 Good afternoon. Thanks for tuning in. Welcome to our UR Come live tour of Holcomb Hall. My name is Channing and I will be showing you guys around today. I am from Springdale, Arkansas and I am a senior communication major. So if you have any questions today, please comment those throughout the video or even after the video and we will be sure to answer those for you guys. And then behind the camera we have Christopher today. Yeah, Christopher Spencer. I'm the assistant director for marketing and strategic communications here at Housing. You might have heard my voice in earlier videos, but I'm Channing and I are going to show you this beautiful building and I'm going to give you just a little bit of a pan of the building itself which it really has a wonderful classic style to it. Let's see if I can back up a little here. That's the building. Channing, you might tell us what's in the neighborhood. Marla chimed in and said that her son will be living in 244. And Marla, we are checking out floor two and if we can, we'll check out 244 specifically for your son. And let us know where you're from. We're very curious to know who's coming. Thanks Channing for that tour of the neighborhood. It's a great day. And you might, yeah. You're welcome Marla. Welcome to Fable. It says, I actually like that sign. Hey, how's it going? How are you? Very good. Can you might tell us what a CRE is? Yeah, CRE is someone who's there for the residents of the hall. So I'm the CRE for both Holcomb and Futral. I also supervise the resident assistants that are both in Holcomb and Futral as well as the graduate assistant. So if you are a resident for Holcomb and Futral, please feel free to pop your head in my office as you can see where it's located at any time during the school year. And I'll be there to help you the best I can. Excellent. You mind coming with us while I take the tour? Absolutely. Let's go. We'd love that. All right, let's go. You got a lot of stuff on your door there, Mitchell. Yeah. So all of my door decks, so all of the RAs usually make door decks for the residents. I'm at the start of the school year and some of them make some more for each other and also for myself. And some of this came from my previous institution as well. Very nice. Very nice. Collecting it over the years. Sure. So we are moving into and walking into the student study lounge in the first floor. And so we have two different rooms basically that we have for students who want to study quietly or they want to have like a more of a private study. This one we have three tables and a couple chairs as well as this other one. Hey Nick. Nick says this will be his third year in Holcomb. Hi Nick. Nick Lang. He says you can usually find him in the basement or at the, at events. Yeah. It'll be a lead hog. Yeah, definitely. I was actually just going to mention that. If you're going to be joining the Holcomb and Futural Lead Hogs, this is usually the table where we hold our meetings. This is the lead hog. The lead hog space. Yes. For us for meeting throughout the year. Perfect. Great. Great. All right. Do you mind noting 244 as a room? Let's go. These are the professional staff apartments. So the Graduate Assistant for Holcomb and Futural and my own apartment also is down there. Those are both private residents. So not a lot of residents go through this way just because they are private areas as well. Sure. Okay. I think we're going to go out here to the to the to the parlor area. Yep. It's super convenient and also so we have almost 5,000 water bottles saved which is awesome. Do you keep a water bottle around campus? Of course. Oh nice. Do you go, do you metal, plastic, wood? What do you do? I prefer metal because I feel like it's rich. So that's super convenient. Perfect. It's awesome if you don't want to bring a microwave or mini fridge to your room. You can use this as you clean. I hear cookies happen sometimes. Brownies happen sometimes. Of course. Frozen pizza, I would imagine. It's an elegant piano. It's very teaching that out. This is the living room. Oh the living room. Okay. Perfect. It feels like a home. Yeah. It feels so cozy in here. And this is where they do the Global Series. Yes, you're right. Yeah. So do you want to talk about a little bit about that? Yeah. So Global Series is basically a series of program that is unique to Holcomb Hall. So in a semester we have about six to seven presenters. So the presenters are usually international students or domestic students who have had international experience through study abroad or exchange programs and they talk about those countries in their presentation. So during Global Series we change the setup of this room. So this becomes kind of a classroom setup. So we have chairs around and then we have a projector and a podium up top and we have activities as well during Global Series and we use that little room for a taste test because Global Series also ends with like a ethnic food taste test for the country of origin. I was going to point out that's one of the cool things that you come and you get to taste some of the food from the country itself. So a little bit of a secret there in a sense. That's awesome. Yeah. What do you think? What were some from last year? Do you have any remember? We had the first one that started off last year was India and Pakistan. We had Ukraine and Russia, France, Japan. We had Malaysia. We had the last one that we had for the year. Why am I blanking out? I'm putting you on the spot. But I'm just thinking of those international cuisines and culture. Yeah. So just definitely just a conversation around different spots in the country that are very interesting to go to if you are planning to visit that country especially also the delicacies and the cuisine that that country has. That's why we have our taste test so that we can have like that immersive experience for students. You got an assist from Nick. He says he thinks Laos. Yes. What's the last one? Hey, thanks Nick. Appreciate that. Who also calls out some baking and Holcomb is very common. All right. So on to the front desk. They do get their letter mail here, correct? No, they don't. So just like futural these mailboxes are defunct. So they're basically for display. So we all have a zone desk at the Northwest Quad. So Morgan Hall has the desk for mail and packages for the residents of both Holcomb and Futural as well as the key. So if you ever leave your key in your room and you need to have someone key you in, usually you call the RA on duty and if you need a key for an entire week is maybe you lost your key and you needed to have your locks changed, then you actually go to Morgan Hall which is right across the street to rent out a loaner key for the period of time that you need that. Good information. Yeah. All right. Awesome. And then if we head this way, we have actually the International Office of Students and Scholars. Here we are. Yes. It's located in the residence hall which is super awesome and convenient for international students. Holcomb Hall's population is about 40 to 50 percent international students. So it's awesome that they can just go downstairs and the officers are right here. So let's pop in and see if they'll say hello to us. I think they will. Hey, how are you? I'm finally here for international students, but we also do a lot of outreach with the community. We have an ICT international culture team and iFRIEND. They're both great programs. You can get to know international students and make a new friend from across the world. Fantastic. And your name is? Kayla. Great to meet you Kayla. And so they can just come in. Is it eight to five? Yep. General hours. Okay. Thank you so much. I appreciate it. All right. So now we're going to head downstairs to the basement where there's a lot of awesome common area spaces. And Mitchell, how does trash work in this building? I know that's a question we get oftentimes. So each floor has a trash shoe. So residents need to only bag their trash before throwing it down the trash shoe. I think laundry is in this direction, is that right? Yes, laundry is here. And then we also have recycling bins in every floor that is available for recycling. Okay, great. So recycling and trash both. And then if you have cardboards that you'd like to discard, we actually have a space here for cardboards. It normally wouldn't look like that. We're summer mode. But we have a space given here and allotted for residents to dismantle their cardboards and deposit their cardboards that way. Okay. Thank you for that. Four washers, four dryers. We have some vending machines over here as well. The awesome thing about this campus is we have an app called Laundry Alert which basically download the app when number of machines you're using and you can get notification. There we are. More information. There's also you can go to housing.ur.edu forward slash laundry and find out more about it too. I think wireless, it looks like it has that wireless. I know I've tested Apple Pay with it and that's worked okay. Do you watch TV or do you use a laptop more? Oh, I think I use my laptop more. Really? I never realized that just now. Interesting. Interesting. All right. A lot of Netflix. For sure. Okay. Mitch, are you binging anything at the moment? Are you watching anything? Yeah, so Big Little Lies just finished this Sunday. That was such a satisfying, serious finale. Was it? Really, really good. A good season finale is not common. So that's good. Okay. So we're going to do a good 360 here of it. Yeah. This TV as well is a smart TV. So if you have a Netflix account or a Hulu account or even HBO Go or stars on the go, you could just log into that TV, put in your credentials, have your friends who live in the residence hall watch a show with you and then you're good to go. Awesome. That is awesome. There's also a pool table over here and some really cute window seats. I love all the details in this building. Yeah, the window seats. I don't know if I ever noticed that. Super cozy. Yeah. I mean, this is where that full kitchen I was mentioning earlier is. So you have the full fridge, big sink and an oven and a stove and microwave. So you have everything you can eat in here. If you need to rent pots or pans, you would do that at the front desk. You can just leave your student ID in the front desk, rent whatever utensil that you want. And then when you're finished, after you've cleaned it, hopefully, you can return it to the front desk and you can get your student ID back. So that's awesome. If you want to get a cookie sheet or some cookies or some pots, my favorite go-to spaghetti. Yeah, really? It's really easy and I never get tired of it. Sure, sure. Do you buy the sauce already pre-made or do you make the sauce? Yeah, I know. That's totally understandable. Most of our residents do have their own pots and pans. They're utensils and so they tend to just go to the kitchen and just like do their thing. But to some of the residents who may not have those pots and pans and they can sheets available, we do have those at the whole front desk to be checked out at whatever time. Sure. And Nick points out baking. That's the way to make friends. Get down there and make some cookies. Yeah, be sure. Go ahead. Go to second floor and then let's go ahead and hit 244 first. We can look at that room for her. You said you're majoring in communications, is that right? Yeah. Yeah, so you're a senior coming up. I know. Any thoughts on what's next? So we're just meeting a merchant but communication is so broad and you can go so many different ways with it that I'm still trying to figure it out but I still have a year. Absolutely. Yeah, so 244 is one of our singles. Now this is a single room so this is, typically it's not a single. This is just, it happens to be a single that we've got here. We do have a couple of singles on every floor. Let me give a good 360 on this. Here you are Marla for your son. Yeah. Let's see, you might open in the closet floor. Yeah, I'm looking near. There's also some shelving in there. Yeah, I'm going to take a look at that. Plenty of room for that. And then there's also a storage of there that I can reach. That's fine. That's fine. Plenty of storage. Awesome. Great. Okay. So that's a single room. That's what it looks like. We're going to go to, I think we had some rooms identified over there. Yeah, check out the bathroom. That's a good idea. We'll pick Suey. You'll hear that a lot when you arrive. This would be awesome to meet up for like a group project. Sometimes the library gets full so finding other rooms can be a task so it's nice that this is available. Hey Hannah, thanks for asking us about 332. Unfortunately, we're only on floor two today. But you'll be here in August and we can't wait for you to see it. 332. If there's interest from our viewers this afternoon, we could also show folks what the double room looks like if anyone's interested. Sure, sure. That's the standard, right? I think that's what we're going to hopefully, I think down here at the end of that. And this is a traditional bathroom style, right? Yes. Community bathroom style. A little changing space in between which is always nice. Here's the shower. You have a little space in there. Yeah, I like those shelves. It's nice. As well as a seating area right there which you can use. There's space in here which I know I would really appreciate. And it also has the outlets for all of your tools. Mm-hmm. Grade, mirror, action, sinks, and stalls. Indeed. Very nice. Okay. Perfect. Yeah. And now we can check out a more standard double room. Mm-hmm. So this is a room 209. 209. Here we are. What if you'd like to? So this will be a more typical room setup. Mm-hmm. You have two beds, two desks with, they both come with a desk chair. You go ahead and pan around. Okay. From the view. You have two sets of drawers and a little night table. That also locks. So if you have any valuables, you can store them in these drawers and you have to bring your own lock and then you can just turn this and keep them nice and safe. Mm-hmm. So that's important. You bring your own lock for that. Yeah. Any questions about measurements? Yeah, this is the perfect time to hit us up with these measurements. Do you mind if we look at that closet in there too? Yeah. It might be a little bit different than the, there's two of them in the room. Right. And you have a mirror right there. Describe the community at Holcomb. Holcomb is a really good blend of domestic and international students. Students really tend to learn from each other in Holcomb just because we make sure that international students have a domestic experience by pairing them with a domestic student. And in my experience, having worked at the CRE in Holcomb for a year, I have had stories of residents really learning from each other and residents who actually form a very good bond and relationship that they end up visiting each other in their home country. That's wonderful. That's awesome. Muhammad Eshamid says so many memories over here. Apparently we have an alumni tuning in. We love that. Thanks for joining us. Yeah. Kristen asked how thick are the mattresses? So maybe we can measure the mattresses? Yeah. We use the analog for this one. We do have a digital too. Yeah. It seems about right. Yeah. Five inches thick. Traditionally, both sides are the same. But my suggestion for those students who want an extra soft mattress is to buy a mattress topper. Those are available like in Wal-Mart and Lowe's and Home Depot. And basically, you just put it on top of your mattress. And then there's like, it usually comes with a fitted sheet. So you put it on top. You put a fitted sheet around it so that it doesn't move and then do your bedding and stuff over it. That gives you more height because the mattress topper is about like two inches. Okay. And it gives you a much more of a comfortable feel. You know, mattress toppers and shower shoes are just like musts. I think I think you're going to want those if you're moving here for the first time. Anything else you can think of that, you know, you should definitely have or do with refreshment just generally. There's nothing better than just like a warm fuzzy room. We talked about mattress toppers, shower slippers. And I think, you know, if you want to take showers at night, then definitely have your shower cap. How about with you? A shower caddy is definitely a must, especially if you're living in the middle of the floor and both of the bathrooms are on the opposite end. You don't want to be holding all of your stuff. You want to have like a little thing that holds everything together. Kristen is thanking us for the measurement on the mattress. Now is a great time to ask us any questions because we're here to measure anything you might want to know about this particular hall. And one thing I wanted to add about bathroom is that every floor has two bathrooms on the west and east side or west and east wing of And they're cleaned daily by university housing staff. So always very clean. Let's see. Any other tips and tricks you can think of for our incoming students? I think we've talked about like most of them. Yeah, I think being courteous, especially when it's your first time moving into a residence hall, being courteous of your neighbors and being courteous with your roommate at the start of the semester or the start of the year, really goes a long way. We have our RA's also facilitate roommate agreements. So make sure that you know what you want to do with your space and communicate that with your RA at the start of the semester as well as communicating that with your roommate will really go along. Do you happen to know about hot and cold in this building? Is it one, one, is it either all hot or all cold? So we do switch. So we switch from cold to hot in the fall, like late fall, and then we switch back about March, late March or April, but it is all hot, all cold. So during the cold seasons, we do have heating and during the hot seasons, we have AC cooling. So on an unseasonable day, you might be a little bit uncomfortable depending. You could open the window. Most definitely. Fans are good. Fans are good as well, but we've really not had a lot of problems with Holcombe when it comes to temperature. Absolutely. Well, we've got no more questions. I maybe can help say goodbye. Yeah, well, moving is going to be very soon. I'm very excited to meet everyone who's going to be living in Holcombe. We have a lot of programs lined up for Oliver residents. So please be excited for that as well. And Holcombe in the future, as I said in the previous live tour for a future function, is one community. So if you are watching in your future resident, feel free to come to Holcombe for all of our programs and all of our events. And you can also very much use all of our study spaces for your academic needs. Very nice. Very nice. Yeah. Thank you guys so much for tuning in. If you want to see where we will be next, you can check out the full schedule of tours at movein.ur.edu. And you can come check out some more residence halls with us. So thank you guys so much for watching. Have a great day.