 Hi everyone, welcome to the 2021 Move-In Prep UR Come Live. My name is Emily Leal, I am the Marketing Intern for University Housing, and today I am joined with Jordan. My name is Jordan Frederick King, and I'm the Assistant Director for Greek Housing here at the University of Arkansas. I am one of the amazing team of people who are helping put on Move-In this year. I'm here to talk to you a little bit about what you need to know to prepare for your arrival later this week. So just for a little bit of background, did you go to school here? I didn't. I actually attended the University of Central Arkansas for my undergrad, and then I got my master's at a small school in Wichita, Kansas. I will be a student this fall as I'm starting my PhD here at the University of Arkansas. So I'm excited for this school year to start just as much as you guys are. Everyone in the chat, feel free to ask any questions that you have, or tell us where you're tuning in from, or just engage. Leave some comments. Yeah, awesome. By now, you all have received plenty of communication via email, or even through the mail of what you need when you arrive here at the University of Arkansas for Move-In. You've all been sent an arrival pass for your car so that you can know exactly where to go. This is kind of a generic one, but yours is going to match all of the wayfinding signs like this one and going to match your specific hall that you're assigned to. So if you're moving in to Reed, it's going to be pink just like this sign. This will be something that you can hang in your car when you move in for your for your move-in time. Flavia says, hey from Bolivia. Oh, hi. So that's incredible. That's awesome. After once you get here and you move in, be sure and follow the wayfinding signs and make sure to follow the maps that are on the UR housing website, the Move-In website. If you type in your hall into Google, it's going to take you a wonky route. So make sure and follow the routes that we provided you online. You're going to follow the signs into your law and the Move-In staff and the division. People will be there to help you get situated. You'll park, you'll go check in, you'll get your keys. You'll let them know if you're here and then you'll go move in all of your staff. We'll have so many volunteers here to assist and help you with Move-In. They'll attack your car, grab your stuff and take it straight up to your room for you. We have dollies and we have carts available depending on the hall to help you. You can always check those out from us with your ID. You can have your student ID or your driver's license. But I also recommend you bring your own. So if your parents or friends or whoever have some dollies left over by chance, I would bring one with you so that you can move your stuff in even quicker. After you're done with moving in, you'll have to come move your car after 30 minutes. All students can go park in lot 56. That information is on the back of your hang tag as well. Parents, you will be able to move and park your car in the Garland garage or the Harmon parking garage. The top levels of those two locations. As long as you're gone by the end of the day, you shouldn't have any problems in those spots. Once we conclude with moving and we're done for the week, you'll be able to go back to your resident parking lot that you're normally supposed to park in for students. We got a question. Yeah. Someone asked, we got two moving tags. We drive smaller vehicles and we'll probably have three cars. What do you suggest we do about the third car? Okay, we recommend that you only bring two cars if possible. That's why we send two hang tags. If by chance you absolutely have to have a third one when you arrive, we'll have some extra hang tags for you that'll look kind of like the generic ones. Our RA staff will be there and they'll mark your name and the location all kind of for you right there and you'll be able to park that way. I definitely recommend trying to get as much as you can into two cars, because our lots are very big, but we got a lot of people moving in all at once. So try and be as concise as you can. And are students allowed to bring their pets with them? I wish you could, but you gotta leave your pets at home. If you have a need for an emotional support animal or a service animal, you can register them with the Center for Educational Access. They have a form on their website. I definitely recommend checking that out if that's something that you need, but you better leave your pets at home. Awesome. When you arrive and after you're done with moving, there's probably gonna be a lot of boxes, a lot of trash to kind of get rid of. Please make note, there's gonna be dumpsters located in all of the lots. So you'll have easy access to throw away all of your trash when you're done moving in. And then there's gonna be a specific spot just for cardboard. So we definitely wanna recycle and make sure we get that in the right location. Take all of that right to that spot. You'll see it, you won't be able to miss it when you move in on your arrival time. We recycle tons and tons and tons of cardboard. Yes, we recycle tons and we appreciate your help in making sure that that happens. I definitely recommend like get a good breakfast, get a good lunch depending on your arrival time, drink plenty of water. It's definitely gonna be a hot day. I mean, you're gonna need it and we just really appreciate you taking the time to prepare and to plan and to be here at your designated arrival time. Being too early sometimes will be a little tough. Being too late, it's a little tough. If you can just plan to get here right at your arrival time, that's the best option. That Goldilocks time, that's what we want right there. Yes. And shoes I think are something I'd recommend too. Not open shoes, open shoes to toes. No, open toe shoes, but closed toe shoes with a really good padding cause you'll be on your feet quite a bit. Yep. Most of our halls do have an elevator that you'll be able to help move your stuff in but some of them don't. So you might be going up some stairs depending at the hall that you're in. So you definitely want to dress comfortably ready to move your stuff when that time comes. We got a question. Someone asked, can we bring siblings to help with moving? Yeah, you can bring whoever's like in your car with you to move in. I definitely recommend bringing some extra help if you want. We try and keep families together and try and go up the elevator together when you can. We have lots of volunteers to help you as well but if you have some siblings or grandma and grandpa or whoever wants to come help you definitely can do that as well. Emily, you moved on campus a couple of years ago. What was your move in experience like? My mom and my dad drove up separately. I rode with my mom and we just split my stuff between the two cars and all of us worked for 30 minutes, worked really hard to move all my boxes, my mini fridge, my mattress topper all into my dorm. And it was a pretty easy process because the hall that I was in, I was on the first floor so I didn't have to lug myself up any stairs but it was a relatively easy process. There were a lot of volunteers and my second year that I lived on campus, I lived in Gregson and I moved in by myself but a lot of people were helping me move my stuff in, all the volunteers so I had a very positive experience. Thank you. Yeah, awesome. So once you're kind of finished with move in and you've moved your cars and you're kind of back you'll be able to kind of explore campus a little bit and I think that'll be awesome as soon as you get all moved in. Our residence halls will be open for you to eat at. There'll be different things you can kind of go check out make sure and go get your student ID on campus when you arrive. You don't already have that. Definitely take advantage of how busy it is and just getting to know campus, getting to know everybody in your residence hall that's definitely a super fun part about moving in. Who do you think will be moving in to campus first? Great question. I think our first group is actually gonna be right here at Reed and Maple West. We have a lot of women who have signed up for sorority recruitment and so they get to kind of move in first so that they're ready to go and prepare for recruitment that's later this week. So when they move in, they have kind of a unique route to go to so all my friends who are moving in to Reed and Maple West make sure and follow the map on your move in website because you'll come up kind of the back way take a service drive and then loop into the lot and it's a little different than Google. So make sure you check that out but I think our friends in Reed and Maple West are gonna move in first. Morgan asked, can families hang out and eat and explore for a bit? Yeah, as soon as you move your car at the end of your move in time, so you'll arrive and you have about 30 minutes to get all your stuff from your car into your residence hall, into your room and then you have to move your cars and we'll be calling you to make sure that you get your cars moved so that we have spaces open for the next folks kind of moving in. Once your cars get moved, you can kind of explore campus however you need to. There's definitely residential dining will be open, the union will be open. We also have a shuttle service, a golf cart shuttle service that will be driving around campus in different kind of loops. So if parents need a ride from the garage to the union, we can definitely make that happen. Just look for those shuttle signs that'll be located throughout campus and you'll just text the number, let them know where you're at and we'll come pick you up. But we definitely, yeah, hang out, get to know campus, enjoy your time with your student while you have it and just see what you evade about. It's more fable, true. Fable's a fun thing. There's a lot of good places to eat. Yes, there's tons of good places to eat, especially along Dixon Street, which is really close to campus, MLK Street has quite a few places as well. There's lots of good options. We're getting quite a few questions. Grant asks, does Maple South have an elevator? Maple South does have an elevator and Maple South will also have big carts that you can use and a few dollies, mostly carts I believe, but I definitely recommend if you have a dolly yourself or some other way to move stuff in, I bring it yourself as well. Someone asked, will I be able to park in my red lot reserved spot post-moving? Post-moving you will be, so that means at the end of the week. So we move in from Wednesday to Saturday and once movement officially ends around 6 p.m. on Saturday, you'll be able to move your car back to your resident reserve lot. I definitely recommend you do that on Saturday so that you can prevent getting a ticket or being in the wrong spot, depending on where you parked. Jordan asks, how soon can I get my parking pass for my car? Yeah, you can get your parking pass for your car now. You just have to go on the parking and transit website and fill in your information and order your pass that way. We don't have physical passes anymore, it's all through your license plate number and just kind of an electronic reader. You can do that at any time, it just won't be active until after movement starts. What you were given in the mail is just your arrival pass that allows you to get to your lot to move in. Someone asked, I may have missed this info. Do the car tags cover the garage parking fee for the day? Yeah, so the arrival passes, it's not for your, it's not necessarily a car pass, it's just to get you to move in and then if you're a student, you need a park in lot 56 or any green lot that's open to any student on campus and then parents can move into the Harman or the Garland Garages, the top three levels and it will cover it for that day until about five o'clock and then the car will have to be moved but that's only for parents and students. So if you're parents, sorry, if you're a student, you need to go to a green lot, lot 56. All right, well, we're caught up on the questions. Awesome. I know that we use the email a lot so can you look at them? What kind of information do you know if they'll be seeing, I know the routes is one thing, they'll see what else will they be getting in their email? Yeah, you'll get an email, just another reminder about the route that you'll need to take when you arrive to campus. You'll get some emails about just reminders for checking and where you need to go. You'll get a reminder about your parking pass about how to purchase one. You'll get just all kinds of different information so make sure you're looking at your email and staying on top of it all this week actually. And can I bring a U-Haul? Oh, that's a great question. No, you cannot bring a U-Haul. You really need to bring everything, all of your stuff needs to fit into two vehicles of some sort. U-Hauls are way too big to fit in our lots and truthfully, there's not, these residence hall rooms are not big enough for the amount of stuff that would fit in a U-Haul so I definitely recommend leaving that at home. If you pull into your lot with a U-Haul, you'll be directed to take it to another parking lot like lot 56 and that's gonna be a long walk with all of your stuff. So I do not recommend that. That also goes for trailers so not even like enclosed U-Hauls, like even trailers you can't have, everything needs to fit into a vehicle. That's a good point about maybe not overpacking too. We've got really all the stores that you would expect in our area between Rogers, Fayetteville, we've got Walmart, we've got Target, we've got a shopping center up in Rogers. You can find what you need here and once you're in the room you'll have a better sense of what you might need. Yeah, absolutely and there's a lot of information on our move-in website about what you should bring and what you could bring. Our York Housing Handbook has a lot of great resources as well but they're right, like you won't really know what you need till you get here so some of those things you're not sure about I definitely recommend waiting and then hitting the Target, hitting Walmart, we've got a lot of options here instead of packing it beforehand. Good thrift stores too. And good thrift stores, it's very true. We got a few questions, someone asked, if I have a Garland student parking pass can I park there on Friday? You can park there at the close of move-in so we have those floors, whatever it is, the levels of the parking garage, we have reserved for move-in for parents specifically so everybody will get to resume their regular parking pass capabilities at the end of move-in which will be Saturday evening which includes the garages, includes your normal resident reserve parking lot. Philip asks, I changed my move-in appointment to a few hours earlier on the same day. When will I get the new arrival pass? You're not gonna get a new one because you were already sent one but if you were given a confirmation you were like good to go to change your arrival time you can still arrive at that time and we'll just get you a new pass when you arrive or we'll mark yours off a little differently. We definitely have that information so we know you're coming but we're not gonna issue a new pass at this time. Jamie asks, if our move-in time is at 245 what time will we have to pay to park in Garland? I'm not sure I know how to answer that question. Can you repeat the question one more time? If our move-in time is at 245 what time will we have to pay to park in Garland? Well, if you're a parent then you won't have to pay unless you're staying overnight in that parking deck area. But that's only for parents. Once again, if you're a student you'll arrive, you'll move in, and then you will have to go to a green lot which is lot 56 is the biggest one but any green lot on campus you'll be able to park in and the Garland garage for the duration of move-in is only for parents and students during the eight to five window. Paying overnight is an option but you'd have to move by the next day so that we're open for the next group of parents to arrive. Someone asks, when specifically does designated parking begin? Yeah, so that starts at the conclusion of move-in around five to six. Usually by the time the lot's closed so if everybody gets here and they get moved in and we run on time you'll know that it's okay to move your car back because you'll get a notice from your RA in your hall and the barricades that are in the lot will be lifted. So once the barricades are gone and you can actually move into the lot with your car that's how you know it's ready. From tomorrow until Saturday there will be barricades that won't allow you to move into that lot until you're actually moving in. Jennifer asks, if a late move-in time do parents still have to be out of the garage at five? If so, where can parents park after five? Yeah, I think they have to be out. I believe five o'clock is the time they need to be out. After five, parking does change a little bit around here. So you'll want to go to parking.ur.edu to look for parking that it's official university parking and they can give you the rules on that. Really, all that housing is involved in is red lots which are residential reserve lots and those are the only real no-nos otherwise it follows the general rules. Yep, absolutely. Someone asked, what are the items that you get in your dormitory and what are the items that we might need to buy for our rooms after moving in? Yeah, that's a really great question. I definitely recommend looking at our UARC move-in website. It's move-in.urc.edu and then go to your specific hall and there's some pictures for some of them where you can see what a room setup looks like. All of our residence halls are a little bit different. In general, there's usually some kind of storage for your clothing, whether that be in a dresser or in a closet. Sometimes there's both. Usually there's one or the other. There's a bed. A twin XL is always a great option to make sure that you have sheets that match that. And there's usually a desk and a chair as well. And often a lockable drawer. Yeah, some things that you might need, it definitely depends on the hall because some of your residence halls have community bathrooms, so you might need a good shower caddy to put all your stuff in. The shoes, the shower shoes. Shower shoes, some good cookpops for that. Some of you will just share a bathroom with one person or two people or three people, so that might look a little different for you. It's whatever you're most comfortable with. Some of you might be renting a microfridge, so that would be something that I definitely recommend that includes a microwave in your little miniature fridge. That's always nice to have for snacks and things of that nature. Bedding, what? Bedding. Bedding, yep, you need bedding. Mattress topper. Cheats, mattress topper, towels, maybe. I remember having a good trunk that could fit under my bed so that I could lock it up with my important things. I don't remember ever feeling the need to do that, but that was nice to have at the time. A good set of a bolt plastic bowl and plates if you do eat in your room. It's really whatever you need to feel comfortable, but again, all that resources are on our website and the housing handbook that is on the UR housing website has some great resources of things to bring and things not to bring. Oh, great, well, we're caught up on the questions. Great questions, yeah, good deal. Anything else you feel like we need to share with these folks before they arrive here in a day or two? I don't know, we're really excited to have you. I hope you're excited to come. We're really excited and ready to get you all here so we can start the year. My best advice right now is to just be as prepared as you can be, make sure you tag all of the stuff in your car, maybe with a sticky note that says what hall and what room you're going to so that your volunteers know exactly where to take it and you know what you have. I definitely recommend trying to be here right on time. We have a lot of people moving in so it's helpful if you come right as soon as your appointment is, your arrival time, try not to be too early, try not to be late, that really keeps us on schedule so that's my best advice right now. And if we have bad weather, we'll let him know. Yeah, if we have bad weather, which Arkansas weather can be a little goofy sometimes so if there is bad weather, make sure to check out our social media sites. That's where we'll be delivering that information of what might happen. If it is any kind of inclement weather, we might help move in, we might slow it down. You will always still be able to do what you need to do and move in if you need to but our staff will kind of wait until it becomes safe again for us to help. But all that information will be communicated through our social media. Before we sign off, we have a couple more questions. Tamara asks, when did you say you will get an email to buy a parking pass? The information for the parking passes is on the Transant Parking website. You can purchase a pass now, it's live and ready to go. You'll get an email later this week with a reminder to do that. You definitely wanna make sure you have your parking pass situation secured prior to Saturday because that's when the lots go back to normal and you'll wanna make sure that you're not gonna get ticketed and that you're parking in the right spot. But you can go on the website, the Transant website and purchase your pass now if you'd like. And Mel asks, is there a check-in location at each hall? Yeah, there is. So when you pull into your specific parking lot, there's gonna be somebody greeting you right at the beginning and they'll kind of lead the way. Each of our parking lots have kind of a different route, a different kind of way to go, but they'll general guide you to a parking spot and then they'll point you in the direction of a key tent. They're all kind of in different spots at each hall and then that's where you'll check in, get your key and then move in from there. And someone asks, the campus ID office will be open on Saturday for out-of-state students to pick up their ID for move-in, right? Those exact hours, yeah, for those exact hours, be sure and go to the campus ID website. The best way to find anything is to Google it and go UARC, UARK and then whatever you're looking for. So UARC Student ID and then it'll probably lead you right to the Student ID campus office. I do that all the time, Google that way. We're getting a lot of questions about IDs. People are asking, do we pick up our student ID upon check-in or do we need to get the student ID prior to move-in? You don't have to have it prior to move-in. You'll need your driver's license to be able to check out a dolly or a cart and to get your key to check-in. You can get your student ID at any time after that if you need to. It's not a requirement, but it's nice to have it. All right, well, do you wanna sign us off? Awesome, well, thank you for all your great questions. We are so excited to have you. I can't wait to see you later this week. If you have any other questions, feel free to check out our website or social media or send us an email as well. How do they send us an email? At housing.urk.edu. All right, awesome, bye.