Does typical college life reinforce gender roles in society (Serious question)?

As a high school senior whose life is currently nothing but school and filling out applications, I've come to wonder the title question for when I head to college. I'll say first hand I don't have real experience at colleges beyond spending a few weekends hanging out, so this is truly a hypothetical question.

The main reason I think this is the distinction between floors\halls\dorms in a school. At the school I'm headed to, they're separated by floors and sometimes halls as women only or men only. As incoming freshmen arrive and try to acclimate, they'll group around the people closest to them (physically closest that is). This is their roommate, and then their floor and dorm. This, to me, seems to lend itself towards forming groups of men and women respectively in the early developmental stages of the relationships that then go out and interact with each other on a wider scale.

Other things such as classes and social organizations that are co-ed help to break down these barriers, but I think at this point the relationships have already started to form. If you go into a class of people you don't know except for the guy across the hall, you'll sit with him first, and then get to know people around you. Same with a club.

Now, even if the above is true more traditional male\female groupings don't necessarily mean traditional gender roles, but I think it might. I've seen from personal experience that when you group larger portions of either sex together they tend to gravitate towards the more "traditional" interests of the sex (Sports for men and clothing for women being the most stereotypical), whereas if they're in-between a 65/35 and a 50/50 split the "group" tends to be much more neutral about these topics and will instead focus on a more unifying element (such as Theatre, Music, ect).

These groupings then tend to form into the long term relationships of an adults lives, and if they're brought together through traditional interests of the sex rather than true interests of the person, I feel like this would lead to the older held attitudes of the two sexes.

I wonder this because I've found that personally I get along much better with women than I do with men. (But straight, go figure.) I don't know why, I just somehow find it easier to relate to what women are thinking\feeling. Thus I worry as to forming relationships in college.

What is Reddit's take on this?

Tl;dr Colleges = friends based on gender rather than interests?