy or a girl brushing their teeth next to you, you know? There's a door on the toilet stall and a curtain on the shower, obviously.</p>
<p>I wouldn't worry too much about it if I were you, it's the kind of thing that seems like a bigger deal than it turns out to be.</p>
<p>I agree with gardenstategirl that coed bathrooms are a concern. Sorry but don't want to use a bathroom with a guy next to me.</p>
<p>I share bathroom with 3 girls. It's not that much problem. It's actually a pretty good bonding experience.</p>
<p>Most frosh bathrooms end up being unisex. If you want a unisex bathroom and put it on your housing form, I'm sure they'll put you in a suite where it'll naturally end up happening. Next year with frosh in Mission and the frosh quad, virtually all frosh bathrooms will effectively not be co-ed.</p>
<p>As an upperclassman, you pick where you want to live and who you want to live with, and basically can determine whether your bathroom's co-ed or not. My frosh year my bathroom was unisex. My sophomore year I picked in with girls so my bathroom was co-ed. Before I came to college I was really worried about this, but it's really no big deal at all. All bathrooms at Williams are private enough and shared by few enough people (for frosh next year they'll be shared from 4-8 people) that for the most part you don't see others in the bathrooms other than brushing your teeth. Williams bathrooms are really not the "typical" communal dorm bathrooms.</p>
<p>I really want to dorm in Mission next year; do they have common rooms like Williams too? And thanks for the backup, SP135. Glad to see somebody else gets it; I mean, you don't just brush your teeth in the bathroom, you know. I don't want to freak out the other half over here.</p>
<p>gardenstategirl, I'm aware that more goes on in the bathroom than brushing your teeth. But what do we (as in, females) do that is top secret from guys? They know we poop. As haon said, most bathrooms are de facto single-sex freshman year, and after that you can choose a dorm with private bathrooms if you want. This year is my first with a bathroom used regularly by both sexes (freshman year I was in a suite of girls and last year I had a semi-private bathroom between two singles), and the only difference is that there's Sports Illustrated in there next to the Cosmo and Us Weekly.</p>
<p>In terms of Mission common rooms, there are fewer than in the Williams and Sage halls. Willy and Sage have vertical entries with a common room on each of the four floors, one of which is designated as the "entry common room" where people tend to hang out. Mission has one common room per floor, and I'm pretty sure the floors are going to be horizontal entries next year.</p>
<p>I would just avoid the co-ed bathroom situation.</p>
<p>In our entry, there is a bathroom for the girls and one for the boys (though the boys is more unisex since we have more girls in our entry).</p>
<p>does the first year housing form allow you to state a preference for where you want to dorm? i thought it was a random draw...</p>
<p>Read I Am Charlotte Simmons. I wouldn't want co ed bathrooms.</p>
<p>one of my brother's first year roommates had a habit of going into the bathroom stark naked...if a lot of male ephs have a tendency of doing that, then i wouldn't want co ed bathrooms either...(not to mention that my parents would flip and probably try to get me to transfer to Wellesley)</p>
<p>when i did an overnight at williams, the entry i stayed in had a little sign with a marker thing you could put on empty, guys, girls, co-ed, the idea being (obviously) that people would know if the other sex was in the bathroom and could avoid it if they wanted. so if it's really important to you, you could make a sign like this.. tisn't a perfect system, but better than nothing i think</p>
<p>It is more common to see co-ed bathrooms in upper-class housing, and it's probably up to the students to organise the situation...and well, in Frosh Quad, some bathrooms are co-ed because the JAs [male and female] live next to each other and have to use the same bathroom, shared by the students living close by.</p>
<p>And I spoke to some students who use co-ed bathrooms. It seemed freaky at first, but they are now used to it.</p>
<p>More details on this topic are available at EphBlog.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.ephblog.com/archives/003355.html%5B/url%5D">http://www.ephblog.com/archives/003355.html</a></p>
<p>my corridoor has 4 girls and guy...so we end up sharing a bathroom and it's really not that big a deal. I will admit I was initially disconcerted to find that there was only this translucent white curtain separating the shower...but I got used to it. You develop a certain comfort level with your entry as time goes on and coed bathrooms are really not an issue!</p>