It's ironic. I thought that I wouldn't like being in an all girls, hall style dorm, but it turned out that I liked both elements. I've made a lot of friends through ECs but my core group is from my hall. I also think that hall style bathrooms are awesome because it means that if one toilet is messed up you have four more to choose from (same goes for showers). That was very nice. And somehow I have never ever competed with another girl for a shower during the busy times. In fact, I wonder if anyone else in my dorm showers because no one else is ever in there when I am.
The one complaint I've heard about Cobb is that the doors are so heavy that it's hard to prop them open, which can hamper you socially in those first few weeks. Having an open door policy is actually pretty important so I can see what people are saying - a few people have told me they actually would break their doors to get past this, even though I have no idea exactly what they mean by that.
If I had to pick again, I'd put Kenan as my number one choice (always), and then it's tied between the Old West and Mangum communities, then probably Cobb. Cobb is pretty nice, I just don't like its location. There are actually three rooms on our hall with junior girls who have been there for three years in a row now. If you go for north campus, definitely, definitely consider the Kenan community! I don't know much about south campus in terms of the difference between Craige and Ehaus, but it really is a different Carolina experience - and not one to dismiss, I'd say.
Listen to annn. I don't want to explicitly say to wait for people to swipe their flex pass and then follow them into the dorm because you won't be able to get in if you knock and ask the person working at the front desk, so, I'll just end my sentence there, shall I? I will not ever say something like that, because then there will be murders in Kenan and I'll feel pretty guilty.
I know when I start giving tours this spring I'll offer people to see my dorm room... they're okay with tour guides doing that, so you can always ask a tour guide, too.