<p>Hi,</p>
<p>I want to ask the current students what it’s like to be in co-ed dorms. I’ve never been in a co-ed, so I thought I should try something new for college. </p>
<p>What are your opinions about the co-ed dorms? Is it better than the single-sexed dormatory?</p>
<p>Thanks.</p>
<p>i was in a co-ed dorm freshman year and a single sex floor this year. i definitely preferred the co-ed dorms as it was much more social. the bathrooms were separate anyway because the whole floor has to unanimously support the decision to make the bathrooms co-ed.</p>
<p>Times sure have changed.
When I was there (during the wild 80s) there were no single-sex dorms.
If you didn't want to live in a co-ed dorm, you went to a different school.</p>
<p>How are the showers? Dirty? Clean? Private?</p>
<p>Really, everything depends on hall to hall. Plus keep in mind that about half the freshman floors are coed so you won't necessarily get coed if you request it. </p>
<p>I live on a coed floor with 28 guys and 8 girls. Due to this, the girls naturally all demanded that the bathrooms stay single sex. :) So our bathroom is generally clean and empty. Bathroom cleanliness has nothing to do with gender either- I know some all girl's halls with worse bathrooms than the worst men's bathroom at my high school. </p>
<p>Soze, what do you mean by coed? Like, by room or by floor? I know a lot of my friends consider their dorms coed but girls and boys have different floors, which to me is single sex.</p>
<p>How are showers though? I heard they're communal.</p>
<p>That's the norm. :P On coed floors there's 2 shower stalls in each bathroom. And yes, they do have curtains.</p>
<p>Do they have places to put your stuff? Shampoo, Body wash, etc. Or do we have to bring something else to store it in while we're in there</p>
<p>WHAT???? COMMUNAL SHOWERS????</p>
<p>Is it one person per stall or like, 10 people per stall?</p>
<p>no, no, there is not one communal shower on campus. i think tobu heard wrong or someone mis-spoke. </p>
<p>this is college, not prison and not a JCC locker room</p>
<p>Communal showers simply mean there's one central bathroom per hall with several toilet stalls and several shower stalls. You don't get your own bathroom. It's one person per stall at any given time. </p>
<p>I know my CA got caddies for each shower that hangs in the stalls. Most halls don't, though. Everyone has their own little caddy to put on the floor for their bath stuff. You can't leave things in the shower.</p>
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Soze, what do you mean by coed? Like, by room or by floor? I know a lot of my friends consider their dorms coed but girls and boys have different floors, which to me is single sex.
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<p>If memory serve me correctly, the larger dorms (North, Masell) were "co-ed by floor" this was due the the fact that there was only a single bathroom per floor.</p>
<p>There were plenty of co-ed floors, however. For example, my freshman year in Ridgewood we had the opposite sex in the next room.</p>
<p>There were no single-sex buildings available at all back then. Are there now?</p>
<p>No same sex buildings. I thought that's what you were talking about. </p>
<p>Now that they've remodeled some dorms in North (specifically Scheffries and Gordon), there are 2 bathrooms per hall so the entire building is coed by room. The rest are coed by floor and we tend to consider those single sex just because of that environment. </p>
<p>Almost everything else is coed by room, except for some towers in the Castle (but that's soley because only 7 people live on each floor so only one bathroom). There's even been a push to change that to some buildings/floors being gender neutral by room, but I don't know if and when that will change.</p>