 My name's Emily Leal, and I'm a marketing intern this year with University Housing. And welcome to your home live. Today we're at Futural Hall. And first I just want to say a given introduction to my cameraman, Britt. Say hi. Hello. My name is Britt. I'm the student designer at Housing. I just graduated the BFA in Graphic Design. And a few points of interest is the bookstore is right over here. And the housing office is just to the right over there. So I guess we'll go ahead and head on in. Let's do it. You got a lot of people joining. Let us know where you're from. Very curious who's coming this fall. A lot of waves. Emily, you lived on campus a few years. Where have you lived? My freshman year I lived in a hall that is no longer used anymore. It was called Buchanan. And my sophomore year I lived in Gregson at Central Campus. So you're going to have to fob in to all the residence halls and you'll be given a fob at your orientation or sometime before you move in. When you move in, you give me your key. Oh, and this is Natalia. Hey everybody. So my name's Natalia. I am the Siri or coordinator for residence education for both Futural and Holcomb Halls. I don't know if this has already been mentioned, but Holcomb Futural is kind of paired together and so you're going to be interacting with the other building a lot as well. We do some events over there too. So tune in for the Holcomb UR Clive as well. It's going to be next Tuesday at four. But I'm here to help out, take you around the building, show you some fun things. Do you have any of the size of this particular hall? How many residents live here, do you know? There's about 200 residents that fit in Futural. The building is all female. You can have male visitors come over or something to know and I'll point it out when I go downstairs. But there's only one gender-neutral bathroom in the building since we are community-side. If you have any male visitors come over, they will have to use that one and not the ones on the floors. Good to know. Yeah. All right. Let's go for a tour. That sounds great. Cool. So we will actually get started with our front desk. If you look over here to the right, you can see some beautiful mailboxes. Well, they don't work. You don't get your mail from Futural. You're actually going to go across the street over at Morgan Hall in Northwest Quad and pick up your letter mail, your packages, stuff there. So make sure you are not having things sent to the building address because it's not going to come here. It's going to get sent back. So just keep that in mind. Another thing, too, is we actually have conferences staying in Futural this summer right now. So this right here isn't usually there. If you ever lock yourself out or anything like that, you're going to get your keys across the street at the same place you get your mail at the Northwest Quad front desk. But this is super helpful. We have an RA, typically staff the front desk. So if you have any questions, you can always come here after typical business hours, their shifts start at 4 p.m. And ask questions. You can check out stuff like pool cues, ping pong paddles, board games, cooking stuff, things like that from here. So it's definitely a good spot to know where the front desk is. But we'll head over this way. In Futural, we have quite a few, I'll channel my inner orientation leader. We have quite a few common areas in Futural, which is really nice. One of the most popular ones is right here to my right. This is, thank you Chris for entering. This is one of the study rooms that we have. And so in here, we have a couple of different table areas as well as a white board that gets used very frequently, especially by like last year our physics students came in here a lot to study before exams. We also have a piano that you are welcome to use. In fact, please use it. It is so much fun whenever we hear people utilizing the piano. Do either of you play piano? God, no. Who sticks in your mouth? You're very good. I dabble in it. You dabble in piano? Do you want to familiar right now? Oh no. You shouldn't have said you didn't. Good acoustics though. It's nice though. I mean, honestly, a lot of people use the piano like it's definitely a part of the culture here. We get a lot of people from band who stay in Futural as well, which is really nice. So this is definitely a good spot. Right out here, we have another common area that also gets used pretty frequently. Whether it is somebody just hanging out with friends and studying at those tables right there or even over this way a little bit more, we have a pretty large TV. You can watch whatever on it. You don't need to reserve it or anything. It's kind of first come, first serve. There are modes over there. You can also hook up your laptop within an HDMI cable that way in case you want to, I don't know, like go on Amazon video and watch something, you can do that. Just a little small thing. We have a couple of trophy cases. One is right here and one is over back the way that we came. If you ever have time, feel free to check them out. I'm not going to let you. They're all pretty old, but they just showcase some of the clubs that are like organizations that have been in Futural as well as maybe events that we've gotten awards for and things like that. So it's just a little bit of our history. We're here in Hull back in the day with everything. We've had ourselves on being a good community. So now what we're going to do is we will go downstairs, which is another one of our community areas or common areas that gets used a ton. So you'll want to make sure you know what this is. One big thing, we have recycling right here. There's another area downstairs. This separates it all out. There also going to be like giant green recycling containers on each of the floors as well that we don't have to travel too far. We really try and be a sustainable community. So do your best. Do your best to recycle. And I hate to admit, but I cannot walk backwards downstairs. No, please. I was just thinking. It's dangerous. It's very impressive. I have my limitations. So I think just a little bit about your background. How you ended up at the university? Absolutely. Sorry. I should have started with that. So something about me, I am actually originally from Oregon, I did my undergraduate at Colorado State, and then I came here for graduate school. I actually just finished graduate school. So I've been in the Hopeham Futural community for the last two years, but as a grad student, this is actually my first year as a full-time Siri, and I'm stoked about it because I love the community. Last year, Hopeham was actually closed, and this year it's going to be open again. So things are going to be back to kind of how they used to be, which is going to be really good for us. Yeah. That's kind of how I got here. It's nice because I never really expected to move to Arkansas at any point in my life, but from now I loved it. So it's been really good. But this right here is one of our biggest common areas in the building. We have pool. We have ping-pong. I mean, a lot of our events are going to be in this area. Just for y'all's reference, there are a few different types of events that you'll hear your RA's talking about. There are all-hall events, which include everybody in the community. So that is all the Futural residents, all of the Hopeham residents. And it's really common for us to have our all-halls in this basement area. There are also floor programs, which is something that your RA will put on just with the people on your floor. And those happen all over. It gets kind of up to your RA to figure out what's going to go on with that. We are also going to be having some events in Hopeham too, though. That way, if you live in Futural, you can become more familiar with Hopeham and get to know what that building is like too. We want you to be comfortable going between the two buildings and attending events that happen in either one. Over here, something that is pretty nice to have in our community is the fact that we have a movie room. So in here, it's pretty dark right now for the ambience, you know? But these chairs are, one, super comfy. They also recline, which is really nice. And just like the TV upstairs, I mean, you don't reserve it. It's kind of first come, first serve, however. What we tell people is that if you have something scheduled that you want to do, feel free to put a sign on the door. Say that you want to use the room during that time. And people always respect that. But same thing. You can, we have TV on here. You can hook up your laptop, whatever you want to do. Talia and Emily, what are y'all watching these days? Any particular shows that are catching your interest? Let's step out in the light so they can see what's going on. I know I've been watching Loki, the new Marvel series on... Disney Plus, I think. Disney Plus, Disney Plus. And they'll pay us for that, I'm sure. Yes. Sponsor us. We're getting sponsored. Disney's gonna pay me. But I really like it. I recommend it. What I watch changes a lot. During the summer is usually when I'll start watching a new show because I have no sense of self-control. So if I find a show that I like, I just binge it all and let go. Yeah, it's bad. During the year is when I re-watch shows, like New Girl, things like that, like light-hearted, happy things, or movies, so I'm definitely more of a movie kind of person. We just discovered The Expanse. We're showing it on the watch side. This is a side-flash series. Brett, you got anything? The latest thing is Peaky Blinders. So the show is about a British mob back in the 1920s. It's pretty interesting. That's awesome. Nice. Oh yeah. Lots of good recs. Yeah, definitely whatever shows you like to watch, feel free to utilize these common areas to watch them, either by yourself if you want, or with other residents on your floors. I mean, they're definitely good spots to make some friends, which is nice. Over here, so sorry, Brett, I'm right behind you, so we have more recycling down here. Like I mentioned, we are super committed to sustainability efforts in our building. Over this way, we have some vending machines. They're emptied out right now for the summer, because there's not really anybody in the buildings. They will be re-stocked when we get here, I promise. But this is something that you can use, either cash or Google Pay. Apple Pay, Google Pay. Electronic payments. Yeah, whatever. Whatever you got. That's what you can use. Over here too, we have a full kitchen that y'all are welcome to use whenever. So it has a stove, a fridge, freezer, all of that good stuff. It gets used pretty frequently. And like I said before, there are cooking utensils that you can check out upstairs, like pots and pans, mixing bowls, baking sheets, that kind of stuff. I do recommend though, if you love to cook, if you love to bake, maybe consider bringing some of your own stuff, because with those, kind of like everything else that's first come first served. So if somebody's already using it, it's not going to be available to you. Or if you have just like specific things that you need, or we got the basics, but any more specific than that, you'll definitely want to bring your own. Yeah, so we will walk over this way. So where we entered in from the front is the first floor. This here is the basement, however there are actually two entrances into the basement. One is just right over here, to my left, your right. That is one of the entrances from the resident reserved parking lot, and then another one of the entrances is right over this way. And you said you're from Oregon, right? Yes. And yet I heard you use y'all a moment ago. Yeah. Are you an adopter of the you all contraction? I will admit Arkansas is rubbed off on me a little bit. Y'all actually came about when I lived in Colorado, they say it a lot too, and part of it is trying to be more intentional about the language that I'm using, because I won't say you guys, not everybody's a guy, and you know, so that's part of it. Let's show the laundry, we're going to catch it on the way down, that's fine, we'll catch it now. Of course. So right here we have laundry available, and it's nice because there's actually an app that connects to your phone, so it will let you know when your laundry is done. Something to know as well is that if you forget your laundry, and it disappears, go and talk to your RA, because what we, we have an agreement with our ISA, our custodial staff, where, you know, it might be a little bit loud for y'all to hear, so let's walk over this where if a resident leaves their laundry in one of the machines, they will pick it up, bag it, say what day and time they picked it up, it actually comes to me. That way, if you lose it, it'll be safe with us, if you don't come and grab it after a week or two, then we actually don't even, so pay attention. If you're close to missing more than likely, someone on our staff has ever knows where it is. Emily, did you do your laundry here on campus, or did you take it home with you? What did you do? Well, my home is in San Antonio, Texas, so I did not take it home, I did it at laundry every single week, every Sunday was my routine, and I just did a couple of loads, and it was, it was, it was nice just having it right a couple floors below me, so the laundry services here are great, especially with the app. Right, because it doesn't, you don't actually pay anything, it's part of the housing fees. And then, did you use pods or did you use powder? I use pods because I find them easier, and they don't make a mess, and they may be a little bit more expensive, but I find that it's definitely worth it. Nice outdoor space out here, which is fantastic, we have residents use it really frequently. Right now, our, our maintenance and FEMA are actually doing a lot of the yard works, which is why you see piles of leaves and things like that, but it's really convenient because if you follow this path right here, there's a gate over in that brick wall, and that's another way that you can get in from the resident-reserved parking lot that I was telling you about. It's really common for residents to come in through these doors because Fulbright Dining Hall is right across the street, that's also where you get your mail, where you, you know, get your keys if you need a loan or a key, all of that good stuff, so this is one of the easiest ways that we don't have to walk all the way around to the front of the building. What we'll go back inside and show you what a room looks like. Four floors, but five if we're counting the basement. There are resident rooms on all five floors. We're going to show you one of the rooms on the first floor, which just in case we forgot, the first floor is where the front desk is and so that's just to kind of give you a little bit of a reference. On every floor, this room right here is going to be one of your RA rooms. So that way, they're really easy for you to access. I mean, when you walk into the hallway, you're always going to be passing by here. It's pretty common for our RA staff to have open door hours where they'll keep their door open so you can just pop in. Right over here, this right here is the trash shoot. It is in this location on all of the floors except for the basement. The basement actually has a room right here that you can just walk in. But this makes it definitely easier if you need to throw out any trash that is in your room. You don't have to walk all the way downstairs. You don't have to walk all the way out to a dumpster. It's just right here. I can't remember if I mentioned this or not. We do not have a functioning elevator in this building. We have an elevator shaft that is very deceiving and it's sad because it feels like there should be something in there, but there isn't. The elevator is actually too small to fit a gurney in it. So we couldn't have it. But definitely remember when you are moving into the building, think like small boxes. If you have heavy things, make it a smaller box because especially if you live on the fourth floor, you're going to have to climb up all of those stairs and bring your stuff up there. So be nice to yourself. We're going to go to the bathroom first. So there are two bathrooms on each floor. They're basically identical. So we're just going to show you one. The way that the bathrooms are set up is we have the actual toilets over here, sinks are in the middle, and then we have showers over on this side. And so in each of the shower stalls, there's like a changing area and then an actual showering area for you as well. And in each of the bathrooms, there are four showers. So just something to make it a little bit easier when everybody's waking up in the morning for classes or work or something. Emily, you would have used the community showers in one of your halls. Any tips or tricks about shower usage? Shower shoes. 100% make sure you have shower shoes. You don't want to be sharing the same floor with a bunch of people who are walking barefoot. So shower shoes 100%. And then having a shower caddy. Preferably for me, one that was like a soft material and like moves on like a plastic one. I find that the soft ones work better, especially so you can just hang it up in the shower because they usually have hooks somewhere in the shower where you can just hang it up. So those are your essentials definitely. We do have a question. They're asking about the size of the beds. If both beds are twin XL, I guess we can get to that when we get to the rooms. So we will head over to the rooms right now. In the future, the way that we have it set up is that one of the rooms... Okay. I'm just going to run and get that key. Okay, perfect. So while he runs to get the key, I will answer your bed question. So we have the twin XL beds in future. We also have the regular twin size beds. So typically how it works is one of the beds will be twin, one will be twin XL. I recommend buying twin XL like sheets and what are those things? Comforters, good Lord. Comforters for your bed just that way you can be prepared just in case whatever bed you end up selecting is that one. But it's nice because the furniture in the rooms is all movable. And so when you see when we walk in, the room will be set up a specific way. But if you want to do something different with it, you are totally welcome to do so. All of the beds are loftable as well. Thank you. And so if you would like to walk your bed and say put your desk underneath it, you are definitely welcome to do that. So this is an example of one of the resident rooms. Everybody gets their own bed. You will get your own wardrobe. You have your own desk with drawers in it. The top drawer does lock which is nice that way. If you have anything valuable that you want to keep secure, you can put it in there. There is one dresser per room. So you and your roommate will be sharing the dresser. Typically how people do it is one person gets the top three. The other person gets the bottom three. Up to you how you want that to work out. Yeah, this is whatever it looks like. Do we have any questions about rooms or are we good? Nothing so far. We have one question about beds that I already got answered. It's going to measure the beds just to verify and confirm. Do you mind helping her with that? Yeah. You can provide that hand if she needs it. Are we good? Is it hitting a finger? Let's get this in action. We have a fancy measuring thing. Oh, there it is. That's a frame. This one is about 72 inches. I can measure it also just to make sure. Put them in my hands and let me know what the mattress is. About 70 inches. Okay. Are there any particular rooms in here that in this building that have a different kind of layout or configuration? The only rooms that are going to be a little bit different, see, are our single rooms because they just have one set of furniture in it. I'm sure I look weird with the window behind me so let me move this way. Are our rooms, our single rooms because they just have one set of furniture still has the full dresser and everything in it? Would that be like room 122? Would that be an example of that? It'll be our 11 rooms. Okay. Over there we do have somebody staying there right now for a conference otherwise I would keep this in there. But it's all of the same furniture. Same type. It'll look the same. Beds are the same. That's a size. But all of our rooms if you look at the window over there they have the deep window sill which is nice. All of the windows open so you can get a good breeze when the weather is appropriate. And each room has its own thermostat and so you can control the temperature that your room is which is really nice. You also have cox cable boxes. That way if you want to bring a TV you can get that connected and that's totally free for you to use. One thing to know is you can have a mini fridge and a microwave but it's just one per room. So please make sure you're talking to your roommate to figure out who is bringing what or if you're renting one through the university. Perfect. Totally up to you how you want to do that but just one of each. And to find out about renting it you can go to movein.uark.edu and go to the ready to arrive page of that website and you will find information about renting a mini fridge. And they're pretty nice size. I'm not sure if that's the exact model but I don't think it is. But they're pretty good size ones that you rent there. What was the measurement? I was measuring it wrong. It was measuring it from the top. Okay. Here I'll help you out there. And while we're doing that we have another question. Where will students be able to fill up their water jugs? Is there a water fountain nearby? Yes. So each floor has two water fountains. One on this side and then one across the hall as well. There are also water fountains down in the basement that I neglected to point out so I apologize for that. We can walk over this way. And I'll show you all. I'm sorry to take care of this. Christopher would you mind getting out? I got that. All right. That was good. So we have, like I said, a couple water fountains on each floor. So one of the water fountains is just going to be your good old fashioned water fountain. I don't think I really needed to show you how to use it, but that's okay. We did it. And then on the other side there's one that has one of the water bottle filling stations that you just have to hold your water bottle up to. So they're both available. And like I said, that's on each floor as well as down in the basement as well. Emily, did you get that measurement? Yes. The bed closest to the door was about 73 inches. And then the bed closest to the window was 80 inches. Okay. So probably about 75 and 80 inches. Yeah. Yeah. And the, like I said before, the way that we have it is one of the beds is an Excel and one is a normal twin. So just. And if I were buying sheets or fitted sheets, especially, I would just look at the dimensions that you're buying for rather than follow Excel or twin Excel. I would just look at those dimensions and make sure you're within those parameters. Yeah. All right. Well, any more questions about the room itself? Yes. We have another question. How much space is between the bottom of the bed and the floor when it's not lofted? So like what's its original? Let's see how these loft, because every hall is a little bit different. Yeah. So right now all of the beds in the building will be the same height, which is nice. So whatever this measurement is that you're going to get, you can count on that being the measurement for your room. 18, about 18 inches. Is this one that has a lofting kit where like you get a second set and then loft it? Yes. So basically with lofting in this, in future, up to here, you can loft yourself. Super easy. You literally just lift up and it unhooks from this post and you can adjust it however you want. If you want it to go higher, because like I mentioned, it's an option to loft the bed so that you can put your desk underneath. If you want to go higher, you'll put in a maintenance request for that. That's super easy. It's just our fixiturk. Housing.urk.edu forward slash fixit. Yes. F-I-X-I-T. I have it bookmarked on my computer. Okay. So I never quite remember what the website is, but you can put in a maintenance request through that and they basically bring an extra one of these attached to it and make it higher. So it is basically any post, if you want to come around this way and show there are notches on this side. And so each of these notches is not like a potential height that you can lift your bed frame to, which is nice. Yeah. And also on the website, you can find, under ready to arrive page on movein.urk.edu, you can find the dimensions every three inches. You can block this thing and you can find the top and the bottom of that. Yeah. See, any other questions? Yes, there is one more. I can't answer this one. Someone's asking about where they can find the room dimensions and the room dimensions are actually on the hall website, on U-Ark Housing's website. So you can find it in each individual hall. You updated that recently. Oh, I did. That's my thing. Nice. I love it. Yeah. So you'll be able to find room specifics there. I think I said this before. I can't quite remember, but each of the rooms are the same. So whatever you see there is, it'll be the same no matter what your room number is, which is nice. Any other questions that are coming in about this great hall of 200 people and with a fantastic CRE? We got nothing right now. Okay. Beautiful. So we do have, you know, new students coming in who are going to be freshmen or first year students. What would you have told yourself three years ago? I would have told myself to try and join an organization or like a club or something. And we actually have an initiative or something now called Pick One. And if you visit pickone.york.edu, you can, you know, it shows you all the organizations and all the activities you can do. And our goal is to have our students pick one, you know, organization or something to do alongside of school. So you should go ahead and visit because doing something outside of just your classwork is definitely good for making friends and just having an overall great college experience. That's great. And then any other questions coming in? What is the window measurement? That is another one that we're looking for. I think you might be able to use the inside of that. And then there's another one. If you decide the loft, the bed, and then decide you want to adjust it lower, can you move it yourself? Yep. That is definitely an option. The beds are pretty light, which is nice. You'll probably want one other person helping you just that way. Because when you take the bed frame off of the post, they'll fall in. So if you have somebody helping you, it'll help keep everything even. But you can totally take it down yourself if you want. Or if it's, let's say you requested to have it lofted really high, it'll probably just be easier for you to put in a maintenance request because it's just kind of bulky, you know. What's that window? So the window is 44 inches wide and 51 and a half inches tall. Oh, and I can do the depth as well. Oh, because of the lip there, yeah. Should I do the whole thing or just this part? I would just do the little lip there. Actually, yeah, I can do both. So the full edge is 21 inches and the depth of the window is about 8 and a half inches. Okay, excellent. Well, if that's all the questions, then we may just have Talia tell us why we should be so excited about coming this fall. So I might be a little bit biased because this will, like I said, be my third year in the Holcomb Futural Community, but I love our community. I mean, we always have so much going on, especially since Holcomb is our international student hall. That's where the Office of International Students and Scholars is. It's a really, really cool community. A lot of diverse people, a lot of diverse programming that we do. So it's nice because this is definitely a good community where if you want to kind of push yourself a little bit and maybe go to one of our global series events, which features different countries from around the world, you can learn about other countries and it's in the comfort of your home. So it feels safe, but it's something new that maybe you haven't done before. We also have, I mean, it's a small community, which is really nice even with Holcomb attached as part of our community. It's still pretty small. We have a lot of RAs though, and so it's really easy to get to know who your RAs are. My office is located in Holcomb, but something that I'm going to be doing every week is just hanging out at the front desk and stuff because I know it can be scary to go to a different building, but I definitely, please do not be afraid of me. I really, really love to get to know all of the residents in the buildings. I love going to the events and seeing who everybody is and so please don't be afraid to say hi. I'm not me, I promise. But it's just, it's a good spot physically to be to because we are at the top of the hill, so you won't have to climb the hill to get to your classes or go and get food or anything. You're sitting pretty right in the middle of it all. I mean, we have, like I said earlier, the bookstore, the union, full right. You know, all of this stuff is really close to us. So it makes your life a little bit easier. Thanks. We got some more questions. Yeah, while you're talking. So is a built as single room the same as the one we're looking at right now? Does a single room look the same as this? Yeah, or just have the same dimensions, same size? It'll be smaller. I'd say a single room is kind of right where I'm at to the window a little bit. That's kind of dramatic, but like, it's a little bit smaller so it doesn't have enough room to fit an entire second set of furniture. But like I said before, it still has, you know, you still have a wardrobe, you still have your bed, desk, dresser, all of that good stuff in there too. Cool. Yeah, and you can find the dimensions for the single and double rooms on the website. It'll differentiate between which is which. Well, do you want to wave us out? Yes, sure. Well, thank you so much for signing in, for watching. Definitely if you have any questions, you can call the housing office or, you know, they'll get you connected with me and I'm happy to answer any questions that you might think of after the fact. But other than that, I mean, we'll see you soon. Just about a month. It's just super exciting. Thanks, y'all.