 Welcome to the your home life tour of Gregson Hall. It's Friday July 13th. It's 10 a.m. So this is Gregson Hall. I'm Natalia Jones. I'm a senior here at the University of Arkansas. I'm studying food science and with us today is Courtney. Do you want to say hi? Hi guys. So I'm going to be videoing today. My name is Courtney. I'm about to begin my sophomore year here in New York. If you guys have any questions, we'll be answering all of them for you guys today. And feel free to comment while we're videoing and afterwards and I'll be sure to go through and answer all of those for you guys. We'll start up here today. So this is Gregson Hall. We're in the heart of campus right now. So around us we have Gibson Hall across the street along with Rough Dining Hall, Ruffa Go-Go. Next door you'll find a great middle trade options at Founders Hall. There are a lot of great options to eat around here and then right down the street is going to be the Union. So all your activities will be central on campus. Real easy to get to. Great place to be on campus. And then you have the great view of Fayetteville down there. Stadium is close by. It's really like the heart of campus. The heart of Fayetteville and a great place to be. Yeah. So I guess we'll go ahead and go inside now and we'll show you guys around Gregson Hall. Did you say where you're from? Oh I'm from Frisco, Texas. So about five hours away from here and a suburb outside of Dallas. Frisco huh? Yeah. How's our FOB system? Yes. So each building comes equipped with a FOB system for security-wise. So you have to live in a building to have a FOB for that building. So if you have guests coming over you'll have to come downstairs to get them and squirt them up yourself. But it's a great security measure that we have on campus, helps everyone feel safe at night. So this is the lobby area of Gregson. It's got a lot of great spaces. It's real like hotel-like. If you know what I mean. Great marbling, all that kind of stuff. It looks really good in pictures. We won't take pictures down here. And I guess we'll go this way. We'll see the front desk area where you can get your mail, check these out. So this is the front desk of Gregson Hall. This is going to be your hall secretary. So you'll come here to get your mail if you want to check out DVDs, games, things like that. You'll come here, check them out with either her or an RA at night. And yeah, if you have any questions during the day, this is also where you're come. You're locked out. You need to find something. You're lost on campus, things like that. And you were an RA at 1.2, is that right? Yes, I was an RA for the past two years and made the whole South. And it was a great experience. Love it. How do they recommend it? Especially if you're really like interacting with students. So get involved with like your hall leadership, the lead hall, things like that. It's a great way to get involved and to learn more about the campus. If you'll turn around over here, this is where your mailbox will be if you live here in Gregson Hall. So you'll get an email later on in the summer with your number and then your mailbox code. So you'll share this mailbox with your roommate. So it'll be the same one for you and your director of name. So if they get packages, they pick up at the front desk, right? Yes, if they're too small to go into your mailbox, you'll just come here during the front desk hour. For this hall, it's 1 to 4 p.m. And you'll come here. She'll give her your ID, your name, and she will check it out for you. And then you'll have all your stuff. Awesome. Well, I think we're going to check out the basement area. We'll go downstairs and see all the cool things down there. So much in this building. So what year are you again? I'm a senior. You're a senior. My last year. So four years here at least. What have you learned over your years at the university that you would tell a freshman to come in like, what's number one thing? Parking is no joke. Not best with parking transit. They are serious and not to be messed with. Okay. Respect the P&T. Respect parking. Don't think you can outsmart them because they will find you. There's some construction and maintenance going on in this building right now. So we'll head down over here. Right here is a trash room. So there are trash shoots on the buildings that leave down here so that you don't have to take your trash everywhere. But they're great tools and they're cleaned every Thursday and you can see what's inside. So the shoot is from the upper floors and it just comes right down here so you don't have to worry about the trash. Bring it all the way downstairs. And there's three floors, is that right here? Yes. Approximately 200 students. I think 200. Yeah, I have to be 200 students to make it even. But it's usually an upper-classing dorm, co-ed. So it's just a great environment. Great study spaces. It's two because it's upper-classing. So people are really dedicated to their studies here so you'll find lots of great groups to study with and to hang out with if you're looking for other like-minded people who are about their academics. That's what we're all here for. So this is the basement of Gretzenholm. Lots of great common spaces to hang out in. So another staircase that leads upstairs. And this is the main like hangout area for this program. So this is the lounge. There's a library. Lots of great seating. Great study spaces or a group meeting space if we have organizations that have to have meetings at night. Lots of great books and games up on the shelves. And then we come into the TV lounge area. Great TVs. Movie nights as a DVD player. You can check out movies upstairs or bring your own. You can probably even like HDMI yourself into it if you want to watch a certain show or if you like are having a presentation or have a group meeting. Great way to use the space down here. Any movie recommendations you'd make to folks? Anything you've seen lately that you especially liked? I saw Ocean's Aid Theater. Me too. My friends. It was so funny. I can't wait to get them to come down on DVD. I feel like that was like a gift for the next show. And so over here is a kitchen. So you have an ice machine, a fridge and a refrigerator, a nice ice machine, a fridge, a common fridge and refrigerator that anyone can use. A little eating space, a sink, kitchen, a real oven. Real full-size oven. So if you want to cook for yourself or you need a treat, you can always come down here, make it yourself. You can retie the dining hall food because it might happen. Sometimes you just don't want to eat at the dining halls. But they're all good. What's a dish that you prepare either as an RA or when you're a student here? There was one night, we had like a taco night. So me and a couple of friends went to the store and got all the things necessary for tacos. And to the full taco feast tonight in the kitchen. It was a great experience. We had lots of fun memories. We played like salsa music and had like chips and salsa. We're going to make it the full experience. Donna says, thanks for doing this. These Facebook Live tours are so helpful. You're welcome. We're glad we got to do this for you guys. Feel free to tell us where you guys are from. Yes, especially my Texas people because you know Texas is the best in all 50 states. But we do love Arkansas. A little biased. But yeah, so lots of space to store stuff. It's a great space to like hang out with your friends and just be together. Yeah. So we'll come out here, back out to the common space and next door to the kitchen. So this building also has really great recycling. And so you can like separate all the stuff. We do recycle mania every year. The halls compete against each other to see like which one recycles more than the other. I think Gregson always does really well for the halls. And so I think there's spaces either not every floor, but at least there's always going to be recycling down here in the basement. And then next door to the kitchen is going to be your laundry room. It's a nice big laundry room. So you're going to have five washers and six dryers. So each of these comes with a scan that you can scan to see like when they're open, when they're free, there's an app you can download. I think it's called laundry alert. And so you can just come down here, see which one you have your stuff in. And then you can go to the app. It's like set the alert for it. So that when it's done, you can go all the way up to your room and come right back down when it's done. You have to stay down here. And when it comes to that, you can go to housing.uark.edu forward slash laundry and find out more about that service. And if there's ever a problem, there's also a number on the washer to report that. But you can tell an RA or the front desk and we can get it figured out for you guys. Yeah, so you don't have to pay for it. It's completely free, which is a great thing. You don't have to pay to use the washer. All you have to do is buy your own soap or like it's actually it's within your student fees. So when you pay for housing, it's covered and it's technically free, but you don't have to have quarters or anything like that. You don't have to pay every single time you do it. You pay the front for it. Yeah. And then there's a sink over here. If you need to get it stayed out for something, a folding table so you can fold your laundry down here because you know, if it goes upstairs, not fold it and might not ever get folded again. That is true. And then we'll come back outside. So also down here when you come in the basement, there's some vending machines for snacks. You can use cash or card or even Apple pay and Android pay so you can just tap and get a snack or drink. There's a pool table down here. You can check out the halls that go to this pool table upstairs at the front desk, a bathroom and then more common spaces. Just this place is full of places to meet with your friends and to study to meet together. What's your game? Is it pool or ping pong or baseball? I am more of a pool person. They tried to teach me how to play ping pong freshman year. I still not have been able to do it. I'm just not fast enough for it. I can't get to the ball, but they keep trying maybe one day. So over here we see some of the study spaces that are available in this building. So we have a whole room that's a white board and some chairs in it. So if you need to strategize a kind of study or something or just like kind of teach the one something, you have a place to do that. You got the ping pong table. I still don't know how to use. Okay and then behind you we have another study space. These classrooms like this are usually set up for SI instructional time, which is your supplemental instruction that goes along with some of your classes. So in those big classes where there's 400 plus students you don't necessarily have the time to talk to your teacher about all your questions. So you'll have an SI that goes along with that class where you can talk to a student who really knows that subject and can help you learn that week's materials. So this might be one of the places that you do it. So if you live here it would be real convenient to come downstairs and go to SI. And there's class plus is located in Gregson. So you might as well tell us a little about what class plus is. So class plus is basically your go to to help you get through school. It has tutoring, there's a writing center, there is just like help. If you need help in anything, class plus is where you're going to go to figure out that class. So there's in the Haines Learning Center located in Gregson. You kind of have to go outside and go around to get to it, but it's real convenient if you need to run and learn something or turn in the paper real fast to get repeating before you have to turn it in that day. So it's a really great source. I really highly recommend that you use it. I know I've sent in so many papers to get reviewed because that's one of my struggles is writing papers and reports. So turn that in, someone will talk through it with you. It's a great tool to use. Like you have to use it, please use it. You're already paying for it and your student fees as well use it. Yeah, so come back up this way. This is so great. Yeah, that's a really good spot to hang out. We'll have programs down here, the great thing to like hang out and just get to know each other, especially those first couple of weeks where you don't really know anyone. So we can, that was the study room we just looked at, so we'll probably go ahead and there's a nice whiteboard in there. Maybe we'll just go upstairs. Yeah, we'll just head upstairs now and see maybe a room, a bathroom. And there's no elevators, so be aware of that. But only three floors, so that's within the healthy. Yes, you'll get your steps and an access here. There's another door into the building. And we'll walk down this way. Some more spaces to study. Everyone's rooms. Yeah, those little corner areas are nice. Sometimes people just use those areas as well. So this is the bathroom. So this hall comes with a common bathroom. So you'll share with the people on the floor. Let's just, hello. We don't want to intrude. So this is going to be the bathroom. Over here we're going to have the sinks. And there's a lot of them. This is lots of great space. You'll find everyone out of the sink to use. So you have six sinks, a long bar with plugs. You can use it to do your hair, do your makeup, and they're cleaned every day for you. So you don't have to worry about that. You don't have to stock it. You just use it. Treat it respectfully because everyone has to use it, but it's a great thing. Any tips and tricks when it comes to using the bathroom, when it's more of a community style? Kind of to go at all times sometimes. Especially if it's a busy weekend. Don't try to go at the regular times. You gotta switch it up a little early or a little late. So this used to be a male dorm. It's so tough to go out. So because this is a girl's restroom. So flowers in it to kind of make it seem more cute. And so these are going to be the toilets. There's four of them. Over here is going to be the shower area. So this is great because it comes with nice hooks. So like sit your stuff up. If you have a lot of things, you're changing clothes. And then you come all the way in. There's going to be three shower stalls. And so each stall has a little changing area inside it. So you can close it, change like you're ready. And then inside there's going to be the actual shower. And it's actually a really good side shower. Really wide, really nice. There's a really little seat. Sometimes you just kind of want to sit in the shower. But yeah. So you're never going to run out of hot water, which is always a good thing, especially for girls. Because I know I like a nice long hot shower. So never had to worry that someone was going to take all the hot water. Yeah. So three of these are going to be two of these bathrooms on each floor. So you shouldn't have a problem finding a shower, finding a bathroom. Once full, you can always go down the hall to the next one. And it'll be just as convenient. Yeah. So these are really nice bathrooms. And again, you don't have to clean them. Which is always a plus for me. Yeah. Does anyone have any questions? Feel free to let us know. We'll be happy to answer any questions. So if you're going to live in Grexin Hall 142, this will be your room. This is actually a really great size room. Lots of space. You won't feel like you're crowded. You're roommate. You have your light switches. A great closet with lots of nice things. It's so tight on that closet. So girls, you have all the space for all your clothes to never run out. Oh, you shouldn't run out. It doesn't mean you won't. Because I know I always feel like I end up with the year with more stuff than I came with. So I'm wondering, a lot of times we recommend housing that students bring the seasonably appropriateness. Always bring that curtain. Did you follow that? Yeah, I did. I still do that. And so I usually come with the summer and then the start of my fall. And so then when you go home for like fall break or Thanksgiving, you can take your summer stuff home and bring back the rest of your fall outfits. And then I do the same thing in the spring. So when it comes time for spring break, I will, well, I come back on Christmas. I bring the winter, part of my winter stuff, or the end of my winter stuff. Yeah. And then during spring break, I take that stuff home and then try to decrease the amount of stuff you have in your room during spring break. That's your opportunity to take all the things home that you do not use. So you don't have to move it all out into the year, but then bring back summer or spring outfits. And now it's a great way to use that your space. You won't feel crowded. And you will have a bunch of clothes that you're not going to wear. There's also a cool little spot above the closet for extra storage. Maybe use that. So you need to store like boxes or shoes that can go there. A nice towel hook so that you can dry your towel. Dawn says hello. Hi. I can see you guys. Oh, I guess I can't see you. But nice to hear from you. We had a question from Dawn. As you said, what about microwaves and mini fridges? Do you rent from the school or bring your out? So you can't rent from the school, but you can also bring your own. There are several requirements for that, which you can find on housing.urk.edu for like the wattage and things like that. Move in is probably a better site for that. Move in.urk.edu. And then microwaves that you can bring this stuff. But like we showed you guys downstairs, there's a fridge and a microwave downstairs in the kitchen. So it's not necessarily like, you don't really need it, but you can bring it. It's just going to take up space in your room. We have a corporate partner that we work with, and one of the nice things about using that service is that it's here when you arrive, and then you don't have to take it back home. Yeah, you don't have to take it back home. You just turn it in at the end of the year and it's over. If you do choose to bring those, you could always loft your bed, which we have those options for you guys, and then you can take advantage of the storage in your bed. So you'd like to put something into there? This bed can go up twice as high and you can loft it all the way up. You can go to movement.urk.edu to be like forwarded to the site where you can have it lofted for you. But yeah, I had my bed lofted freshman year, and I really liked having extra space underneath. And I think halfway through, I de-lofted this. I got lazy. I hated climbing a bed, and it's a bed. But it was nice to have that space. Did you put anything underneath, like a futon? Yeah, I had my desk underneath and my fridge, my microwave, because I brought one. But I also had extras at home, so we didn't have to buy it. But we lofted that. It's nice. We had a lot of floor space to have people in our room, especially at the beginning of the year. We're trying to make friends and get to know people. So you can hang out in the room. These desks come with like shelving and drawers. So you don't have to necessarily bring things with all your school supplies in. Did you do the chair trip? Yes. I learned it took me so long to learn that, but you can use the latch. You can latch it and turn it into a little rocking stool. So rocks and a little stool to sit on. So if you have more people in your room, you can turn two chairs into four. So that's really nice. We'll point out the cable too, if people don't know what that's about. So these rooms come with cable. We're real fancy like that. You get HBO and everything. All the HBO's. So it comes in your room, building HDMI cord and all the cording necessary for it. So you don't have to bring that with you. You can just plug in your TV and have all the cable necessary. I think you can even get DVR, but you have to pay extra for that. It's an option. You can go to housing.ur.edu forward slash cable and find out more information about our cable service. So great source. I miss it. I no longer live on campus. I'm a senior, so I moved off campus for jobs, but I miss having cable paid for. That's for sure. So use it while you have it. I remember we would always like be up in our rooms, like at night, watching The Bachelor, Scandal, all those things. It was a great way to like have fun with your friends. There's watch parties. Yes, watch parties were a big thing. Just find someone's room and just all pile in and watch it or go downstairs, those meeting areas. It's a great way to spend the night. What we're going to measure the mattress is something we like to do, but we're also here to measure anything you want in this room. Yes. Now is the time to ask us, and we're happy to do it for you. So the mattress is going to be 36 inches long. Can you hold it? I'll hold this for you. Okay, 36 by 80. We're going to measure the second one just to get our test on both. This is, I believe, not one of the halls where it's different on the window side versus the door side. Yes, so this is also going to be about 80 inches. Okay, great. And then did we get the depth we've been asked about that? Right, and there's like a front side and a soft side if you didn't know that, so you'll have to see which side you like sleeping on. That took me a whole year to figure out, and I was real upset when I figured it out, but it's been a whole year sitting on the front side and I went on the soft side. The desk, 42 inches long, 24 and a half deep, so it's a nice little space to like do all your school work, get it spread out, get all your work done because you gotta do the work, stay here. And these are all movable pieces, aside from the closet. So you can always move around and rearrange the room however you like, move to the bed, move to the desk. As we say, you can lock your bed so you can put your desk in between the fitter, you can bring it to the coton if you like, if not necessary, you can. It's honestly like a really good size room. Yeah, very spacious. You'll be really lucky if you live in here. Why don't we give them the distance between the beds too, because that's a very common measurement that people want, if they want to build a, build a organic carpet. It's going to be under the 13 inches between each bed. And then can we do from here to the desk? These are movable pieces, so you can have flexibility. Right, about 109 inches. You can move them around however you like. It's up to you to get your room how you like it. I know those first couple of days, I moved my room around a lot, because you always want to find your zen place where you feel that the room is complete. So go ahead and do that. Well, we thank you for your questions that have come in, and we'll hang up for another second or two if anybody has anything. Oh, air conditioning. So this is a building that switches over air. So in the hotter months, it's going to have the air conditioning cooling, and in the colder months, it's going to have it on warm. So you can't switch back and forth. You'll get an email ahead of time when you're switching it. So you'll know, but you also can't change it back. You can just go up and down a temperature, but if it's hot, it's going to be a little hot. If it's cold, it's going to be a little cold. So when you live in a hall like that, and it's November, and we've turned it to heat, and it's, I don't know, 60, 70 degrees on a weird November day, what steps would you recommend to students so that they can, you know, remain as comfortable as possible? Open your windows, open your doors. If you're cold, got them next to a blanket. If you're hot, I guess, if you have any more sun clothes, you could walk around on that. But it's really, it's not that bad. Also, don't mess with the buttons, because that could mess up the functionality of it, and then you'll really be upset. It's really not working the way it should be. But yeah, opening windows usually really helps cool the room down. Portable fans. Portable fans. No heaters. Right. Can't bring a heater, and can't bring a heated blanket. Safety hazards. It can't bring that, but just regular blankets. It works, I promise, because I hate being cold to bring an extra blanket. Any other questions? We don't have any right now, but remember you guys can always, you know, do this after we post it and leave comments, and we will still go back and answer those for you guys. And if you're living in another hall, we'll be doing some other tours throughout the next couple of weeks. We're gonna do Walton Hall today at 2 p.m. So if you're in a little Walton, you can join us then, if you just want to see the other buildings. Yeah. So if you just kind of sign this off, there's anything you want to, you know, tell the upcoming freshmen? You all are really lucky. The campus is great. You're gonna love it. I mean, I love all of my time here. And I can't believe that I'm going into my last year. So enjoy the time, welcoming the University of Arkansas, and WuPikSui. Yep. Thank you guys for tuning in.