<p>which east campus male/co-ed dorms have private showers? by private showers, i mean non-communal, non-prison style showers.</p>
<p>All east campus showers have walls and/or curtains separating each “stall.” Matheson, Hopkins, Perry, and Field have individual stalls with walls on the side and showers curtains on the front. I think most (if not all) of the other east campus dorms simply have shower curtains that wrap around you. None of them are open.</p>
<p>Can anyone give anymore info?</p>
<p>I chose Hopkins as my first choice and am in the freshman experience, and Id rather have co-ed dorms, any advice?</p>
<p>As far as I know, InPursuit’s answer is correct but a bit misleading since “Shower curtains that wrap around you” == “Prison showers with drapes.” If you sleep in Glenn during FASET, you will know exactly what I mean.</p>
<p>Anyone know anything about West Campus?</p>
<p>I’ve lived in West Campus for the past three years. What would you like to know?</p>
<p>Well, I guess we could stick with the showers subject? Also, anything in particular that you like about West Campus?</p>
<p>The showers in Folk, Caldwell, Armstrong, and Hefner all have “individual stalls with walls on the side and shower curtains on the front.” They’re far more private than the showers in Glenn and I assume Towers.</p>
<p>I prefer a quiet environment, and West Campus is much quieter than East Campus, which is located alongside the highway. In terms of hall dynamics, if you live in a West Campus dorm, you will become very close to the people on your hall. It’s very common for people who lived in a West Campus freshman dorm to continue to room together in apartments.</p>
<p>Do they even have changing areas in the stalls of showers?</p>
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<p>The showers in Folk, Caldwell, Armstrong, and Hefner do not have changing areas in the stalls. It’s just walls on the side and one curtain in the front, not two.</p>
<p>I’m sure some people are reading this thread and thinking, Gosh, these people are so immature. At least for the year I came in, Glenn was a highly desired freshman dorm, and its residents seemed to be very happy. The shower situation there is not a major issue, but I don’t believe there’s anything immature about wondering what exactly the administration was thinking when they approved that shower layout. I love our school, but I think it definitely suffers from “design by committee” syndrome in multiple areas.</p>
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<p>Very few colleges have changing areas inside of showers in dorms. </p>
<p>I can’t find a picture (I highly recommend that you do not google “Dorm Shower” or “Community Shower” while at work), but the general layout is as described above:</p>
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<li><p>either a single shower stall with three walls and a curtain in front (so people can see your feet) with just enough room to move around (about 3’ x 3’ or less) or </p></li>
<li><p>a community shower with curtains between everyone (think of a grid of curtains with a shower head in every grid) about the same size (3’ x 3’ or less). </p></li>
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<p>How do you “dress”? You walk into the shower wearing just a towel and you come out of the shower wearing just a towel. If you’re modest, you might wear a robe in and out or a towel + shirt in and out. Or, you might shower at odd times when the bathroom is probably empty (most people shower in the morning, so if you shower at night, the bathroom won’t be as crowded, especially after midnight).</p>
<p>Community bathrooms are the worst part of college. But you get used to it after awhile.</p>
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<p>The bathrooms were constructed to have no curtains because it’s more efficient space-wise to have a bunch of shower heads that go into common drains. Sometime around the 70’s (well after the dorms were constructed) people became more conscious of privacy and the school needed to figure out a way to add privacy in bathrooms given the existing layout (hence, curtains).</p>
<p>Go into an “old” bathroom sometime: toilets with no stalls, showers with no privacy, etc. Prisons and the military frequently still use those designs.</p>
<p>Which FE dorms are most likely to be filled up first? Let’s just say that I did my housing app not too long ago - what are my chances of getting into one of my first 3/4 choices (which are on west campus)?</p>
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<p>If you specify roommate preferences but not a specific roommate, your chances are very, very good.</p>
<p>What’s the verdict on choosing your roommate versus going random? Is it usually a mixed bag of good matches and bad matches?</p>
<p>I’ve never had a bad random roommate, but of course not everyone recommends it. I think the key is communication. Ninety-nine percent of the time, talking to your roommate resolves issues. Set fair policies with each other, and you ought to be alright. (I have actually experienced the remaining one percent, however, where talking to my roommate actually made things worse.)</p>