 Hi everyone. My name is Grace. First of all, I wanted to welcome you all to our live tour of Gregson Hall and I'm gonna be one of the hosts for today for your tour. Who do we have here? Hi everybody, I'm Keanu Perez. You might have seen me earlier a week or two weeks ago. I'm the Sierra Pomfret Hall helping Grace out today. That's right. You were with us in Pomfret Hall. Good to see you again. So first of all, I'm gonna show you your neighborhood and where Gregson is located. So we're located centrally on campus and over to our left is Bruff and that's where you're gonna have- and we're not outside right now just because it's raining. So we're staying inside instead. We're just gonna peek over from the window. So over here is Bruff Dining Hall. That's where you're gonna eat all of your meals. And we also have Club Red, which is basically like a convenience area where you can grab all the snacks and to-go items. You also have Starbucks, which is just right underneath Bruff, which is a really awesome perk of living in Gregson is you can just walk over there and you can use your app to order online. So you can just walk in, grab it and go. Super awesome. Gregson is also located right next to the Epley Band Hall. So shout out to any of my band residents. Super excited to have you all. Were you in band? I was not in band. I could never play an instrument. So shout out to all of you who can because that is a true talent. So and then we're also located right next to Gibson Hall as well. So those will be our neighbors. Yesterday we did a tour of Gibson. So yeah, right here and there's so much close. Let me get right here in the central area, Starbucks and other places to eat and everything. So it's great. Yeah, absolutely. And it's a two-minute walk from Kimple Hall and the business center, which is also on the right side of Kimple Hall. So it's a very convenient place to live. Let me get a little pan of this small but elegant foyer. Yes, absolutely. And so Gregson Hall is home to co-ed students. We actually only have upperclassmen students in this residence hall. So I'm really excited to have all of you here in the next few weeks. And are we gonna go ahead and show them the stairs? Well, let's go up and look at the front desk maybe first. Yes, all right. So we're just headed up the stairs to go to the front desk area. And this is where you're gonna receive all of your mail and packages and during the business hours we have our Hall admin Adam. He's really great. He loves all of our residents. And so you'll just come here during the package hours to come get any items. And if you have any questions, Adam and any other staff member working here will be able to help you. Yes, and so we have this lovely shield guard and you'll stand right behind it in order to communicate with our staff just for your safety and their safety this year. We want to make sure everyone's keeping safe and healthy. Keeping it safe all the time. We have about seven or eight people watching. So let us know where you're from. We are curious and Joseph glad to have you watching again with us. We like that. Thank you. Great. We'll continue to see more, Grace. Awesome. So on the left and right side of the front desk, this is where you're gonna receive all of your mail and you're gonna have a combination with your roommate. So you're gonna share your mailbox with your roommate and then on the left side, there's also gonna be mailboxes over there as well. Plenty of mail. Yeah, absolutely. And we do handle tens of thousands of packages every semester. A lot of mail coming in and out. Hey, Hailey from Batesville. Glad to have you. Hey Thanks for joining us, Hailey. Shall we head down to the basement area? Smart. And Gregson Hall is made up of four four floors and we have three residential floors and the basement that we're going to is the common space and so that's the place where everyone goes downstairs to hang out and you'll get to see everything as well, but it's great. So you have your rooms and it's pretty quiet on each floor and then you have your common space which is where everyone can kind of relax and hang out and so it's nice to have that separation so you can focus on your studies and get a good night's sleep. So we're just gonna keep on walking and take you to the basement. Makes sense. Would you mind saying hello to Rima from Stuttgart? Oh, Rima, hey, how's it going? Glad you're here joining us. I'm from El Dorado, so I know Stuttgart pretty well. Yeah, that's where we get all of our rice. Yes, yes. The Duck Festival. Yes, the Duck Festival. Okay, so we're gonna head down the stairs and it's kind of echo-y down here, so sorry if I'm And Gregson also is home to Class Plus. Class Plus is the academic resource center for our campus. And so what's really awesome about that is if you ever need any help with your academics and any tutoring or any study guides, Class Plus is gonna be your one-stop shop and so they actually reside in the building. Oh, thanks, Keanu. They reside in the building with us, which is really awesome. Class Plus, yeah. Do you know what the website is to check out Class Plus? Is it just like... I think it's just... I'm gonna put you on the spot. I'm not entirely sure myself. I think it's Class... if you type in Class Plus and you are, you'll certainly get there. Yeah, I'm sure it's that. And so they actually are located in our building, but you have to go outside of our building and around to get to their main entrance just so that they have their own entrance so no one, that our guest and our residents can come through our building. So it's a secure place that they have. We're gonna go ahead and get a pan of this room, which is really nice down here. Welcome to the common space. And so we have some study areas. This is our entertainment area. So you have the giant TV room. A lot of our students come down here and watch movies all the time and hang out. It's also located on the left is the kitchen and on the right is our laundry room. It is the only laundry room in the building, but because we only have three floors, there's not many residents that you're sharing it with, which is nice. You mind if we head in there and show the kitchen in the... Yeah, come on. So over here is where the kitchen is located and in here it's a fully full kitchen and this is also where you're gonna have your ice machine. So if you ever want to come down here and you don't have your own ice machine in your room, you come down here. Meals that if they need additional meals if they don't have a full meal plan, they can utilize this kitchen. So a lot of students come down here. This year what's gonna be different is that we're not having any equipment to check out just because we want to ensure that safety measures with COVID and so just making sure if you do want to cook over here, you just bring all of your pots and pans with you and then if you have any cutlery or cookware, kitchenware, you just bring disposable items and that'll work great for us. Great, okay. All right, so we're gonna head out of the kitchen and you want to go into the laundry room? Yeah, let's take a look. I'm sorry, you told us before how many people live here? Yes, so just about 200 residents live here over the three floors and so here is the laundry area. I'll move away so you can get a better view. So what's really great about the laundry service is that it's actually already included within your fees. So you don't have to bring any money down here to use the laundry service. What you're going to do is just come down here with your laundry and what we really encourage is for you to use the laundry alert and we have the instructions right in here in the laundry room. So it's an app. So basically they're attached to each laundry laundry machine and so whenever laundry is finished, it'll alarm you and so then you can come downstairs and grab your items so that they're just not sitting in here so you can move your items into the dryer and it'll alert you when your stuff is finished. And let you know also and you may have said this that when ones are open so don't even have to come down to check you can just check the laundry alert and know, yeah, that one's open for me. Right, so it's super awesome and if there's ever any problems, we also have these QR codes on each device and so you can always scan these to provide a report so we can have everything fixed as quickly as possible. What else do we have here on this floor, Grace? On this floor, we also have some additional entertainment space and some study rooms. So we'll show you to those. Okay. So over here we have our pool table area and once again this year we're not going to be checking out any equipment just to ensure everyone's safety. But if you do have any items that you'd like to bring such as your own pool sticks and balls and cues, you're welcome to do that. We'd encourage that as well. And so in here, we actually have our two study lounges. So this one is our smaller lounge. It'll fit two to four people and then they'll show you that one and then over here we have a larger study space. So if you ever need to utilize this space for a study group, you can come down here and it it allows for four to six residents in here. Plenty of whiteboards too. Yes, also lots of whiteboards and if I'd also encourage you all to bring your own erase marker so that you can carry them down here on your own just to have those with the whiteboards. Smart. Pro tip. Yes, pro tip. All the tips. We're gonna head back up to the floor and look at one of the residence halls. Yes, we'll look at one of the rooms. Residence rooms, I should say. The community bathroom. Sure. Allison, I think you're right. We are getting the connection is a little bit bad down here in the basement, but we will be putting this on YouTube as soon as it's done and you'll be able to see the full version and we're actually going upstairs now so it should be better. Yeah, that's right. And we've actually been changing up some of the services with our internet access. So that could be why the basement was a little slower. So we apologize for that. Some of our facilities and maintenance staff was down there earlier today, updating it before you all arrived. Updating it making it better. Yeah, I think I think we were a little bit weaker than usual down there in the basement. Okay, so now we're back on the first floor and this is like I said before, this is one of the residential floors. What we're going to do is we're going to take you into a community bathroom. And some things to note about the community bathrooms this year that we're doing a little bit differently. One is that we're going to be cleaning them every day of the week, not just during the weekdays like we used to. We're also going to be cleaning them twice a week or twice a day, which is new. And all the high touch areas like doors and stuff like that are going to be cleaned even more often. So come on in. We'll show you. Obviously, we have the toilets and the sink area. So what's interesting about Gregson is that each area is separate, which a lot of my residents have liked in the past because here a lot of my residents have gone in here to get ready, put makeup on and do their hair. So there's a great vanity area, which yes, there's so much room in the bathroom to get ready and do your makeup and everything. So while we are encouraging everyone to stay six feet apart, the perk of that with Gregson is that our bathrooms are so big that it shouldn't be a problem interacting with your peers and maintaining that space. Sure. And yeah, that vanity is one of the best. That's the best vanity I've seen in all the halls. Right. It's pretty cool. So Keanu is going to show you the showers over here. Give us a view of those showers there. Which isn't a curtain but an actual glass door. Would you mind opening that? A lot of built-in features for soap and towels and things like that. And there's three of them in here. Do you know how many bathrooms there are per floor? Yes. So there's two bathrooms per floor. And so this is going to be on the north side. So the how we separate with co-ed is on this side is going to be all female and then the right side is going to be all male. So that's how the bathrooms are going to be separated. Okay. Okay. Great. So we're about to enter into a residence hall room and this is the perfect time to hit us up with questions about dimensions or anything regarding living in your... There you go. You got it right there. Just head on in and see what we can do. So welcome to one of your future rooms potentially. Every room is a double space and it includes two dressers, two beds. Yeah, go ahead. Two beds, two desks, two desk chairs, and two closets. And the closets are built in, but the rest of the furniture is movable. And also every single room, residential room is wood floor and you have your own independent controlled air, which is nice. And so you also have your internet access individually and your cable access within your room as well. That includes HBO as well, so you have quite a few choices there. Why don't we go ahead and go into the closet and just take a look in there? Yeah, so in the back you have a bathroom towel bowl. Okay. Yeah, like this. And then inside you have your standard rack and shelf. And then I've seen a lot of students put a shoe rack at the bottom. And then up here in the cabinet, I'm too short for this. But I've seen a lot of students put their items of storage. So if you bring any suitcases or luggage, a lot of my students just kind of throw their stuff up there or they create little bins for additional towels or linens or anything like that. So things that are less in use. Sure. So lots of built-in closet space as well as movable furniture for everything else. Yes. Well, why don't we, without any questions about the dimensions, why don't we just go and measure both mattresses? I think they're the same. Yes. But let's give it a go. Can you hold it on this side for me? I feel like we're doing a magic trick. My lovely assistant. All right. This is 78 inches. 78. So almost, there we go. Yeah, 78 inches is a spot on. Okay. All right. Do you want to head over to the other one? Yeah. Let's go ahead and just do both. I think they're the same, but always good to double check. This helps us check what we have on the website. Yeah. And this one's 78 as well. Okay. Both are 78. We had a question from Hailey. She asked, how big is the window? And so why don't we, yeah, why don't we get a length and a width on that? Thanks for tuning in. This is 82 inches for the width. Okay. And let's get you the height as well. So 82 length. It's all of me. And 60 inches for the height. 60 inches for the height. And that ledge is, I don't know, I want to say three or four inches maybe. Yeah. It's just about four inches. Four inch ledge on there too. Okay. Good question. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Well, I'll tell you what. If a couple more questions come in the next minute or two, we'll take them. But let me ask you this. What are you most excited about? Or what have you learned the most working with this community? Ah, okay. Well, that's a great question. So like I said before, Gregson Hall is home to upperclassmen students. And what I've learned about upperclassmen students is you all already kind of understand what, what campus is like. And so now you're kind of figuring out what you want to commit to. So your freshman year kind of tried to do everything or not enough. And so your sophomore, junior, senior year are those make or break times where you're committing to your majors, you're committing to your organizations, you're trying to find internships. And what I love about being a part of that community is that I can help you find those things. And our, our community development assistance can also help you navigate those resources and get you connected to faculty members and other campus partners that can make sure that you're being successful on campus, which is really awesome. It's brilliant. What a wonderful answer. Alison asked, can the beds be lofted? And the answer to that is yes. Yes, they sure can. And they can be lofted to this height if you want yourself or if you need any help, you can just ask us. But if you want them to be lofted with the other bar for this, you'll have to submit a fix it request. And so we can, we can do that action for you before you even get to campus so that whatever height you'd like your bed, you can just put that in the fix it request. Just let us know your room number within that request and our maintenance staff will come in and service it for you before you even arrive. Yeah. And the way to do that, because Hayley asked, ball it up and asked us, how do we do that? housing.uark.edu forward slash F I X I T fix it. And that'll take you to a form that you can fill out. And you can get get us to have it ready for you. And if it's not ready the moment you arrive, it's going to be done very quickly thereafter. So please get that in. Absolutely. And once you all arrive, you're going to meet your community development assistance and you have two for this year. And so what they're going to be here for you is for advising, for mentorship, for things like room issues with facilities or whatever you need. And so if you forget any of this information, you can always utilize them as a resource and they'll help you walk you through how to complete a bed loft dean or if you do have an issue with cable, they'll walk you through the whole process. So and they'll be with you throughout the whole year, which is great. Perfect. All right. Well, excited to have you coming next year. And would you mind waving us out? All right. Bye, everyone. We'll see you in a few weeks. Super excited to see you all. So thank you for tuning in.