<p>Kind of an old article, but still interesting. Even more schools are doing this now... this article mentions quite a few of them and the reasoning behind it. Would you go to one of these schools for this?</p>
<p>Around</a> US, co-ed dorms catch on | The Michigan Daily</p>
<p>I think it's hot. Let's do it.
Thoughts?</p>
<p>If I were in a loving and committed relationship, I would want to live with my partner.</p>
<p>Living together, apparently, is the greatest challenge to test the strength of a relationship and the compatibility of two human beings.</p>
<p>Otherwise, this is a crazy idea. Sexual harassment and assault galore.</p>
<p>"Sexual harassment and assault galore."</p>
<p>Not necessarily. Not all people (note people. not men.) are bad. Just because you live with someone of the opposite sex doesn't mean you'll get assaulted. </p>
<p>but that's just my opinion.</p>
<p>"I think it's hot."</p>
<p>I agree, as long as the room-mate is single. & straight. & attractive. & attracted to u. & wants/is ready for a relationship. <em>cough</em></p>
<p>This is an interesting topic. I lived with my (now) wife and her roommate in a dorm room as a sophomore in college. It was a female floor in a coed dorm. I would bet that my presence made some of the girls on the floor uncomfortable but several years out of college, I don't know any of those individuals anymore. On the other hand, I have maintained friendships with a few of the girls on the floor as well as my wife and my old roommate. I don't think this needs to be a bad situation, it certainly wasn't for us.</p>
<p>I'm not convinced that most of people who opt for gender-neutral housing are looking to live with their significant other. At my school, we (that is, housing staff) strongly discourage living in a small, cramped room with someone that you might need to get far away from in the near future. Students are almost entirely against the idea as well: it just doesn't sound like much fun for most college students (an opinion that is reflected in the surveys of numerous schools that practice gender-neutral housing). The option is mostly there for easing transgendered students' fears and for allowing platonic male-female pairs the opportunity to live with the people they want, not for sex-crazed co-eds to get into a living arrangement they will almost certainly regret.</p>
<p>oh my gosh..i would love this
my gay best friend and i have talked about doing this in an apartment, but to do it in a dorm would be great
i think it's fantastic!</p>
<p>Aren't most dorms already co-ed with single sex rooms? Hell, a camp I went to in high school had co-ed cabins for a while. I don't see the big deal with co-ed dorms.</p>
<p>Co-ed rooms should be reserved for couples who request one though.</p>
<p>I think it's a pretty interesting idea. It might not be a good idea for two people who are in a relationship because, well, what if the relationship doesn't last. But obviously, it would be great for someone who is transgendered. Or if a female and male are friends that want to live with each other. Or if someone just doesn't care what gender they live with.</p>
<p>I don't see any problem with it. It's not like two girls who share a room are necessarily going to walk around naked or anything either so I don't really see that personal privacy in a physical sense is an issue. When I moved out of my family home into rental accommodation I was the only girl in a house of 6 boys, there was no problem at all. The real world mixes men and women, why not college dorms? <em>shrugs</em></p>
<p>I am a straight male that gets along a lot better with girls than guys. I am able to maintain a number of close female friendships without romance. If i were to find people in college like this than I would consider it. Probably freak my parents out though :D</p>
<p>However i would not do it with someone I was in a relationship with. If we broke up it would be really awkward. And also i just don't think its good to live with a partner in a dorm.</p>
<p>So I am for non-romantic roommates in coed rooms!</p>
<p>I would like a co-ed dorm</p>
<p>why?</p>
<p>Simple: Being with ONLY guys will not be good for me.</p>
<p>I like to socialize myself with girls and guys equally, having all guys will be like going to all-boys school and that's just really boring.</p>
<p>It's for the socializing factor, I personally get along better with girls (I have more girl friends than guy friends and no I am not gay)</p>
<p>I think living with a long-term partner in the same dorm would be nice and eventually maybe an apartment.</p>
<p>Many friends live with guys and girls both on campus and off here and it's never created an issue or tension amongst my friends.</p>
<p>Often, romantic couples don't live together (unless they've been together years) because dealing with the potential drama from that is not something most people want to worry about. Even after many years, many still choose to live apart, even if its in coed housing.</p>
<p>I shared an apartment in law school with a friend who asked his roommates if we minded if his girlfriend moved in with him. We wre OK with it. She called him shortly thereafter to say she wanted to break up, but still wanted to live move in with him. He said OK, hoping that she would change her mind. He had a very difficult year, sharing a double bed with his ex-girlfriend. But in the end, they got back together, and have now been married for more than twenty years.</p>
<p>I dated a next door neighbor for a while. It was on-again, off-again for several difficult years. </p>
<p>I also had the experience of working in a small office with someone I had dated for nearly five years.</p>
<p>My own advice is that it sounds really cool to be romantically involved with your dorm roommate, until it isn't cool, at which times it becomes extremely uncool.</p>
<p>interesting, but I'd also be worried of sexual harassment/assault, or at least awkward moments ("what's that?" "... <.<")</p>
<p>i have done it before once but only for a few weeks, and you'd really need to be comfortable around the other person (moreso than you'd need to be for a same-sex roomie)</p>
<p>I wouldn't want it. At least not in this stage of my life. But I can see how it would work for some people.</p>
<p>Well, I don't think you'll have a lot of awkward moments, co-ed dorms get their OWN bathrooms and seperate everything right?</p>
<p>so it's not like a naked dude/girl will walk on the hallways just like that...</p>
<p>I think this is a good idea for the freedoms that should be awarded to an adult college students. BUT THIS IS A TERRIBLE IDEA FOR SOME STUDENTS WHO ARE IN A RELATIONSHIP! Just imagine, you have X and Y, they break up, need to switch housing. The dean of housing would probably ask why, and the reason is they got into a huge fight or x cheated on y or vise versa.</p>
<p>I enjoy having a roommate of the same sex so we can discuss similar things, have similar interests, and don't fight over stupid things, not say all couples or males and females argue over little things. I would just hate the idea of rooming with my girlfriend. As it is, she gets pretty mad when I fart outside, imagine farting in our shared dorm room?</p>
<p>And thats why, Rutgers89, at Brown where there is coed housing (though shared rooms is new and extremely rare), few couples ever choose to live together. It's pretty obvious that has bad idea written all over it.</p>
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Well, I don't think you'll have a lot of awkward moments, co-ed dorms get their OWN bathrooms and seperate everything right?</p>
<p>so it's not like a naked dude/girl will walk on the hallways just like that...
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Maybe you don't get the difference between co-ed housing (buildings) and actual co-ed dorm rooms? Most dorm rooms don't have their own in-suite bathrooms.</p>