<p>There are actually 5 dining halls on campus, including in the campus center (it is on the meal plan). However, the 4 dining halls that are within dorms can be accessed without leaving the building by 9 dorms total. For example, McAfee, Bates, and Freeman Halls are all connected to Bates dining hall, despite being separate dorms. There are five larger dorms that do not have in-building access to a dining hall (Dower, Shafer, Beebe, Munger and Lake), although each is very close to a dining hall. Finally, there is a smattering of small, specialized residence halls that also don’t have dining halls, but first-years don’t live in those. </p>
<p>There are some medical exceptions, but for all intents and purposes, all First-Years and Sophomores live in doubles and a very few quads and triples (truly a small percentage). Most seniors and juniors live in singles, although they are not guaranteed to all upperclasswomen. </p>
<p>I think the bathrooms are pretty nice. My first year I lived in Freeman, and the bathrooms were pretty new and nice. There was one main bathroom on each floor, with I think 4 showers and 4 toilet stalls, and every other floor had a single stall bathroom (there were laundry rooms in that space on the floors that didn’t have the single stall bathroom). By single stall, I mean one enclosed room with a tub/shower combo, sink, and toilet. The other new dorms (McAfee and Bates), are of the same type and layout. My sophomore year I lived in Beebe, and the bathrooms weren’t great. HOWEVER, over last summer they renovated all the bathrooms in Beebe, Pom, Caz, and Shafer, and they are quite nice now (I’ve been). There are two bathrooms per floor in these dorms. This past semester I lived in Tower, and the bathrooms aren’t as new but they are well-maintained and overall not bad at all. Tower is very big, and is divided into East and West, so there are 4 bathrooms on each main floor (two on each side). The first and upper floors are smaller, and so there are only 2 bathrooms on the 1st and 5th floor and 1 on the 6th (only 10 people live on that floor). </p>
<p>As you can see, there is great variance in the number of bathrooms, depending on how many people live on the floor, and obviously I haven’t lived in every dorm or even seen the bathrooms in every dorm. Overall, though, I have been pleased with the bathrooms (even the unrenovated Beebe bathrooms weren’t terrible), and I have never found that there were an insufficient number of either toilet or shower stalls (I’ve never had to wait, for example). </p>
<p>The cooking facilities also vary. In the new dorms, each floor has a full kitchen. In Beebe, there is a kitchen in the basements and kitchens or kitchenettes on each floor except perhaps the fifth (there also isn’t much of anything on the first floor, although there is a fridge and cooktop). In Tower there are two kitchenettes on each floor, although they don’t have ovens as far as I recall (I would never need an oven, so I never looked).</p>