<p>At emory where ill be going theres the option of doing coed rooms. Whats it like having a roomate of the opposite sex?</p>
<p>I don't know anything about Emory's policies, but this is a growing trend. Most places it's done out of sensitivity to homosexual students. From what I understand, it's rare for heterosexual "couples" to request rooms together because (precisely to discourge this) many colleges make it hard to change roommates under this arrangement if there's a breakup. </p>
<p>Here's a link to a farily extensive thread about the policy at Davidson. A search will turn up a few similar threads about other colleges:</p>
<p>I don't know how much of it is co-ed roommates, but there's a big trend for co-ed floors/dorms. Where I go to school, it's not so much for "homosexual" students as for students who identify with a gender different from their assigned birth-gender so that they won't have to live in a situation that will make them uncomfortable or possibly threatened.</p>
<p>I've lived on a coed floor before and it was fun. Now I live in a coed house, and next year I'll have a roommate of the opposite sex. We're good friends, so I don't see any problems happening there. You just have to be considerate, is all, and make it clear that you won't tolerate any kind of sexual harassment. Fortunately, my future roomie and I are on the same page.</p>
<p>That "Coed by room" your reffering to I beleive doesn't actually mean they will assign you a roomate of the opposite sex. It just means you can live on the same floor of the same hall without any sort of division.</p>
<p>"Coed Hall, Coed by floor: Building is coed and both males and females live on the floor though typically there is some division, such as a stairwell or lobby, resulting in males on one end of the hall and females on the other end.</p>
<p>Coed Hall, Coed by room: Building is coed and both males and females live on the same floor and there is no division."</p>
<p>I could imagine it being a little awkward on several occasions :p</p>
<p>It shouldn't be too much of a problem as long as your roomie is understanding and your both mature enough to handle it.</p>
<p>Wow all this talk of how much of a novelty it is to just have coed floors and dorms, let alone rooms. All the floors/dorms at UCLA (save for one floor) is coed.
As for a coed room, I imagine it wouldn't be bad if, like was said before, you both are mature enough to handle it.</p>
<p>where's the non coed floor?
never heard of it xD</p>
<p>i WISH UCLA had coed rooms. i'd much rather live with a guy than a perfumania 2hourshower makeupgiggly chitchat girl...</p>
<p>I room with my boyfriend, but off-campus. It's really common at my school to do this.</p>
<p>You've gotta admit though, it'd be pretty sweet rooming with a hot girl.</p>
<p>^ Yeah. Liyana let's trade!</p>
<p>Mmm yeah, until that hot girl starts bringing home friends (who are not you)</p>
<p>"Mmm yeah, until that hot girl starts bringing home friends (who are not you)"</p>
<p>...</p>
<p>Sandwich</p>
<p>Ummm, I don't think that are very many coed rooms, just coed floors. There will be an all guys suite who share a bathroom and then the next suite over will be all girls. But, no girls and guys sleeping the same room (with the school knowing) is common.</p>
<p>Co-ed is safe. It's same sex where you have to watch out for the seductive HOMO-sapiens!</p>
<p>no big deal</p>