<p>Which freshmen dormitory is directly across from the baseball stadium? </p>
<p>And how are the communal bathrooms at AMR II? How many showers are there? How many people would you typically be sharing with? Etc..</p>
<p>Why does Hopkins not allow people to bring microwaves or refrigerators but allow students to rent them from the school? Is JHU just trying to make some money?</p>
<p>Most schools have rules about microwaves, some about refrigerators. One of the reasons is electrical overload. Limiting it to appliances you can get through them means they are proper wattage etc and you won't have the dorm constantly having power outages/surges.</p>
<p>Yeah, the thing about not being able to bring your own microwaves and fridges prevents electrical overload. The microfridges that you rent from the university have combined electrical systems that go to one plug, so you're not going to short circuit the system.</p>
<p>Buildings A and B are the dorms closest to the Baseball stadiums (Building B backs up to it) but AMR II sortof backs up to that field as well, it's just farther away.</p>
<p>Oh, and regarding the communal bathrooms, you can see photos of them on Siobhan's Guest Blog for Hopkins Interactive, where she photographs her dorm in Hollander house (part of AMR II)</p>
<p>Hopkins</a> Interactive Guest Blog: Hopkins Cribs: AMR II, Hollander House</p>
<p>So, as you can see, 3 sinks and 3 toilets, but it really isn't a problem. She mentions that she's never had to wait for a bathroom or a sink, and I lived in the AMRs 3 years ago and I never had to either. Everyone in college has such different schedules, it's not like we're all trying to take showers before our 9 am class and are all in there at once. </p>
<p>Plus, you're not even sharing it with THAT many people. Each floor has its own 2 bathrooms that get shared with the adjacent house. so there's about 12 rooms sharing the 2 bathrooms, so 6 rooms per bathroom (because the rooms are divided equally by gender) and singles and doubles usually alternate, so probably about 9 people share those 3 showers and 3 sinks</p>
<p>I live in AMR I and I can say it is not what you think. I was mortified when I discovered I was in AMR but I can say, it is not bad at all. When I take showers, I am almost always the only one in the bathroom, and they are cleaned every day.</p>