<p>Its usually just upperclass dorms, but I do know of gender blind housing wherein you could have coed rooms, just not on a forced level, and definitely not first year.</p>
<p>I live in a coed building, I'm on the only girls floor, and the floors above and below me are all guys. It really wouldn't matter if it was all girls because guys visit late into the night, every night, anyway. Next year I'll have a single room on a coed floor. It'll be all good as long as we don't have to share a bathroom. I don't mind guys seeing me walk down the hall in my robe, and I definately don't mind seeing the guys in their robes and towels, but even though they only visit, the guys leave our bathrooms so nasty that I dread going in on the weekends when they aren't cleaned. I didn't used to think that cleaning the bathroom every day was necessary, but now I know it's essential, or the health department would come seal off the building! </p>
<p>As for the shower set up, I have the typical communal bathroom with 3 toilet stalls, 4 sinks, and 4 shower stalls. There are cynder block partitions between the showers that are taller than the average girl. You would have to get a step stool to peak over at someone and there are curtains going across the front of every shower. People would have to put effort into it to be able to see you in the shower. Don't worry about it.</p>