 Good morning. My name is Elliot and welcome to our you our home live tours We are here at Gregson Hall this morning Gregson Hall is one of our upperclassmen residence halls It serves over 200 students or about 203 And one of my favorite parts about Gregson is it's one of the oldest dorms It's one of the best remodeled dorms inside, but it's in a smack dab middle of campus So everything you could need is all around you so we'll give you a quick little pan of everything Yeah, what are we seeing here? Actually, I'm gonna show off the detail of the building Do you know how many floors it is? There are three residential floors in one basement Wow Beautiful architectural detail there Yeah, so it's nice because it's literally like right in the big middle of stuff So over here you have brough brough is not even a stone's throw away. That's where one of our main dining areas It's also got the Starbucks and the founders dining center So anything from Slim's chicken to the Olympus Greek style and there's Dixon right down there I think I'm pointed straight towards the Sun, but there's Dixon and then Gibson Gibson close to the Chai Omega theater and then over that way we have the bus station right down there So right down there and rainy or nice and cold don't have to walk in it, which is very nice And they're beautiful big tree right here. Yes So that was a 360 there Have you taken the bus before? Yeah, raise your back transit. Oh, yeah, where do you go? What do you use it for? Well, typically I just go around campus unless I get on the wrong bus And I took a 45-minute trip instead of a five-minute trip. So that was fun. Where were you going? I tried to go back to Maple Hill and I end up going all the way down to Weddington. So, okay All right. Well, let's go ahead and head inside. All right And if anybody has any questions feel free to ask them. We're happy to answer them as we go into Gregson Thank you for foving us in Kent And you know a lot of people who are here are going to be sophomores or juniors So they know about the fob system, but you mind just kind of explaining what that is So the way it works when you're giving it when you check in you'll be given a key and a fob And so what happens is the fobs will get you in and out of the building There are these fob readers by every door and what you'll do is you'll just pull the fob up to the reader It'll beep and it'll let you in and the nice thing is it's super secure because Only a Gregson fob can get into the Gregson building You can't be a pompering come here and try to get in so keeps out all the those underclassmen So let me show off this lobby. It's kind of small, but it's beautiful There's is that marble. I think that's marble right there Gregson Lodge Nice little chairs there And then these beautiful staircases lead down to the basement area which we're going to go check out here in just a moment The front desk is located right behind here Yeah, so the front desk is where you'll handle all of your mail I'm gonna go ahead and you can go up there and look at it and then go downstairs. Sure So front desk area Missy is our administrative specialist here, and I love miss missy. She does a great job But this is where she will be every day and the other nice thing is you'll have somebody here until midnight every single night Just in case you locked yourself out. You need something whatever you might need Somebody will be here until midnight every night And so if you look behind you there, have you ever locked yourself out? Oh Locked myself out naked locked myself out. Yeah, wow. Okay Go nice ornate looking mailboxes. And so if you get any packages, just send them here. Yeah, let's look at those over here sort of Good detail from the original building The way back. Yes indeed. Okay Well, great. Um, anything else about the front desk area? Should we go check out The basement area. We should go hang out downstairs. Let's go hang out, which is kind of where everybody hangs out Is what I hear the uh, the basement is the social hub of gregson And so they don't really have common areas on the floors themselves But the nice thing is they have this huge area downstairs where everyone can just come hang out the pool the ping pong Whatever you need, they also have a couple of study rooms And so we'll go out and show you what all is going on down there I don't know if you can pick up the detail here, but man these uh are shined up very nice waiting for Hundreds of feet to come across them in less than three weeks. Yeah, right It's coming up soon So now we're headed down into the common basement area And I mean basements kind of a misnomer because when you think of a basement you think of a place that You know, it's kind of a musty and tucked away. This is actually the center the center of life on In gregson, and it's wonderful. They have a reading section. They have any sort of like If you're watching want to watch any what was that again? I'm sorry. I lost you for a moment So one of the nice things is we have this nice little reading section right here Perfect for just some quiet time if you want to get away and get lost in a book That's this is the place for you and the other nice thing is they have a nice big tv around the corner So if you or your friends want to watch any sort of you know sports or anything like that You can just chill over here in this lounge section and be good to go And here's um recycling if you want to throw that stuff away Which we highly encourage This is a nice lounge. Yeah Nice and pretty nice big screen tv, which I had that in my room That is a nice big tv And uh from again from all I hear people use this space a lot. Oh, so all hours of the evening So if you you where did you live? I lived in hotz freshman year. Um, and where are you living right now? I'm in maple hill east. So would you come here occasionally socially? Oh, yeah, some of my upperclassmen friends they hang out here some of the people I work in conference services right now Some of our friends are going to be actually living here next year And so we're going to be here all the time hanging out and doing all sorts of fun stuff Very nice. So show us the rest of the spaces here. All right Well right in here. This is the main kitchen and the kitchen is huge. This is the biggest kitchen on campus I'd like to bet nice little ice machine and fridge Um fully decked out with a stove and oven. I mean, it's wonderful in here So if you want you and your upperclassmen friends when I hang out make some dinner together Maybe make some cookies before finals week. This is the place to be sure I mean, you know, we understand people want certainly you have a dining plan on campus But you know, hey, you may just want to cook your own meal with your friends And this is a great place to do that and sometimes cafeteria food, you know, you just kind of get done with it Yeah Take a little change of pace as they say exactly All right, right next door is the uh the laundry room and so Plenty of washers and dryers in here nice and spacious. They got a wash basin over there And then they have a holding table tucked away back here. Oh, I didn't even see that. Let's see. It's hiding. It is hiding Tucked away table. Okay So one of the nice things about what we did this summer is we had we just partnered with a new company And all of these washers and dryers are brand new So if you look right here, they have these qr codes on them And so what you can do is if you scan that with your phone It'll take you to their website and you can actually check to see What washers and dryers are occupied versus unoccupied so you don't come down and all of them are already used And the other nice thing is you can set notifications on your phone to be like Hey, your stuff's done or hey, you need to come move your stuff to the dryer So pretty high tech pretty nice laundry alert service. We're rolling it out this fall for you guys Um, and also I'll note that there are no coin receipt. There's no place to put coins here So that's all covered by your room fees. You don't have to worry about everything is free Bringing all the quarters and everything like that. So let's continue to move around. All right And again any questions that come in we're happy to answer as we tour the basement area of gregson So here is another entrance. It's down by uh, the band or the music building Pool to ours the night. You don't have to check it out at the front desk. They trust you enough now that you're upperclassmen Um, but pool vending machines and they have a co-ed restroom back here. Yeah, there's vending machines vending machine for any late night snacks, right Um, and we're also close to club red, right? That is true So club red is built into the first floor of grub And so that's where you can spend flex and get any sort of snacks or drinks or whatever you might need before Your class or even after class. I think it's literally well Yeah, literally across the street. We're just a little bit down. So probably 30 40 50 feet not even okay right there So there's a bathroom right there and then yeah, I'll follow you around. All right So behind me in through here. We have two private study rooms. And so here's one of them Um, nice. Let's go and walk in there. If you don't mind. All right nice Quiet area big whiteboard. So if you have any, you know math problems or physics or anything you need to be doing You can visualize up there. Um, this one's nice because it's nice enclosed in Um, it's it's more private than the other one just because it's smaller You don't really have as much room for uh, people to come in and be loud or anything like that But I like this one a lot. Yeah, and there's more than one. That's right. And so across the hull We are going into the big one right now popcorn machine. I just have to note A nice little popcorn machine. Yeah for study. There's a ping pong table right over there as well If you need to study break, of course, yes Ping pong is therapy as usual and then this is the more conference room style of study room So again big whiteboard, um, be able to visualize what you're working on But plenty of seats for plenty of friends You use whiteboards a lot. I do. I like to see what I'm doing It's a nice way to share what you're in the process of thinking about I agree in the process of genius Yes, I like to say whether or not they actually agree with that. We'll see So we can leave through here, right? Right next back to the lodge Say hi mr. Kent And so now we're going to go upstairs and actually go see a room and the bathroom Sure, can you tell us about the other office that's located in here too the I believe it's the enhanced learning center So the enhanced learning center or the ELC Um, that's where a lot of students can go for tutoring So if you want to be a tutor or you need tutoring, that's the great place to get connected They're also classes or somewhat like classes. They're called si's or supplementary instructions And so many classes offer an si where you can go you can get extra practice from a student teacher And typically the nice thing is if you attend si's and you go to all of them You can get bonus points at the end of the year. So I highly recommend that So is that what happened? You got some bonus points? Oh, and it saved my butt one time For going to the si's I think they offer a writer writing tutorship and Just all kinds of general academic help. So that's a nice resource to have in the building. Very nice. Yeah, okay We'll follow you on up. All right up from g to To right and so one of the things about Gregson is because it's such an it's an older building There's not an elevator in here, but it's nice because you're gonna have great camps by the end of the year Which I like to say Now um Typically Gregson and Gibson are administered as far as housing goes together, right? And as soon as I heard them refer to as the g unit because they're both together like that That's right. And the nice thing is the as the coordinator for residence education over those buildings is mr. Eric Hall And he is phenomenal. I cannot speak highly enough about him About Greg Hall, yes All right. All right. So now we're on the floor. We are on the floor. Let me point out this little space here So there's no common areas necessarily, but there's a little Sitting area right there. Just a little hangout spot one another one down there window. Yeah And so the way it works kind of it's like a it's a sideways eye So you have each little wing on the side and then one long hallway in the middle And so there'll be two restrooms. It's split. So guys will be on one side girls will be on the other side Um, and so it's split smack dab in the middle. Gotcha So this right here is one of our restrooms And it's uh, actually one of our favorite restrooms Because it's uh, technically a ladies room. Yes, but if we go in and look around Well, the yes the uh architecture was built when this was both male and female So you have a nice little touch there of using that decoratively So let's see This is the shower area Let's go ahead and head in there and show everybody what the shower looks like. You want to leave us in there? All right, so I think I'd be in the shower with you, but here we go Well, I hadn't been in here until about a year ago I'm about to go on to my junior year. So I never really got an experience here But when I first came in here, I was blown away by the bathroom. It's like private shower area We're the changing area. There's three of them in every bathroom inside there and give them a look So you have the common sort of sitting area here But then you also have a pretty spacious big Shower area right here as well. There's the areas as well. So And there's how many there's three in each bathroom three in each bathroom. There's two bathrooms on the floor And so plenty of space, plenty of toilets, and then I really like how spacious the uh, The vanity section is, the hand washing area I love this bathroom a bit So you need to check yourself out in the morning. This is the perfect place to be There are there's what six I think I believe so Very nice Nice upper classroom bathroom there nothing but the finance for y'all What year are you? I'm about to be a junior about to be a junior rising junior. That's right. And what do you study? I am an honors finance major. Okay What would you like to do with that? I'd love to help people, you know manage their money a little bit better and uh, you know prepare for retirement Be able to take care of their families up like that. All right. All right. I'm Useful stuff. That's right. So walking down the long corridor of the second floor So this is the split Split from male to female side. Okay. So now we're on the male side And then we're gonna go into room 201 here. So this is a typical Gregson room Gregson room and what I love about these rooms is they're huge like there is plenty of room for whatever you need So you should take it all in for a moment Two of everything Here's the new cable hookup, which we're doing a prep your tech Session tomorrow and we'll talk more about the cable system that we're you doing from Cox Oh, it's gonna be very nice this year all hd So, um Yeah, thanks for opening that up And can you open that cubby? I can't we'll see if I'm talking about yeah, there you go Okay, so a nice little cubby space for whatever you want to put there And then if you wouldn't mind maybe opening up one of these dressers Thank you Yeah, and are there is the bottom one are they all the same size? They are all the same size Okay, so you've got three that are the same size And then we've got the beds in here and the beds are regulars Or excels they're 20 cells Extra long extra long so that's 80 right? Yes, sir. 80 inches long And we've got the desk area Do you want to go ahead and pull out one of the chairs? Yeah, let's show them the the chair trick Can you do the chair trick for us? So that's really your walking chair essentially And either a stool or a table if you're using a rocking chair Yeah, I've heard that these are very good for gaming. Okay, so the console gaming leaning back Fantastic. Well, are there any questions about the room as we're walking around in here? Can we know everything? Yeah, right We don't we try to get you the answers. Okay Well, that is fine. Let's go then to the um Corner room and finish out there because the view is just so good Even for a second floor. It's a really good view It is it is direction isn't the tallest buildings, but you still get a very nice view of everything So plenty of staircases. Yeah, there's two staircases. All right, and then there's two on each corner as well So you'll have four per floor. So you got options When you want to go up and down sure here's the other restroom. Yes the man's men's restroom on this floor So this is the uh part of that eye you mentioned because there's an eye on each floor Okay So then if you're in a corner room and this one is is 214 This would be what you will see I think it's a little bit bigger and it's got double windows instead of just one window, which is very nice The other nice thing about the rooms is each one has individual thermostat use So if you like it cold and your neighbor likes it hot, that's fine. So you get to make whatever you want to be Let's take a look at this very nice view Which you can see Let's see. You can see the Ozark Mountains right there Not bad. And then there's some parking right here as well. So good to be aware of and that that is um Uh, Yoko, where's that Humphreys? Let's see, which one we look at. The first one is Humphreys, the one behind it is Yoko Right. Okay. So that gives you some sense of where you are All right. 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