 Hi everyone, my name is Freed. I'm an SCA this summer and I'll be giving a tour of Holcomb Hall today. So Holcomb Hall is located on the north side of campus on Garland Avenue. Over here you'll find basically the Garland Garage which a lot of you may park in. And over here is going to be the law school and also the central part of campus which includes the Union, Mons Library and a lot of other places where you'll spend a lot of time at. But we'll just go ahead and head on in and kind of look around and see what you're going to be living, where you're going to be living. Perfect. Thank you. Let me start the tour going this way and kind of go through the common areas and see where you're going to be spending a lot of time if you're hanging out with people. Just a couple of fun facts about Holcomb Hall. It is home to 140 co-ed students and the Office of International Students and Scholars which is important to know just if you see how many people you're going to be living with outside of your one roommate. So if we come in here, there's a couple of different common areas but back here I think this space can be reserved for meetings and stuff. Yes. This space is great because it also has 24 hour, quiet hour. So any time of day if you need a study space in your residence this is a great place to go. There's a lot of tables and chairs and if you want to come study with your friends if you don't want to go to the library or the Union or any other study space this is a great option. And it's kind of cutesy. I like the yellow walls. So we'll just go ahead and head out and look at some more of the common areas. Another fun fact about this hall is that it's an academic year hall so when there are things like Christmas and Thanksgiving break the hall doesn't close so you can stay here if you need to, a couple of days after, or if you want to stay for the entire break. So right here is a kitchen. It's a kitchen without a stove or an oven as well so we just have this microwave, this fridge, cabinet space and a sink but you're more than welcome to use that at any point in time moving into this room. And the main kitchen most residents use is in the basement. That one has an oven and stove and all of that and we'll show you that when we hit that way. So this is like the piano room. I also think this is very cute. I love the furniture. You can come in here and hang out. You can play the piano if that's something that you're into. And it also connects to the main living room which is where we'll move into next. So this living room hosts a lot of events specifically for international students so you'll see a lot of things being advertised called the Global Series which will basically immerse people that are not part of those specific cultures and what those cultures do. There are a lot of fun events. It has a lot of food. It's very fun and this adds on to the fact that like on any given year the international student population in Holcomb Hall makes up 40% to 50% of the building which allows these residents to interact and meet people that you probably wouldn't meet before especially if you're not living in Holcomb Hall. So again there's a lot of seating. There's a lot of tables. Again I just think this building is so cute. I love the yellow walls. So from here we're going to kind of just move down to look at the room that you may be staying in and kind of like a simulation of what you may be staying in and the washers and dryers. Before we do that we have the front desk and mailboxes. So these mailboxes we'll start with that are actually for future. So you won't use these if you live in Holcomb but moving over we have the front desk. So the front desk is where if you have any questions, comments, concerns you can come here and get help most of the day and night. It's going to be staffed during the day by a desk admin which here it's Missy, our lovely wonderful Missy. But here they can help you kind of if you need mail that doesn't fit your mailbox I'll give you that. If you have any specific questions you can also come here to run out pans and pots and other things. If you're planning on using the kitchen or if there's like a pool table or something. If there's anything else that you can check out it'll be here. And packages too for both Holcomb and Futural. So moving in here this is where the mailboxes for Holcomb is. So here you'll have to use your code. You'll spend here. You'll find your code in your housing portal and you'll use that throughout the year. The specific mailbox that you have it will have a number that correlates to whatever room you're in. And you do share a mailbox with your roommate that's important to note. So now we'll just move down into the basement and we'll get some of the rooms and also some other comment areas. Also this is where the International Student and Scholar office is. So do you want to say hi real quick we are on live. So they do a lot of amazing programs here in Holcomb that I highly recommend everyone attend. So we'll just work our way down the stairs. So Holcomb has three floors and the basement. So technically four total and the basement is for female residents. And the second floor is for male residents. And the third floor is also for female residents. So we'll work our way down to the washing machines and everything like that. Put your down in here. There's someone doing laundry. This is an exact combination of like you may be doing a chair. So here are four or four sets of washers and dryers down here. What's going to be different this year about laundry than it has in the past is that we're going to be using a laundry alert app called Speed Queen. So with Speed Queen you're going to want to download this app and you get two washes a week. After those washes run out for the semester you will be spending $1.50 to wash any more of those clothes if you have any more loads. We also recommend that you bring your detergent and pods and anything like that. Because we do not provide that for you. There's also some pretty good space. One thing I do recommend, or I know some of my friends do as well as whatever we're doing laundry. We'll sit down here and we'll work on homework and all the radios we've done. Luckily Holcomb has like a couple of tables. And also you'll find a vending machine ever so often in this building as well. But yeah, so this is laundry. We also have an ice machine. Some recycling sections and things like that. So let's move on down to the other common area. Pretty long hallway so if you have any questions I can answer them right now. Absolutely. Someone asked about a single room but we will get to those questions soon. But any questions you guys have send them in the comments. If you want let us know where you're tuning in from. And if you're going to be living in Holcomb shout out to Holcomb. Do you know which room numbers we're looking at? I think one of them is 14 or 15 and the other one is... I don't remember what the one on the end of the hall is but we don't know. So this is another common area. This one's pretty fun if you're looking to like watch a movie or anything like that. There's a lot of couches. A lot of places to sleep I would argue if you want to take a nap. But we also have our ping pong table and our pool table. Like I said earlier you can rent the supplies for these two tables out of the front desk. And then whenever you're done they'll take your ideas collateral. Whenever you're done you'll go back and give that stuff back to the front desk and then you get your idea back. We're also coming up on the kitchen that does have a stove and a microwave. That is right here. So again if you're looking to cook something there's no need to bring your own pots and pans to the university. We rent that out of the front desk. I would also argue that like having those extra pots and pans that that's something that you want to bring just takes up space. So if you're asking yourself whether you're not you need it you do not need it. So I would just leave it at home. But nice fridge you can keep stuff in it. There's stuff in it right now. And it's free for anyone to use. Label your stuff though. Please label your stuff. We have a couple of water fountains. What's cool about the water fountains is that it has something to fill up your water bottle. So it makes it pretty convenient. So we'll move on to looking at a double and a single room real quick. So again this is a basement. It houses the women in the door. So we'll move down here and look at the double first. And I will give you some dimensions and things like that. This is room 15. Anybody living in 15. So this is a typical double room in Holcomb. I'm just going to kind of list off the dimensions so bear with me. But the typical room dimensions, the length is 15 feet by 3 inches. The width is 11 feet by 9 inches. A mattress is going to be the length is going to be 80 inches. The width is going to be 36 inches. The wardrobe, which will be your closet. We'll go ahead and like inside with this one of those. It's going to be 44 inches by 20 inches by 74 inches. The cool thing about these closets is not only can you hang your stuff. You can also put stuff on this top shelf and kind of store things. And they're kind of deep as well. So I wouldn't worry too much about running out of space. And this is coming from someone who chronically overpacks. And then you also have your mirror right here. All of them have a mirror. So if you live in Holcomb you do not need to bring your own unless you just want another one. Exactly. Then we also have your chest of drawers. So each roommate is going to get a chest of drawers. They're also a pretty good size. They're very deep. Can we grab the dimensions of that? Yeah, I have it right here. So it's 28 by 22 by 45 inches. And then every roommate also gets a desk. It's going to be on this side. A desk with a chair. Also something I want to kind of point out is whenever you do move into these buildings you cannot move out the furniture. So if you want to bring your own chair you're more than welcome to. This will have to stay in your room though. There's no way that we can get rid of it. Fun fact about these chairs, if you do bring your own there's this nice little storage above the closet. It is big enough and deep enough to put this chair that comes with the room in it. So yeah, just a fun little tidbit. So the dimensions of the desk are 42 by 24 by 30 inches. And the desk chair is 23 by 21 by 33 inches. We have a question about the window. What is the width of the window please? It is 60 inches and then the height is 68 inches. Lovely, thank you. So I also want to plug that on the housing website when you go to look at these rooms on any dorm you can actually go and measure those things yourself if you have any other specific questions that we don't have the answers to right now. It's really helpful, it's fun to look at and a lot of questions can be answered on the website if we're not able to do that. Housing.uark.edu. Yes. That is everything in the room. Someone asked how many outlets are there and where are they located? So that's a really good question. The outlets seem to be hidden sometimes. I believe there's four total. Yeah. There's definitely one between the closets. There's two back here as well. So there's two outlets, four total along the wall of the closets. And I'm sure that's the same over here. Obviously you need places to plug in your phone, your computer, behind your desk. Right now the furniture is kind of pushed up against but you can see here there's definitely one behind the headboard. So. And you're more than welcome in the room to move the furniture however you want. We just make sure to say that you can't move the furniture out of the rooms. So if you want to adjust the way that this looks right now that is completely fine. Someone asked if an Ethernet wire is required. Do we know that? It's not required but we definitely have an outlet for it. I'm pretty confident. Every room should have one. Beautiful. We also have connections to like TV, like cable and things like that. You can never really bring your own Ethernet. It's just not required. Yes. Keep your questions coming you guys. We have several about a single room. We will head there next. Do residents ever use peel and stick wallpaper over the brown walls? So as of this year that is not allowed. I think in the past people have done that. But it does leave quite a bit of damage. So that is not anymore allowed. But that's a great question. I'm going to move to the single room and just answer questions as we go. Sure. Awesome. So the single room is going to be down here. On this hall I believe there's only two single rooms and it's down at this end. So this is a female restroom because the floor is for females. We won't be stepping in there today but that is where the restroom is in the basement. Yeah. And with just public bathrooms you also have your RAs. So there will always be an RIN duty. If you hear a knock on the door that says RIN duty you're not in trouble. They just want to make sure that everything's okay in there. So before you move in I think that should be an expectation whenever you're in a polycrustrum. Yes. So here's one of the singles. This is room 10 on the basement. Again it's basically a double smaller. It comes with all the same things. It's got the same bed dimensions. The total room dimensions are going to be smaller but you can definitely find that on the website on how that information right now. You see your chest of drawers. You get this little side table. You get your desk. And you get two closets actually. Yes. So there's a closet right there and then another closet right here. Same exact dimensions, same mirror, everything. But yeah. Could you talk about hanging things on the wall briefly? Yeah. So hanging things on the wall, definitely cool. Usually I would recommend using a command hook. I know some of the norms allow you to use monkey hooks. I don't know if this is one of them. So it's not one of those. Don't use monkey hooks here. But yeah. So hanging things, definitely recommend command hooks. Anything like that. Most of the time you're getting ready to move out. I know there's worry and stress when you're moving them and we'll move paint. But you can just leave them on the wall. I'm pretty confident. At least they did that this past year with housing and then they will take care of that issue. Awesome. Someone was asking, could we measure the inside of one of the Chester drawers dimensions? I think Scott does. It's one foot eight inches deep by two feet, two inches wide and seven inches high. Awesome. What number is the other single room? So we are in. Let's dip out here real quick. This is a single room, 009. And this is also a single room, 010. Let's see if we have other question. Do they have single room dimensions online? Yes. Yes, they do. And also I just want to plug housing.urk.edu. We have a new virtual tour so you can actually walk through the space and measure things yourself. Send in your questions. We're just now joining. Welcome to Urk Home Live 2023. We are in Holcomb Hall. I also want to add that for AC, air conditioning, heat, anything like that, you'll have a unit in your room that you're able to control so you can go down. This is on 80 degrees. That's ridiculous. It's probably for the summer because no one's here. Yeah, that's true. Yeah, but you can control it like that, turn the fan off and on. Where is it? It just came on. I'm not seeing any. Oh, how high can the bed loft? That is a great question. If you just want to raise it to its highest height here, can we get how tall that is real quick? That is one option, which is? Three feet. Three feet. So you can actually also double that. If you put in a fix-it request or a maintenance request, you can get a second one of these and stack it on top, which essentially lofts your bed twice as high, just like a lofted bed. So that would be how many? Six feet high? Yeah. Double that. Any other questions, you guys? When you are asking to measure the single room that is where we are currently, what are you wanting measured? If someone could specify that, we would love to answer it. Yeah. If you're asking for just all the way across, that is? It's 11 feet forward. 11 feet and 4 inches. And then from inside, all the way across, over here is 13 feet, 9 inches. And that's going to vary a little bit, depending on your room and the layout of the room. They are not all exactly the same. The length and width, I think we did just get that. Awesome. Let's measure inside the closet. How deep are these shelves? Because I do know on one side, there is three that are level and two that are slanted for shoes. They are 9 inches deep? 9 inches deep. 2 feet, 3 inches wide. 2 feet, 3 inches wide. Awesome. Beautiful, beautiful. I wish I had more fun facts. More fun facts? Let me think if I have any fun facts. I don't know. I loved Holcomb. I lived in it my freshman year. And I had a great experience. It's also connected to Futural. Yeah. That's why their packages and mail go here. You can't walk from one building into the other without going outside. There is a brief like three feet distance. Futural's fobs can access Holcomb because their mail is in here. But Holcomb's fob cannot access Futural. That's good to know. Closet dimensions please. So we did get those little shelves. Let's see if we can just do maybe the height from underneath the shelf from the bar. 5 feet, 4 inches. And then the shelf above. 1 foot, 1 inch. 1 foot, 1 inch. I'm going to crawl. 3 feet, 7 inches wide. 3 feet, 7 inches. Thank you. How many shower stalls are in the bathroom? In the basement I believe there is three. On the third floor there is six. I think one is currently not working. They may have fixed that this summer though. So hopefully yes. And the nice thing about the showers is when you step out of the shower there's also a little room with a curtain that you can change and before you leave. Shower shoes are always recommended. Always, always, always. The only other thing about the room that I didn't mention already is that I think it's about part of the dogwood neighborhood and I'm saying that correctly which also includes the Nordfluss squad. So if you're hardly dogs or anything RIC related y'all probably work together in groups at some point in time which expands the amount of people that you'll meet. Awesome. Someone asked how can window coverings be hung? I think command hooks. Command hooks, please don't screw anything into the wall. No. Also, there's the, I know that there are like curtains where I forgot what they're called, the bars where they can stick them in between. Yes, like pressure rods. Something like that. Yes, in Holcomb you can do that in a lot of the dorms there's not this tiny little inner shelf so to speak. So command hooks are recommended. What is parking zone for Holcomb? So we do have a very small resident reserve lot right next to Holcomb. It's out the side of the laundry room. Yeah. And then Garland is also super close by. Yeah, so if you have resident reserve pass like I live in the Nordfluss squad by freshman year so a lot of people that live in this area if you have resident reserve you're going to be in Garland. If not, if you get lucky you'll be in that small parking lot you may end up in the Nordfluss squad a lot but those are commonly your three options. It is a few yards away. It is just out the door. We are on the very north side of campus. Yes, any other questions? Sorry, go ahead. The other thing about being on this side of campus so with the Garland garage you also have kind of like a strip of shops or just things that can help so you have your subway, you have a campus bookstore you also have a what we call small mart which is Walmart on campus which if you're looking for something quick such as laundry detergent, toothpaste, anything like that you can go get that from Walmart on campus which is very useful. So you're in a really good spot and you're not too far from central campus so things like the union of the library. Awesome, awesome. Any other questions you guys? I think we might be wrapping it up if there's not anymore. Currently we're in a single room. We also toured a double room and went through the common spaces. Yeah. All of these rooms have these long lights like this too. Sometimes I like to note what the lighting is in each different dorm. I have another question. Are there elevators? Great question. Yes, there is an elevator in Holcomb. It goes all the way from the basement up to the third floor so anywhere you need to go we can definitely walk back that way. Someone said King Reed, get into it. Hi, I don't know who it was. Yeah, so luckily compared to Futural Futural does not have an elevator. Yes. Holcomb does so it's more accessible than I say Futural would be. Absolutely. So does that elevator go all the way to the basement? I think it does, yes. And we can also just point out the trash chute when we walk past there. Again, this is the common space. There are currently people in here. This chair is iconic. Everyone loves that chair. So there are only bedrooms on the other side. There's not on this end. This is where maintenance is. And this is where your laundry, not your laundry, your trash excuse me. This is where the trash chute will go to the upper floors. And if you live in the basement, you just bring it right in here and throw it in. So but if you are on the upper floors, it'll just be like a little door that you open. You throw it down, throw it down here. We recommend not putting cardboard in there. That would be great. Yeah, if you have trash in the trash chute. And here is the elevator. Awesome. So it works like getting a normal elevator but when you get into it and you want to go up, you'll have to use your bop to scan to get to where you're going. If you're coming down, you'll have to use the bop to scan. That's because it helps get you really safe. Safety. I know what you mean. Any other questions you guys before we go? Thank you for joining us. This has been your home live, Holcomb Hall 2023. Yeah. Bye guys.