 Hi y'all, my name's Abby. I'm one of the conference ambassadors on campus over the summer. My name's Lawn. I'm also a conference ambassador this summer. So we will be giving you guys a tour of Campston Hall. This is the only female, this is one of the three female doors on campus. So we'll go ahead and get started, but before we do, I want to introduce our lovely cameraman. Thank you. Hey everyone, my name's Henry. Does it look good? All right. Yeah. My name's Henry and I'm going to be the cameraman today. I'll be monitoring a chat. So let me know if you have any questions and I'll be sure to ask Abby and Lawn about them and also let us know where you're tuning in from like sitting in state. So Abby, Lawn, what's up first? Cool. So before we get started, if you have any questions again, let Henry know. But we're going to get started here and this is the front desk of Gibson. You'll see this as soon as you walk into the dorm. We will have a hall admin here or we will have a RA staff here, which is one of our resident assistants. You can come check out any playing pong table, pool table, anything like that. Just kidding, there are nothing like that here. You can check out the cooking equipment here. Just other equipment here in general. Any cooking equipment, board games, anything like that, you can come check out here. If you have any questions, you can also come down to the front desk and they will be here to help you out. Gotcha. If you need a vacuum or a broom or anything like that for your room, you can come to the front desk and check that out. All you need is just an ID. You hand it to them and they'll trade you out for whatever you need. Gotcha. So you will get letters here, any cards, some Amazon packages might fit in here, but everything else you will pick. Any big packages will be picked up at Gregson and then these lockers, your combination and your locker number will be available on your housing portal. You can log in, find that and check this weekly if you want to see if you have any letters. Gotcha. Over here we have our laundry room. So there are three washers and four dryers. There is a vending machine, two vending machines and an ice maker. Right now our vending machines are empty because we are in the process of switching from Pepsi to Coke. So hopefully by the time you guys start arriving those vending machines will be full and those will be available to you. There are very limited amount of vending machines, so when you're doing laundry make sure to please keep an eye on your laundry and there will also be a new laundry system put in place in the fall where you will be using the app called Speed Queen and so you will have two washes and two dryers, two drys per week. So once you get on campus just keep a lookout for that to see how that works and what you need to do for that. Gotcha. Anything over it's only about a dollar and fifty charge for every additional wash and dry. Gotcha. All right what's up next? Next I'm going to take you guys to the kitchen area. So what are y'all studying? What's y'all's majors? Right now I'm a communication major with my minor in the year. What about you Abby? I'm an international global studies major with my major in Spanish. We love international studies that is that was what my major was. I teach in the class. It's the cool kids major. It is the cool kids major. Everyone's a major in international studies. It's like I'm calm down. All right so now we're on the second floor. All right this is going to be your kitchen slash lounge space. So anytime you guys want to cook meals or like bake cookies or things like that you'll come up and do that. I know last year we actually had someone like bake like a lot of cookies and came up and play card games. A lot of your arguments are actually going to be held here. What we did last year was like waffles during the study sessions which was nice. We had like a bunch of waffles. The space is great for meeting as well and of course the communal fridge. Anything that you want make sure you put your name on it because first come, first serve, and a shot. Yeah definitely definitely have it labeled because then it's going to be communal food. But yeah this is the communal space. A lot of times when we get up here, maybe my friends watch tv up here. We play video games up here. Things like that all year. So this is kind of like where you see the most of the kids here. Gotcha and what's outside here can you tell us more about like where Gibson Hall is at? All right so Gibson Hall is located in Central Campus. So right in front of us actually is you can see the lines. That's going to be 1021, one of the dining halls as well as Starbucks. So you guys located right across the street from the Starbucks which is a temptation for Berkshire students. And then right next to that is going to be the Founders' Food Halls that has things like Swim's Chicken, Gustavo, and just green table, things like that. As well as 1021 should not be an upstream into dinner hours I do believe. That's something that's coming and they're doing a new addition on this side of it. Awesome so very convenient location. Yes it's great especially if you're in morning class like we used to run up and grab a bagel all the time. So that would be last year. Yeah all right what's up next? Next one is if you guys to the rent. So I know both of you are going to be RAs this upcoming semester. Can you explain a little bit what RAs are? I'll explain that to you if you don't know what you're doing. So RAs is a residential assistant. They can be located on your floor. Each floor has at least one residential assistant. As you can see in Gibson this is one of the RA rooms that says residential assistant. A lot of the rooms will say that but they basically live on your hallway. They will be in charge of working on your roommate agreement. They will be making the dorm a very fun community friendly building. When you move in you'll see something like this. On your door we call them door decks and they will work on bulletin boards throughout the whole year. They will host programs but they are kind of the ones that supervise residents. We don't really are in charge of you. We're not like watching you all the time but we're just here to make sure that you guys are staying safe. Making sure that residents are following any safety protocols that we have and just overall trying to make your freshman experience as fun as possible and make sure that you guys are just not burning stuff and burning. Yeah a good resource to use. I will be in Holcomb so if y'all ever need anything I'll be over there. Most likely be in Maple West. All right so this is the bathroom. Yes El Vavio. These are the bathrooms. Most bathrooms have about three toilets two showers. The only bathroom that's a little bit different is the one that's in the middle on the first floor and that's just because it has like two showers and like one toilet in the middle but the most part this is your setup. Bathrooms there's no rules about to like when to come in and out. The only difference the only thing about bathrooms is you can't throw like personal trash into here and if you're in here like after a certain amount of time you may hear knock on the door that's like already on duty. There's making sure that there's no one hurt or injured in the bathrooms. And because this is a female residence hall so only female residents in the storm can use the bathrooms. Yes for the most part if there's ever any male guest what will happen is most of the time there'll be some like a woman in front of the door being like hey just so you know there's a guy in like style one or two or three. That's how it worked last year and it was a very like well put system because make sure that no girl has to walk in on a guy and vice versa. Gotcha all right so now I believe we're going to go see a room. Yeah so and I think to add them to these bathrooms so these bathrooms are cleaned Monday through Friday so Saturday and Sunday our ISA staff does not work so the bathrooms may get a little bit icky but they are clean fresh things in the morning. Once the year rolls around there'll be a little sign posted outside the bathroom that will have the cleaning schedule hours and you can see what time the ISA team will be here and you can play in your showers according to that time. And the ISA team here is absolutely great they're genuinely some of the sweetest people. They are amazing and please treat them nicely because they are they help keep the the halls clean and they're just perfect. So now we're going to look at what everyone's been waiting for in your room. Yeah and be sure y'all to let us uh ask us any questions you have about Gibson about the room and anything in in general. Yeah so this is a typical layout of a double style room of Gibson. You have your two beds, two desks, and right stand you both will have a walk-in closet kind of field and then you have this built-in chest that you can divide the doors with your roommate and then each bathroom and or each room in Gibson has a bathroom that is available. And maybe we're not saying that sometimes corner rooms are like a little bit bigger but for most practice are your standard rooms. And all the furniture will be the same right? Yes all the furniture might have stacked like the drawer is really Google-able as well so like I could like use their drawers to kind of make like a divide. I think people put their drawers under their beds as well as for the beds themselves. As you guys can see that they're a little bit higher than normal I guess but for the most part if you guys like I don't exactly like where the bed is on these notches you can put in the main entrance requests or do it yourself to have them um raise the bed. So you put it up to here which I believe last home itself is about 36 inches high and then you could also add another bed post if you just feel like that's not high enough for you. This one actually has a little view of founders and right next to founders is a building called Kemple. So for any of you like Fulbright majors and things like communication like theater and things like that the most of your classes will be held in Kemple. The business building is also a business building so any business students congratulations we have three minutes before we throw the business and it's not too far from Harlan Park and Garage. It seems like it's just the perfect location because the Greek theater is also right next to us. The Greek theater is so great like when they put on concerts like you don't even have to like leave your room if you want to hear on some time but I always love that they're like yeah yeah. I personally love studying at the Greek theater once it gets a little bit cooler because I hate the hot I can't stand it. I would be out there in the Greek theater as an RA anytime my residents are like I just need to get out I need to just get out of the room I will take them down to the Greek theater. This past year I took two residents and we were doing cartwheels in the lawn so it's really fun I would definitely suggest to go out there bring your friends get some coffee at night you know coffee but like something you can go to paint at night. Sometimes you need coffee at night if you're studying for the materials. We started off stargazing so we bought like a bunch of like our blankets and stuff and stargaze but then it kind of turned into just kind of dancing in the dark. It was amazing. I love the Greek theater so much. It's like if you're a reader one of the spaces like I said there was a ledge in the kitchen but also like the Greek theater is a great place to like have a picnic putting your headphones and just read. Gotcha perfect location got access to everything. My favorite book um putting me on the spot here I would say it's gonna be nerdy but Ender's Shadow um it's a do you know what Ender's game is? Okay well it's a science it's a science fiction book and it's pretty interesting um but yeah that's do you all favorite books? Put me put me on the spot I'm gonna put you on the spot. Um I'm such an avid reader. I think like series wise it's a little childish but like my favorite book series is called Vampire Academy for sure. I've been reading those books since I was like 12. Stand alone books it's a little sad for anyone who's ever read the book but there's a book that's called Speak. It's super sad like I love it. My favorite book. I've got two books here and one of them so basic that's why I threw in another one because everyone's gonna be like oh I read that. But um I was a hardcore Percy Jackson book reader and I'm just telling you my parents bought me the whole book series for my birthday. I read them all like two lives three times through so that that is my book and then um Red Queen the Red Queen series some sort of another big favorite of mine but I used to be a big book nerd or big book worm in high school and junior high I'm trying to get back into it so slowly and slowly I start getting into it. Gotcha well um speaking of reading I'm gonna read off some questions for you how about I was thinking about that and I was like you're gonna like that you're gonna hate it so yeah so we got some questions first one what room number are we in? And all the rooms um most most of the rooms are gonna be formatted similarly some of them may be a little bit bigger like Lana said um but same furniture same layout. Side rooms I think the in rooms have a little bit of difference to them but fortunately we have a can going on right now so we can't do that. Yeah I think I like the important rooms so I can tell you it's the same furniture you just like for the one of the first courses you're gonna have more windows and it's not a little bit wider but it's the same furniture. Next question what are the measurements of the desk? And here we go. All right I'm just gonna start from the actual desk spot and not these are actual measurements. Let's see where all right that's about two feet eight inches. Two feet eight inches long and then could you also do the width as well? I'm like measuring things. It's about two feet. Two feet wide and then let's get the height. That's two feet five inches. Two feet five inches tall. Next question the housing website lists dimensions for a wardrobe. What is that? I assume it's just um this closet here a lot of the um uh residence halls they have wardrobes or armoires that are movable but I assume they're talking about this but we can get the dimensions for uh for this wardrobe. Let's see yeah in this right here I guess we call the dresser maybe. Yeah you got the list. This might be the this might this might be the wardrobe. Oh really? Yeah so this is supposed to be 22 inches by 54 by 80 so. We're checking to see if it's 80. Yeah go ahead and verify. And we're in the process of updating our um our measurements on our website so um be sure uh and be able to look up for that. I mean I'm I'm six two and it's five five. All right next question um can we see two four eight or three four eight? Do those rooms have three double windows so we can only go in this room because we have a camp going on um this is one that we know is not occupied but Lana do you happen to know? Uh what comes to that? Two four eight and three four eight. Two four eight. So they'd be right next to us. Um so those would be one of the corner rooms like right now since they look like we're off the same side of this room. They do have three three windows in my think. Yeah three double windows maybe. Some of the corners. Some of the corners I don't know if the corners do have multiple windows. I'm not sure about the ones on the side. Sure. Got you. Can we see inside the closets? Of course. So this is what the closet looks like and feel free to let us know if you're looking for anything else. Okay next question. Oh also y'all we're going to be uploading this onto our YouTube page so uh just be a look up for that. Can you show us the wall with the windows? Do they go across the whole wall? Nope. So this is the wall with the window so about um two-thirds half of that wall is made up by the window. Can you uh can you show inside the closet? We just did that. I would feel free if y'all need to look inside uh let me know again. Can you give measurement of the wall space next to the window? All right. Just measurements. I'm just going to go ahead and plug in A-week here for um if you're coming to student. Oh yes yes please. Uh so A-week are sometimes students welcome because it's going to be that first week right before class and then you guys always going to arrive on campus. Basically you guys are going to be like a bunch of events held is just really meant to help students feel welcomed on campus. Some of those include touring like what buildings will be made like for your major. So for mine I'm in the Fulbright College so we got to see Kempel, we went to Old Main, went to a couple of other buildings. I mean it differs for your major things like that. Also the dorms go a lot. I can say for a fact that Gibson has one of the best communities since it is an all-girls floor uh dorm. I know like my first week here literally all the girls have their doors open and like it was so cool you could just walk in a small room and just watch movies and things like that. So that was a great experience like I said there's a lot of baking, sometimes watching TVs. It sounds a little cliche but like it's a great dorm and a great sense of community. And Gibson especially has like like almost a hundred students. Yeah there's 98 students. Yeah so it's one of those smaller dorms so I feel like it's but makes it easy to have a tight knit community because everyone knows each other. Yeah like I can't tell you how many times like I live on first one I would just come up to the third floor and hang out with friends. Gotcha. Do you have those measurements for us? Yeah so the link from here to that wall is four feet and one inch. Four feet one inch. And then from the floor to the ceiling it is nine feet eleven inches. Nine feet eleven inches awesome thank you. Next question what are the dimensions of the nightstands? So let's see what's these. Pull one out so they can kind of see it. Yeah. Watch your fingers. Removable. All right. Two feet long. But in a half wide. Put it in a half wide. Got some creaky stairs. Creaky floor. Two feet and six inches tall. Tall. Awesome thank you. There's a lock here. Yeah. So I felt like everything's about this dorm. I feel like I have like a really valuable metal. It's like from the air room that you don't want to part with. You don't always just put a lock on here. Yeah. Also another storage space we didn't show off is is up here because there's technically this. So if you're you have a step stool or you just have to be really tall and you can store some stuff up there. Yeah like you can store like your winter summer clothes and things like that. It's a great storage space. I burst it in use as much because it's like way taller than I really did. Next question is how tall is it between the bottom and top shelf? I assume it's that. Please let us know which shelf. I assume it's going to be this. One foot and one inch. Will you be showing what the corner room looks like? So we can't show what a corner room looks like because we currently have a camp going on but. We have toured corner rooms in the past so if you look at our archive of you our home live videos you will see us where we toured. Yeah it opens in like room 144 specifically I can answer all of your questions. But like those corner rooms that show me those questions I can answer is the best five of these. Gotcha. So we're all up to date on questions so just want to do one of you all want to talk about pick one. So if you haven't received an email yet you will soon which by now you should have but pick one is a good way is a good opportunity for freshmen to get involved on campus so we will receive a big list of different groups that you can all get involved in on campus. I was involved in the u rec one so we had one of the things that we were able to do we were able to do a tour of the hyper and in that tour we did a scavenger hunt so they had different stations put up in different locations of the hyper in the gym in the basketball court in the racquetball room so they were just all over you had to fill them out and you got your passport stamped or signed by one of the members at the destiny and you could turn it in for a chance to win like a prize I don't remember exactly what it was it was like a massive koo koo game yeah there are multiple ones that you can get involved in off the top of my head I remember there was a university programs one there was a if you're involved in greek life there was a greek life one um there is I'm gonna put the best one so right yeah honestly go for it all right so best two games for the ones oh yeah this is definitely personal opinion but I did it and I encourage everyone bleed offs and RIC are some of the best ways to get involved in campus specifically dorm life so if you're someone who's like I live in the dorms and like I want to put on an event for my dorm I'm like I don't want to necessarily go through the RA to do it you can either be an rs representative or talk to a rc representative they basically put together bills like some fun things that make the dorm lives better like one thing that we did was like a flower bouquet thing I can't remember exactly but that got funneled through uh RIC things like that RIC is just a great way to feel like to like feel and actually make a difference on campus because you are constantly doing things that are gonna benefit not only dorms but campus lives and then lead hauls is just great if you want something that's like kind of as much responsibility as much like time commitment but I do want to help out a little lead hauls is kind of service like a voice to the rs representatives so they get together they plan events not only for lead hauls but talk about events that want to get planned through RIC I know one last year was like something to do with palm friend and wanting to like big bouncy house indoors and what they have what they did was they talked to the lead hauls talked to the residents and all that got back to the representative who voted on whether or not they believed that we should do it seems like lots of great ways to get get involved on campus I highly encourage campus I was I was involved a lot in lead hauls um I'm actually going to be part of the lead more program um which is still hauls under lead hauls but it is for upper class only um so if you're in lead hauls and you're in um if you're had like a whole program in whole program you will see me there and then I will see you around on the campus or on campus when you have events like that um campus one gotcha so we get some more questions coming in can you give us the dimensions between the wall shelves and the door wall space left of the shelves so um I guess we can measure from like here and then also from here to the wall because the measure it to the wall between the space well they said the space left of the shelves so it should be yeah so for this site because they wanted to um between the they wanted to see the dimensions to the oh yeah do it to the back avoid that little little notch or sorry I said back move it like right here but from here to the wall it's five feet 11 inches gotcha um five feet 11 inches for that could you also because they said dimensions well because the height would be the same um everywhere across the room okay where are the outlets located on the walls are there any behind the beds or on the window wall so let's do some counting so there's one here I know that yeah there's two plugs here yeah four plugs here there is a plug behind here there's like one okay yeah I think that's wonderful so three of these are not four so so there's about um eight total in the room eight plugs um 10 to the core over here okay oh yeah this thing over here gotcha so about about 10 um and so it looks like there's outlets on the wall by the window but not on the window by the door so your closest plug would be right here and then below there as well okay how tall is the space under the bed if it's fully lofted fully lofted these have to you have to turn in a fix of a quest if it's fully lofted and go up to 35 inches and a current configuration but then go google ur ua rk and fix it and tell them you want it to be lofted 35 inches so 35 plus 35 is 70 so it should be able to go to around 70 and every three inches between those two unfortunately this I feel like this room is tall Gibson rooms are taller than other rooms so that way you don't know if you do it yeah because that way you don't hit your head you know if you do it to the tallest height you have some residents who had it all the way yeah no I know friends who like I don't even go like an entire gaming console under their beds okay and have like a cool game set up so that's like as high as possible I don't really like to have like a book like kind of like a bookcase staircase that actually led all the way up to her bed it was really cool yeah so you go real high with these yeah and like you literally okay we have another question coming in measurement from the desk to the bottom shelf so I guess from this area and just a reminder all this is movable what we'll do the default so from here up to the wall one foot 11 inches one foot 11 inches that's unusual oh yeah so this is one of the key arms that actually have space in here as well as cabinet space so this is great because you don't have to go to the bathroom for things like brush your teeth in the morning like air routine you can do all that in your own room which is really great because I don't know a lot of people who are like wish they had that conversation yeah it's it's super convenient as someone who did not have a sink I really wish I did good glad glad that it's a sink but it also works too yeah do you need a tabletop fan here since there's a ceiling fan what do you think lana like just a another fan that you could buy yeah I have my own just because I like to be very cold around the sleeve so I just put like one that clip onto my bed post but honestly these rooms are really good about both the fan and the exit keeping the room pretty cool so just first of our friends if you like if you'd like to be bottled up just get one because you won't line but you really don't need it and where's the thermostat in this room all right the thermostat is going to be located right here the first year and this thermostat is regulated by our housing facilities so unfortunately when you walk in the winter when you want the room to be warmer you won't be able to entail our facilities teams comes in and raises it for the whole dorm I think it's one of the downfalls of this room it's just not being able to control the temperature we do have some dorms on campus but unfortunately this is not yeah because it's all it's regulated by the by the building yeah it's a piping system that has to the whole building switches over at once because these older buildings are just like that I will say the heating kicks on fairly quickly when it like gets to the colder it's more like in the summer time you're like I really wanted to be cold it might take a little longer to kick in to the cooling system yeah what we do is we look at the temperature when we do our best gauge we're just we'll start the start the conversion and it takes a couple of days in Arkansas whether it's notorious like people so we may have it and like in the spring and maybe not the right temperature for a while so we believe it we try to do our best to get it I will say I have a lot of knowledge in Arkansas whether it did bring one of the best memories from last year I don't know if you participated in a snow again but basically it snowed for like a week straight and when I tell you like people were sledding down the hills I don't want to go down on a canoe I don't want to go down on a stop sign it was just amazing I think you see all pink is coming together just really add like a bunch of kids classes for cancel it was I love seeing it again it was so much fun yeah the hot stack we actually went down we don't recommend you do this too but it's doing with caution but over by the reed in front of the stadium there is a huge like down sloping hill we found like an inflatable canoe that had been had popped on one side so me and the girls from our staff took it and we went at this point the snow had melted it was purely ice we took the inflatable canoe and we were going downhill it was very scary we were going too fast we had to abort the canoe and we rolled down the list the rest of the way in the hill but you're alive but we're alive it was very very painful a lot nothing like that happens absolutely yeah it's like sometimes it's a little scary but it's like it was so much fun I cannot stress I hope that happens again honestly because it was like the most fun that we had classes were canceled we did not cocoa we had like massive snowball fights it was great especially Gibson like because you're right there by the Dixon hill it was so much fun yeah it was amazing we got some more questions coming in can you measure under the sink please so I'd say maybe we should uh I guess just the inside is the sink yeah four inches wide and then it's one foot 10 inches long and then could you get the height as well and then two feet and two inches tall two feet two inches tall it's very thick this next question so just to confirm the only outlets are under the wall shelves and by the sink so which by the sink on the wall by the window two more there yeah and then on kind of this the I guess you'd say the wall uh the wall on the left that has um all the shelves there's some outlets here and then also uh down down there as well definitely recommend bringing extension cords for whatever saw our strips work they were clutched here mm-hmm does one switch control both the fan and the light or is there two switches one for each okay so now the work is flip your switch and then it's one of these let's see if I can go first try I can do it wow there you go perfect for your fans but you can actually like turn off your light and stuff your thing going this is one of the few rooms I feel like that has a Gibson was one of the few rooms that has a fan yeah it's like I actually don't know if I've ever seen a ceiling fan in a college room yeah but yeah okay so next one is can me and my roommate have two fridges or are we limited to one you know you have signed your housing contract as well towards the middle part of that there is a section that tells you exactly what you can and can't have in your room um also if you go if you look up you are housing handbook you can find it in there as well um you can only have one fridge and one microwave um please do not try and sneak into we do do winter checks so if an art or where the RAs will go through your room before fall closing and make sure that everything is on that is the main goal when we do that is to make sure that you have unplugged everything um no lights nothing is left on um and if we do find the second fridge in the room we do have to remove it and you can pick it up towards the end of the year once you move out and you can take it home um we do not open any any drawers if you have your drawers will stay closed your closet will stay closed um if you have a little futon mama open that we will just simply pull your bed out in this case we would pull this bed out make sure everything is unplugged and make sure that your fridge is unplugged as well but that is the only the only thing that we touch in the room and no big fridge is right yeah so I believe if you can check the housing portal you can double check but I believe it's 3.2 cubic feet um is the size of the fridge that you can have sometimes 3.3 or 3.4 is fine as well just because it does not make a big difference but anything past 4 cubic feet is not allowed gotcha I will say for these rooms like for storing fridge wise uh I've seen people like I didn't look at this desk and put it in because it's move on just put it under their bed as well as just raising their bed up higher putting fridge under there uh it's kind of the bigger room you have like there was going to be a lot more with the space yeah uh Blonde this is a question you need to be able to answer what rooms have the window near the closet like that's the one all right here is it um I think I'm about like those like these windows yeah those gonna be most of the rooms in the dorms will have windows like these and it might have just been sometimes just opposite sides I believe window placement all the time it does change it's like for a corner gotcha so generally the closet will will be by the window right okay do doors stay open on their own or would you need a doorstop if you wanted to prop the door open um no your doors like you just close them um they're actually if you like what I mean well but you don't necessarily need a doorstop I can't figure what I mean like obviously you can close your door but also like it'll stay open on your own yeah it'll stay gotcha and then it's easier all right let's do it are curtains allowed I'm gonna add with the tension rod you can do really very well to do as long as you don't nail anything into the wall or damage the wall you can bring it in yeah as long as there's no current anything you're decently like yeah lock out curtain level but they're pretty good yeah it will definitely drown some uh I was gonna speak to the refrigerator issue you were right 3.2 cubic feet look at that already I mean that's pretty good and in my point of it is one per room not to exceed 0.7 cubic feet that's all 1.3 appliances and refrigerators in our handbook gotcha that's the second time someone with the ring has stopped me this week the first thing went up like penetrate off and I was like all right home freeze these are the floors that have men these are the women's these are split houses just all the all the useless information in my head all right we have an interesting question which bed is a and which one is b this is a that is b but does that really matter it does because when you when we come do checkouts in the fall we do an inspection of your room before you leave and so whatever letter you have down on your housing portal is a letter is a check is a sign we will check so if you say your name is Billy God and you are assigned to b and then your friend Joe is assigned to a and you are it's Billy's assigned to b and he's sleeping on the a bed and he makes a wall a hole in the wall his friend what was my name I said his friend James or Jim it doesn't matter it comes to what charges are but the beds themselves neither one of these is a convention says it's the one on the left and the one on the right but administratively they're not one of the other yeah we do the beds by left to right so the way you read you read from left to right so in any room whatever's on the left is a whatever's on the right but it doesn't need matter and if you do switch sides please notify your r.a. so they can make a change during checkouts this past spring we have so many issues where especially in once you start getting to the four rooms there's there's many issues when it comes to who lived on what side so please just make it easy for us notify your r.a. who will notify the theory of which time you're staying that's what the message doesn't matter just because you can't change it if you get here and you're like I really don't want to sleep by a window communicate with that with the r.a. and then it's it's easy yeah I didn't mean to be like it doesn't matter at all but yeah that's what I was also implying yeah the next thing is what room are we in now we are in 349 aren't we gotcha how much space is there from the end of the bed to the closet by the window so into the bed here is the closet three feet 11 inches almost four feet are we allowed air fryers or rice cookers no that is included in the appliance and electronics page handbook part of the residence hall handbook yeah again if you ever you can find a whole list of it I would suggest hanging a screenshot of it because that is a bit there are a lot of stuff that you think would be allowed but are actually not allowed I know one thing for sure that is very questionable are heating pads those are allowed please just as soon as you are done using them unplug it turn it off unplug it and put it away but yeah be sure to check out the resident handbook by in you can just google you are crescent handbook it'll tell you a list of prohibited items generally in terms of appliances anything with like an open coil is not allowed 1.2 what not to 1.2 there you go most important page uh do all closet doors have towel racks yes and I say that that is certain forever gotcha is there a full length mirror in the room no there's just this mirror that's in there mm-hmm gotcha and that's problems hello where would you put a full length mirror if um we actually have ours oh that's convenient gotcha all right I mean firstly I would put it on the door I mean the door works too yeah you put the command strips command strips what I did was I we actually had like movable dressers so we put it on one of the I put my mirror on my dresser in my roommate which is exactly how it's mine gotcha can you lock the closet there is a lock on the closet um oh interesting so when you when you moved in you only had one key right for your room yeah I'm feeling well it probably wouldn't because then if the purpose is to divide it then like your roommate would be able to get into your yeah so I would assume the answer is technically they lock um but you probably don't have you probably don't have the ability to lock it it's the set it lock so all right well we're all up uh all up to date on our questions so we're gonna start winding it down do y'all have any advice you would give to freshman incoming students um for this storm like specifically don't be worried to leave you don't open that first week like I said that was a great experience first of all you guys like how cool people decorated their room but also it was a great way to make friends in this dorm as I was like we said those one big programs are great a week is great just don't like cut yourself off you're like oh I think I'm just never gonna like this like you don't go out and try the things like I tried marping though I hated it wasn't the worst like trying things like that it's like it's great for the college experience gotcha abby advice words of wisdom just just just get involved on campus don't be afraid to be involved on campus I know it especially if you are coming from very far away the homesickness can really kick in I would be honest my homesickness didn't go away till about March I'm a software now and I've been here over the summer so my homesickness is starting to come back but um getting involved will definitely help definitely look into application for the hogs are actually coming back around in August so definitely look up for that personally I think that is one of the best ways to get involved on campus the Sunday before a week we have a beehives field day and honestly that is where I made some of the friends that I still have now I one of my friends me and him are working together this summer and he was on my team and just a little shout out my team won the league but league hogs I think is one of the best easiest and most funnest ways to get involved on campus I would definitely look out for the application that's coming back in August but um getting involved on campus will definitely help you break down that homesickness and break down your social barriers that you have and then my other one which is really really important is make sure to take time to yourself I know you get caught up in studying if you get a job on campus you can become um you can just get swallowed up in your job and work so make sure to separate the time of the day just for you go out for a walk sit at the Greek theater go to Starbucks and then go to the Greek theater it's it's amazing yeah it's so easy to just it's so easy to step away and get involved um I know so many people that have gotten sick from the stress and not being able to take time to themselves if you ever need help reach out to your wellness r.a. they are they are educated for that specifically you can reach out to your r.a. I have an open door policy with my residents and they are more than welcome to come into my room whenever just not to make sure I'm there but just don't be afraid to push yourself first because now that you are in this environment that is one of the most important and um I just want the most important thing that you can do for yourself just for my first 10 students just because like I was a first-gen student myself I will say that it's definitely a bit of a scare because a lot of students like well I can talk to like sister or brother I can talk to like an aunt or like a parent about this and not everyone has that so community college is a little scary but I will say there are plenty of resources out there for our first generation students to figure things out figure things out like just from like financial aid to employees or just finding like someone to talk to because it is a different struggle when you don't have that person like you can be like hey how do I do this college thing um so for my first-gen students it is scary but there are those resources for you and you should always look at them because they help a lot trust me so it's the M.C. Chaths and the multiple center yeah it is a great place to go the multiple center is amazing can't ring me enough if you have if you have this is the only spot I know this is it but I know the engineering college you will have mentors as well as the Arkansas Bridge Scholarship through the Multicultural Center that Ms. Will does mentors reach out to your mentors mentors they are educated and that as well um any mentors any RA we all know the information that is on campus for any homesickness for any um if you want to get involved more in diversity if you want to discover your culture more anything at all reach out to those mentors into those RA's and they can help you find out what you're looking for yeah I'm just going to throw a name out there because they were honestly a big help for me they're my university perspective teachers professor Jessica Sheets is like the absolute queen she always has those contacts with people's of the other class with Jessica Sheets literally just talked her she's absolutely amazing I know some of the peer mentors that's coming in under her who literally just applied to the job to work with her she's a great contact um I was just having stress especially in classes with her she's a university perspective teacher just use that she actually is a university perspective teacher for first-gen people so Jessica Sheets is like my go-to contact if I need help with anything like she's a great resource as well as the guy at the Multicultural Center well thank you all so much for the great advice we had one last question how do we get a lot our beds lofted before we move in you are like you um you can look up you are fixed and you click on the first link that pops up and then there will be a big green box that says link to you are fix it you click on that it will take you to a google form you can fill that out with your room number you will put exactly what you want how high you want your bed lofted you can put your phone number so they can call you if you have if they have any questions or anything like that and then by the time you move in it should be lofted I believe there is a deadline yes the one month difference we found out yes so in four days you have to get the request and there are a lot so I would suggest doing it soon so definitely team can get on definitely get on it um if you want to you can definitely get a soft mallet you or a friend can come do it just because I was like I'll just do it when I get there so if you want to those these will be going to 35 inches though unless you get that other piece all right well thank you all so much for giving us this tour and yeah y'all can sign us out yeah all right uh this was on an Abigail for the Gibson tour and hope to see you guys soon in the fall awesome thank y'all