 here at the university as a nursing major and I'm from Bayville so feel free to ask any questions. I'll be behind the camera today so I'll see all your comments and we'll be sure to answer all those for you guys. So right now we are outside of Hockham Hall. It is home to our international student population as well as our ISS, the International Students and Scholars Office. So if you are an international student living here, that's gonna be a really good place for you to have post a home. Hockham Hall is also right across the street from our Pat Walker Health Center. It's been newly renovated so it's nice and ready for you guys when you arrive in the hall. Where your dining hall is going to be, full bright dining hall. I highly recommend the ice cream, the saucer of ice cream. It's delicious and then they have great stir-fry, pasta area and great almonds in the morning. So look forward to that and then next door is going to be Future Hall. You can't really see it from right here and then the bookstore. So you have really great access to lots of great things on campus. You're directly on Garland and Maple which is a great spot for you to be. You're close to the center of campus, you know the union. So and then the library is like right a five minute walk away. So if you're there late at night you can just hop right on over. So I guess we can go inside now. If you guys have any questions please let us know. We'll love to answer them. We're going to be touring the hall and some of its features. See a room in the bathroom and if you have any questions ask us. Let us know where you guys are from. We love to hear that. Courtney's from Arkansas and I'm from Texas so we have a little fan to go back and forth but which is better? Of course we know which one is. Texas. Oh ho ho ho ho. That's what I already said. Front lobby area of Holcomb Hall. It's going to have your front desk. It's also where you can access the ISS office. It's being renovated right now so we can't go in there but when you guys come in the fall you should be sure to stop in there. It's a really great office. I think they're located over here right now. They're located over here for now while they're being renovated. But then it'll be to the left of the front desk. So we'll come over here and we can go inside this little lounge area right here. It's going to be accessible for you guys coming in the fall. It's just being used right now. But it's a great little place that there's chairs and places to hang out. So you should be sure to stop in here in the fall and hang out with your friends. Get to know people. I really encourage that you you know get out of your room those first couple days. Get to meet people. It'll be a great experience for you. I think there's another study room up there and yeah international students and scholars is in this office right now. It's just redoing it. There's additional space. So we'll go into the great room which is going to be off of the front hall. It's going to have a sink, a fridge and a microwave. So if you know you want to have a little snack with your friends and hang out in the big room you can store it down here and come get it later. Be sure to wash your own dishes. Keep it clean for everybody because everyone uses it. But yeah it's a great little space to store things you don't always have to have a fridge in your room. You can just store things in here. So you can save on space in your room. You can have more seating for friends and less functional. This right here is called the music room because of the grand piano. If you guys have any musical talents you should be sure to stop in here. It's a great way to like introduce yourself to people and to make friends. I can't play. Try to learn as a kid. I haven't really got the hang of it but I'm sure some of you guys here have the talent. So Nick commented and said that he stayed here last year and he's staying here again. Love the storm a lot so much to do. Yes there is so much to do in this one. This is a very active door. Hey Nick. Nice to meet you. So yeah music room. There's some trophy cases in here for things to take one of the past. So you know this campus is full of activities and things to do. If we come through here we're going to stop in at I think it's called just like the living room area. The parlor I think they refer to it. But it has a great seating, a full table. You can sit in here. There's great little windows, the area to sit down, read a book, hang out. I knit. So this would be a great place for you to knit or crochet if you're into that. There's a nice fireplace which I'm sure they'll turn on in the winter. Keeping nice and cozy in here. Great. More seating. But this is also where they hold a global series every month where an international student will showcase their country and so you can come down here eat some food from a different country and learn just some more about the world which is a really great experience here in Holcomb. Last year we had one on Japan. Yes. Maybe one on Honduras. Oh that's interesting. There was one, wow there were just a ton of them. But yeah if there's a country that you really want to try the cuisine I'm sure if you like if there's an international student here you should encourage them to do that because it's a great experience for all students. And did we say how many international students live here? So the building costs about 140 students and it's about a 50% ratio of international students. So there's quite a lot but there's also a lot of regular just traditional students who live in this building so it's not just international students. I encourage even if you're not an international student you should come hang out here get to know the people. They are I had some international buddies last year and they were really great. Nice to meet them. They came home with for Thanksgiving with me and so it's always a great experience to just get to know different people from different cultures. So you like opened your home to them on Thanksgiving. Yeah they came they drove down with me for the week and saved me and my mom. Those are really great tips into our Thanksgiving. Very cool. And international education LLC is located in here as well. Which is one of our living learning communities. So we're going to come down here and make our way to the basement. Did we show off the mail? Yes. So a part of the university, your mailbox is going to be here in Hulkin Hall but your packages you have big packages they'll go to Northwest Quad across the street. So that's where you'll get an email when you get a package from the university. You have to wait for the university email because it might take some time for them to process it. But you'll get an email you'll go across the street use your student ID and pick up that package. So we can stop over here. So each building comes in close with a fog security system. It keeps you safe that means you have to live in this building in order to get into the building. And so there's an extra level of security because there's an office in here. That means you have to fog into the stairwells and into the elevator. So that means that no one who's just walking around here who doesn't belong here. You have to go get your friends. And let's point out international students and scholars even though they're under construction right now. So this is the office. It's being renovated. It'll be nice and pretty for you guys to get here in the fall. And you're really moving their materials back in slowly. Charlie, where's Bragas? Yes. You can come to advising in here. It's like that. Occasionally we lose our contact while we're in the elevator. So just be aware it'll come back. We have to fog into the elevator in order to get around. So make sure you always keep your keys on you. And if you do lose your keys you can always get a loaner set until you can find them or if you can't find them until they can replace them. You just go to the front desk and they can work that out with you. There is a charge for losing your keys but we better to lose them and tell someone then lose them and not tell someone. Yeah. So this is the basic level of pole gun. It's also currently under construction. They're redoing this common room down here but it's going to look so great when you guys get here in the fall. Yeah over the years it's you know a little bit weathered as things do and this bright new paint is going to really activate this room and make it look much. There's going to be a pink palm table and a pole table in here. So if you have a game you should be sure to bring that when you come in the fall because I know many pink palm tournaments go on in here. So this is going to come into our full kitchen area. There's a tiny one upstairs but downstairs is where the actual kitchen is. So it's going to come with a stove and an oven, a sink and a full fridge and a microwave. There's also storage if you have things that you need to store down here. But again that's at your own like this bowl. Like if you feel comfortable with that you don't have to. What's one of the best between the two of you? What's one of the best meals you can make in the residence hall itself? Pizzas, tacos, cookies. Cookies are always popular. And brownies. Brownies and cookies. Brownies. I know since this is an international dorm you might get someone who's making some different type of cuisine. So you know stop in make some friends maybe they'll share with you. So with cookies you just get the roll and you just slice them. You can check out materials upstairs at the front desk and then you can just come down here, bake your cookies, clean it, return it upstairs, get your ID back. And the king or queen of the residence hall. You will make friends that way. You make cookies, you make friends. Cookies equal friends. It's a great place to you know meet people and hang out and experience a different culture. So down here is just some more residence halls. There are people who live on the basement level. So you'll have rooms this way and then this way. And then there's a common bathroom down here but I think we're gonna go upstairs first. Yeah I think we'll show a community bathroom upstairs. Yeah does anyone have any questions for us? So far Holly wants to know what the dimensions are in the single cell room. Water. Oh yes so another big thing for the university is our water bottle filters. It helps save us plastic because everyone's not using plastic water bottles all the time. I think this past year we stayed 17 tons of plastic which equals like 130 tons of plastic over the past five years. So you know we're really committed to you know keeping plastic out of the landfills and just being sustainable on campus. So yeah you can just get a reusable water bottle and just fill her up. Just so much easier to use in those old water fountains. Yeah. You have like twisted around. It's made for water bottles. Yes it is. And you can feel better about saving the earth one water bottle at a time. One water bottle at a time. Do you have a water bottle that you carry around? I do have a couple of different ones. I have a big heavy I got for Christmas last year so I try to like fill that up like three times a day to get my water in. It's a lot of water. I know but it's been my goal this summer to drink more water. I need to do that. What about you do you have a water bottle you go metal or like wood? You know I prefer metal just because I don't know it's easier I think it keeps it cold too. So I have a couple that I come back and forth using. This is going to be your laundry room. It's going to have a four washers and six dryers over here. There's some tables so you can hang out down here if you're doing laundry but you don't have to because we have an app that you can download that you don't have to sit down here. It's called laundry alert so all you do is download it put where you are and it can tell you which washers and dryers are open and which ones aren't so you can put like an alert on it so when it's free it'll send you a message you can come down here put your laundry in go back upstairs do homework it'll be the game when it's done come get your laundry go back upstairs no mess no fuss that way you don't have to fight people for laundry machines you just already know which one's free there's no miscommunication about this one was my washing machine no it's mine because you knew which one was free but yeah and there's also an ice machine down here there's a tv down in this one so you can you know watch tv and want to do laundry down here and not leave there's some pink game machines and they take cash, card, apple pay, android pay so if you're hungry at night everything's closed come down here and grab yourself a snack head back upstairs oh yeah no going outside eat it uh there's gonna be a couple folding tables so you can fold your laundry down here because sometimes if you go upstairs with unfolded laundry they never get folded true there's also a lot of recycling down here so you can save the planet again sustainable you work is our recycling station you can also turn your laundry day into a party but you can figure out what to do about yourself try not to do it at you know a Friday night before like a big break that's not gonna work oh yeah everyone's gonna be doing a little laundry um a Sunday night after a large break don't try to do laundry it's not gonna work there's maybe too many people who didn't do laundry over the break and come back to loads and loads of dirty laundry um so you know if you're up if you know you're in the up late try to get your laundry in then because who's doing laundry at 11 o'clock except for you so that's a way to like make sure that you don't have to fight for laundry rooms for laundry machines either we'll go up to floor three then yes we'll see a common bathroom and then April Nick what what floor did you live on what room did you live in did Nick tell us he was from he lived here before he did say he lived here before so hopefully he's still watching he can tell us yes right security security so you can't press the button on the floor you want to go to until you fob in saying that you live here it will tell you it just won't light up if you don't live here many people will have sat in the elevator pushing a button wondering why the elevator is broken because you don't live there i thought it's broken does anyone already picked out their major know what they want to do Nick lived on floor two we're two we'll show this little study space i think so down here is going to be a tiny little big suey a little big suey there's the trash you by the way okay yes so you'll have a little chair area you can hang out here with your friends it's a work done there's a nice little view outside um great space to work plenty of plugs in here this is a 1949 building you'll see a lot of touches that are kind of you know older building and a lot of character to it yes yeah so this is the trash you so you can come down here throw your trash inside close it and it goes to the bottom so that way you don't have to drag your trash can all down to the basement floor which is really nice but do not put cardboard in the trash you i repeat do not put cardboard in the trash you it'll be very upset when they lock it and you're sad because then they have to go and like pull it all out and it takes time yeah your always are upset and the staff is upset just here's another one and how long were you in r.a i can hear i can tell the tone of your voice that you must have been yeah i was in r.a for two years um and maple hill south so not clogging the trash it's very near and dear to my heart yes this is another common space great couches to hang out in um you know you could throw like a piece of party in here or you know just hang out i'm sure you could bring someone's computer in here watch a game watch a movie just be together so nick told us that he wants to do hotel management with a minor in theater and holly will be majoring in architecture okay i was a science major and so i want to go into research and development so you know the next new snapper flavor that's me hopefully fingers crossed those are great great majors architecture especially yeah hotel management i know we have really good schools for the architecture building you know you're pretty close if you're living here it's about a five minute walk to the architecture building and then hotel management is that bumpers you probably yeah you're pretty close too if you're bumpers because only if it's other pat walker is the agriculture food and life science building so that might be your new home and the fine arts building is only across michael yes so you have a great location for all of those things do you know what you want to do Courtney with your major oh gosh there's so many options i think neonatal nursing would be really cool i really want to volunteer more and get a feel for so this is going to be the bathroom hello so this is going to be the common bathroom you're going to have great counter space five sinks great mirrors so you don't have to fight for mirror space in the morning you're gonna have toilets over here and then back behind us is going to be the shower areas so even before showers on this side you're going to have a little on play it's like you know get your stuff situated figure out what you're doing get dressed and then if you go further in that's where this shower actually is and it's a really great size shower plenty of space plenty of space to do things you set your stuff outside we would recommend that you bring a shower canny to help all your stuff so you're not holding everything when you're going back and forth between the bathroom shower shoes super important old navy yes sell some flip flops just get yourself a pair a cheap pair of flip flops it'll save your life you'll be just a little bit more thankful yeah i mentioned it when the videos earlier and when i was going through i guess with walmart earlier i saw 99 cents oh yeah flip flops hey that's the way to do it so um as i said i was an r.a so on each floor you're going to have a resident assistant who's going to be on the floor to help you um so if you have any questions need help adjusting they're going to be a great resource for you did you have a lot of students their first year come to you early in the year um i had some i had to go to a lot of them um but so i always really appreciate the ones who you know came and asked me questions so they're running to 318 yes so if you live in 318 this is your room so each room is going to have two beds two night stands um two sets of drawers two desks and two desk chairs along with the two closets and the storage above them so this is a really great size room you have plenty of space to you know have your own separate little area but each bed can be lofted to double the height right so you can put your desk and other things underneath it so when you move in this is where your bed will be and the last you turn in something online i believe it housing.york.edu backslash fix it forward slash forward slash fix it so close um but yeah that's where you can go to set up a maintenance request to have your bed lofted which you'll really want to do if you really do plan on doing that because if not you'll have to get here the day that you move in while your stuff will be here then you'll have to loft it yourself we recommend if you do that that you bring back a rubber mallet it's a really easy tool to have it can sometimes get hard to get out and so you'll need the mallet to knock them out yes if you are going to request that your bed be lofted please do that by the 30th of July yes that's really important 30th of July to make sure that your bed is actually lofted when you get here anything after that you know we can't really we can't say that it will be when you get here but yeah that's if you choose i know i had a problem getting in out of the bed so i had to lower mine but some people really do like having an extra space in the room so yeah i lofted my bed put um some plastic storage drawers under there so that there was just more room for me to store clothes and this extra stuff like that so we're looking here this is going to be your closet there's a mirror on the back of the door which is really nice um and then there's some shelving inside that we'll have pointy show you one of those shelves it's broken but we will get that fixed get that fixed for you guys it's really spacious yeah anytime you have any problems like that or something breaks housing that you are that you forward slash fix it and you just put the request in and housing will come fix it for you so light goes out you go to that you'll fix it and now it breaks the tower rack it breaks it'll fix it yeah another closet and then you're gonna have some storage above so if you need to store things you can put it there um yeah i'm short so i put the rest of things up there please this is your gonna be your chest of drawers it's really nice all this furniture is movable so you don't have to leave it like this you can move it around to however you like and just find whatever makes you guys most comfortable yeah if you guys want to measure anything while we're in here please let us know we'd be happy to do that i'm measuring she does why don't we go ahead and measure the mattress just just to do so 80 yeah got it yeah all right so that's 80 and then 85 about 35 36 probably oh yeah very good um so that's gonna be the bed and it's going to be about you know six inches thick so but there's also a firm and a soft side to the mattress i think the full excel certainly fits it um you know bedsheets by name by label do you have any room for which ones i don't need extra light sheets i did i did too yeah if you want a fit fitted sheet yes um do we get any other requests for measurements um there is one earlier there is one earlier um wanting to know the dimensions of a single style dorm do we offer this here single there was a dimension would be on housing dot your ddu underneath hulkham hall like on the campus communities page um and if you clicked on the room i believe it should tell you the dimensions of it we'll make it find out for you later did you have all of the dimensions for every residence hall on the website for you guys so we'll try to find that for you after this is over but yeah um so each room is going to have air conditioning um this is a building i think that switches over probably said most of them are that way yes this is a building that switches from cooling to heating that means when you guys arrive here in the fall it's going to be on cooling and then at some point it's going to switch to heating in the winter super quickly we changed it up about fall break yeah fall break sometimes it's latest Thanksgiving we really just try to do the best we can based on the forecast of weather yes and so um either way if it's on cooling it's going to blow cold air if it's on heating it's going to blow warm air you won't be able to switch back and forth but you can change whether or not the thing is running or not so that might be able to help when you need the temperature difference so if it's super hot on the december day and it's on heating you know you can turn the fan off open up a window open up your door you can also bring a fan um but the same difference is it's a really cold day in august for some weird reason you can't bring a heated blanket you can't bring a heater like a space heater because those are fire hazards so you're just going to have to use a blanket and use a blanket get some sweat sweatshirt sweatpants um we got opening the windows and the blinds and whatnot can really change the temperature of the room so just be mindful of that and play with it to figure out what makes you most comfortable yeah there's also wi-fi and ethernet in these rooms so you'll always have a connection and we do offer cable in these rooms um so you'll have access to hbo and whole slew of cable channels so all you have to do is bring a tv and we have the ports for you you just plug it and you have cable so i guess as long as there's not any more questions is there anything else you want to throw on there uh go to the go to all the things you can especially when you first get here we do like a slew of welcoming events so it's always great to go to to make friends get it like you know familiar with the campus um leave your door open when you guys first get here it's a great way to meet people on your floor getting like interested in things that you're interested in go to class use the class and then just enjoy your time here it's really a great campus community a part of and you're gonna have so many memories and so much fun we actually got another question from julie hi julie she said what is the height of the bed when it's in its highest position so each of these rooms is 36 inches tall and it can be doubled um which is 72 yes that yes yes so that's as tall as it can go and then the mattress is on that so about 72 inches i think it's the clearance yes and for me that was high up like 900 the higher it really is but you can also you don't have to put it that high up yeah if you can see there's little notches on the side and you just kind of to use just one you want to and just move it that's really easy um there is a lock on these doors that you guys have which is really nice you can lock them so you show them how that works so um when you put the lock in you're going to put it into the between these two holes and then lock it and it can't open and there's a lock on your class door you would need to bring your own lock if you choose to bring your own lock there are some towel racks on this door over here so you can put your towel up to let it dry when it comes to putting things that generally move after then to command hooks but at the same time you're at your own place as you can see there is like a pink patch over here that's because someone put the command hook up and didn't take it down properly so that means it peeled paint and you can you are liable to peel the paint yourself so be careful less is more um and just make it just waste but be mindful of how many you put up because you will have to take them all down when you put that yeah let's all of our questions so I guess just sign us off and you guys feel free to ask us questions even after this video is posted and I'll be sure to go back to answer your questions and you can join us tomorrow if you want for our northwest quad um tour it's going to be at 10 o'clock two o'clock and we will let you guys know but um it's on move yes I think it's only one farm it's at 10 a.m but yeah so join us for the other tours if you would like we're going to be doing some more next week about the different facilities that you have access to but yeah welcome to the university of arkansas welcome to housing we're really excited for you guys to be here at the fall thanks for joining me