<p>Ok not to freak anyone out, but I Hope UT, that is something to consider. I have a friend at a school in VA and she lives in a dorm with community bathrooms. When she was going down the hall she heard a girl scream and when she got there, the girl told my friend that she was showering and she sensed someone was right outside her curtain. Turned out a guy was behind her curtain getting off. She screamed her lungs out and he ran. </p>
<p>So yeah i’m not fond of the idea of community bathrooms at all. I’d rather pay the extra money for private or connecting.</p>
<p>The community baths have electronic locks on them; you need to key in a code to get in. It would be unlikely that a girl would give a boy the code to get into the shower room.</p>
<p>I guess it varies by college then because her school isn’t like that, neither is the University of Houston which I have personally visited. I’m glad to hear UT has electronic locks. There’s no coed bathroom right?</p>
<p>Have never seen a co ed bathroom in a UT dorm. Sounds unlikely to me.</p>
<p>In all of the dorms, there are electronic locks on the community bathroom doors in the residence areas and residents enter a four-digit code to get in.</p>
<p>In Kinsolving and the honors dorms there are “a row of toilets and sinks” rooms and there are “a row of showers” rooms. (Haven’t seen bathrooms in the other dorms.)</p>
<p>Carothers has rooms with about 5 stalls each plus a sink (2 of these per floor) and rooms with 6 showers or so each (another 2 per floor) and then each room has 1 sink.</p>
<p>What would be a good place to stay for a sophomore transferring to UT next fall? Not sure I want to bunk with a bunch of freshmen but if youd think that would be best since its my first year at UT (kinda like a freshmen?) let me know!! I need input I’m open anything from dorms to off campus housing I’m just seriously overly indecisive about this whole housing thing</p>
<p>Call a realtor and get an apartment. Rates start dropping steadily about now and even more so into August as the complexes get desperate to fill all of their rooms. You can get a great deal on a place in West Campus–I know complexes like the Block and the Quarters and Jefferson 26 might sell a room that would go for $900 during the school year for $600.</p>
<p>freebird04, I am not crazy about the idea of someone living in an apartment their first year in Austin - I think it would be better to be someplace with more students around. Just my opinion, though.</p>
<p>Have you considered the coops at all? They are another possibility as far as finding a place to have a lot of almost “instant” friends to hang out with from day 1 but not be surrounded by freshmen. Some people love coop living and others would not consider it in a million years - just thought I’d mention it.</p>
<p>okay, i’m thinking about applying for kinsolving housing. i don’t know if it’s good or not. are the private baths good over there? also, can someone tell me if it’s too late to apply now? </p>
<p>i’ve picked out a roommate and was wondering if it would be a good idea to live there. i’m an engineering major (freshman this fall) and he’s planning to major in bio (also a freshman this fall). is kinsolving too far from cockrell and the college of natural sciences, and is it too far from the gym (because i plan on hitting the gym a lot ).</p>
<p>how is prather? does it offer any private bathrooms? is it clean and neat? is it too far from cockrell and classes that are taken by engineering/science majors?</p>
<p>Prather doesn’t have private baths.
It’s on 21st Street between Speedway and San Jacinto. The engineering school is on Dean Keeton, about 5 blocks north. It’s not super far but it’s an uphill walk. The Whitis area dorms are about as far away, and you don’t want to live at Simkins, even though it’s closer. Simkins is a depressing place.</p>
<p>I haven’t been in them but they are comparable to the community bathrooms found at the rest of UT I would presume. It’s a bathroom, the place where you defecate. Nothing special.</p>
<p>All of this info is on the website and also has been answered before. Please, people, use the search function and the Google before posting.</p>
<p>All of the dorms are EXACTLY THE SAME quality-wise. They are dormitories–functional, safe, but not luxury apartments. The dorms aren’t any different and because there is high turnover we can’t tell you what the people there will be like next year.</p>
<p>But no it does not have private bathrooms. Only Duren, San Jacinto, parts of Kinsolving, and parts of Jester have private bathrooms.</p>
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