<p>Hello I'm a freshman who is going to be studying a BFA in theater, I really want to get on a fun freshman dorm but i would love to avoid communal restrooms (at all cost) I'm trying to decide if i should stay on north and be close to the smtd building and live in Bursley, or go to central. I'm not as worried about dorm size as much as sharing a bathroom with a bunch of people
if you guys could give me advice that'd be so great :D</p>
<p>What’s your issue with communal restrooms?</p>
<p>Bursley has communal bathrooms.</p>
<p>Most of the dorms have communal bathrooms. I think you have to choose Northwood, Baits or Oxford to avoid them.</p>
<p>okay of those three which one is best? or do you think i should just suck it up and do communal bathrooms? I just really don’t like sharing bathrooms with a bunch of people tbh</p>
<p>I was worried about communal bathrooms years ago when I attended college, but you get used to it. </p>
<p>At least with the communal bathrooms, someone else cleans them for you.</p>
<p>Are there any private bathrooms in the south quad? I honestly couldn’t live with communal bathrooms.</p>
<p>My thoughts coming from a freshman who lived in Bursley going into his sophomore year: If you can suck it up with communal bathrooms, I would do that over the others. They are really no problem at all, you’ll just see people in the bathroom. The reason I wouldn’t do NON-communal bathrooms is because you’ll have a better dorm experience in dorms with communal bathrooms, that is, if you’re social. I knew people who lived in Northwood and Baits that barely talked to people outside of their building where as my floor in Bursley, along with other floors really bond much better. You always see the same people and are always hanging out/talking with them. The people in Northwood and Baits always told me they wished where they lived felt more like a community. Just my opinion anyway from what I see and have experienced.</p>
<p>I can’t believe you guys are willing to take the worst dorms on campus just to get the private bathroom. It isn’t nearly worth it. I don’t see any issue with communal bathrooms. You guys need to just grow up and deal with it. What’s the big deal?</p>
<p>If you don’t like communal bathrooms, you probably want to avoid the co-ed bathrooms. East Quad had co-ed bathrooms when I was there in the late 70’s. Is that still the case? (I know EQ is closed for renovation next year and the RC is temporarily moving to WQ.) The stalls/sink areas were co-ed. Shower areas were single-sex with every other bathroom on each floor being male or female. No one cared.</p>
<p>Do any of the dorms today have co-ed bathrooms?</p>
<p>haha I miss communal bathrooms. As mentioned, someone cleans it for you and for the most part they are clean. I miss those days.</p>
<p>Choatiemom, none of the bathrooms are co-ed anymore. Each student has a key card whicl will only open the bathroom assigned to their sex. If you have an opposite sex guest, they either need to use a guest bathroom or you need to get a friend or the RA to open the door for them.</p>
<p>I lived in East Quad in 2009 and my experience was that some RAs enforce that it is against the rules to allow members of the opposite sex into your bathrooms, and some don’t. It IS against the rules, however, and in this day and age a lot of people do care.</p>
<p>Well that’s terribly disappointing. And needing a card to open the bathroom door is outrageous (I don’t buy any arguments for security) – what if it’s an “emergency” and you left your key card in your room? Ooops, then you can’t get back into your room either, right? This whole lockdown thing is just sad, and I don’t believe for a minute that anyone is any safer. The fearmongers have ruined the experience for everyone.</p>
<p>Oh well, at least I have my memories of mixed giggles coming from the shower room while brushing my teeth at the sink next to my boyfriend…</p>
<p>I was glad to live in one of the halls where the RA enforced that rule. Once while I was alone in the shower late at night, some unknown girl keyed two very drunk men who did not live with us into our bathroom, and it scared the crap out of me! I was naked with nothing but a flimsy shower curtain blowing in the wind to cover me and they were two strangers I’d never laid eyes on before just hanging out in our bathroom for no apparent reason. I understand times have changed in the last few decades, but I was raised in a world where that is not only inappropriate but not safe. Of course not every strange man you see is a rapist, but unfortunately in this day and age you can’t just assume that every stranger you encounter is harmless, either-- especially not drunk, alone, in the middle of the night. That’s why there are unlocked unisex single bathrooms on just about every floor for guests, and why the RA has the key to both bathrooms… it’s just not a necessary risk to take, at least not at East Quad where there is ample opportunity to use the restroom in a bathroom assigned to your own gender. There’s just no reason to be alone in a public restroom with strangers of the opposite sex in the middle of the night unless that’s what you want to do.</p>
<p>That said, if any women besides me are bothered by this, I’d encourage you to consider one of the girls houses because the rumors I heard were that not many RAs enforced this… that may or may not be true, I only know that my own RA did when I lived in East Quad. After that I had a private bath at newberry anyway. 
I know not everybody is bothered by this sort of thing, but some people are.</p>
<p>This thread should be titled ‘Bathrooms at the University of Michigan’</p>
<p>Okay so i was wondering, do any of the freshman dorms in central have semi private bathrooms (one that you would share with only like three or five other people?) and if so what are they?</p>
<p>Nothing that you’ll get as a freshman.</p>
<p>Dude, the best you can do is Northwood (which is the worst location on campus) where you share with two other guys. Not worth it. Chances are your roommates will never clean the bathroom, which means you’ll be cleaning up after others. Just suck it up, at least the communal bathrooms get cleaned daily.</p>
<p>Okay so another question, if i’m doing smtd would it better to live on north and be with people in my program but be in less nicer dorms, or live on central, maybe not be with people in my program but have a better dorm experience?</p>
<p>Every Freshman is afraid of communal bathrooms, but it’s not like one big shower room in gym class. You will still have privacy. I’d choose a central dorm location (West Quad, South Quad, The Hill dorms) over a private bathroom</p>