 Good morning, or afternoon afternoon now. Thanks for joining us today. So we're gonna be touring let's and Ripley Hall right now We were just outside just wanting to show y'all a little bit about what's around here. So over here We're on the north side of the building So right here you're gonna have the hyper is down from you the volleyball gymnastics Facility and you're gonna have the nice football stadium. That's currently being Rent-a-vated. Yes, there it is right there. Where's your back stadium? They're gonna have the jumbo Tron which will soon be here and then they're gonna have some box seedings in there And then you'll take this sidewalk up and you'll be right in the center of campus Which is where all of your classes will be you'll also have the rough dining call Which is where this tree is and first we see it because we are on it. What are we looking at right there behind us? That's that's gonna be Gregson Hall. That's an upper-class room or upperclassmen dorm And then where the tree is gonna be the broth cafeteria. That's where you'll go to eat all of your meals You'll just swipe and you can go in and unlimited food of anything you want Just make sure to get the ice cream on your way out and then we're gonna have Humphries just that one right up there Next to it that looks the exact same is gonna be Yocum Hall. Yocum and Humphries. Now, where did you last? I lived in Yocum, which is right up there. I can actually see my dorm room for here. I love it I love living on campus, you know being right here on the center of campus is the best. You're close to everything It's super nice. It's convenient. You know, you can look for your classes Five ten minutes before they start and get there right on time. So sure. Sure. Well, um, let's look at the inside Yes, we'll go inside because it's very nice. Yeah, I guess we should point out that is you can and droke down on the other side and these two halls are oftentimes Combined together and what it's sometimes referred to as Badger BGDR. Is that right? BGDR. BGDR. BGDR. BGDR. You can and droke. Glad to know. This is just gonna be like a little living area You will have to have a fob, not with that door that we just walked through, the next door that we're about to walk to You'll have to have a fob with entering. So if any of your friends ever come, make sure you come down here and grab them This is a desk that you won't be getting your mail here. You'll be going to your packages Yes. You'll go over to Buchanan Drug. Your big packages will go to Buchanan Drug And we'll actually show you your mail room right now So it's just in that main door right here is going to be your mail So how the mail system set up on campus you and your roommate will actually share a mailbox You'll get an email saying what mailbox it is and your code for the mailbox So you should come in and put in your code and then you can open it up and get your mail right there And what can you tell us? Can you tell us a little bit about this particular hall? Do you know when it was it was built in 1954 and it's one of the oldest storms on campus? Actually, it was named after two men one of them who was a physics teacher who became the dean of men and then the other one which was If he was the dean of Fulbright, I want to say okay. Okay. We want to say no good for you. We'll check that out later That information how many people live here a hundred and one people live here and it's a co-ed dorm Okay, it's gonna be three floors. So right now. We're on the first floor. It's called floor one, but it's actually kind of Yeah, it's actually for two. So we're on the middle Because there's one more lower and above us and there's one below us which is where we're about to get to Okay, let's go down to the heart of Gladson Ripley Yeah, and then that's just outside you can see the stadium from there And then this is going to be the bottom floor which is G which is technically floor one Ground floor So we're going to show you a bedroom today We're going to show you the bathrooms if you have any questions at all Please just type in the comment box and we'll answer all of them there couple people watching right now So I'll ask where are you from? If you're coming here this fall, we'd love to know where you're coming from Yeah I'm going to show you the kitchen. It's gonna be the first stop. So this is a good place to go if you're kind of sick of the You get to like them all. Thank you But you're kind of sick of just going to breath all the time. Sometimes it's nice that make some cookies or make some soup So they have all the pots and pans that you need all you have to do is go up to the desk and check them out Which is going to actually be on the big cannon drove side and then There's microwave and a stove top and you also have an ice machine as well And if you do much cooking in the residence hall when you live there I cooked pizza and I cooked sugar cookies sugar cookies. Okay. Sometimes I would eat the dough before I Actually That's always the temptation. It's always a temptation. It's so good And now I'll show you the laundry room. There is some recycling out here recycling bags to be used Yeah, we're very ego-friendly here on campus Sorry, I can saw the natural states is right there. I'll just catch another little thing. They had built Welcome to natural state So this is our laundry room. We're gonna have three washers We have four dryers and right here is gonna be a folding table in case you ever need to pull anything There's also a sink behind huge Can't really say but if you want to hand wash things you can do that as well Tell us how the laundry works here. Do I need to bring money? No, so the laundry is included in your fees You know how in the house in the house. It's not student. It's not student. It's housing fees So you don't have to put in quarters or do anything and everything's right here And we have this system called laundry alert, which is what these signs are if you don't know what I'm gonna remember You're gonna not gonna remember me talking about this So basically what this is is you'll use your phone and on the laundry machine is this QR code So you're gonna scan that with your phone and you're gonna say that you are using this machine And it will let you know through your phone when it's gonna be done And so come down here move into the dryer and do the same exact process all over again You can also download the app on your phone or you can get on to the website on your computer And it will tell you whenever there's a washer or a dryer open So something good to definitely use up and like I said, it's gonna be right here on this wall You ever forget it. Yeah That way you don't have to come down and say oh, no everything's already full There's not really space you can check it from your phone. They're from the desktop And now send into those common areas here, so we've got two common areas right here, but we'll go into this one first Oh Of course, this is what we all live for here in college. It's a new phone table you know paddles from Buchanan drugside their office over there because I don't have an office here It's the same area where you don't go and pick up packages Rent paddles in the ball from there. You just leave your student ID or try not when you're done So you can always come here and write your friends come hang out There's also two desks in the back So if you want to get out of your room and just study definitely come over there Sure, absolutely One of the two kind of common spaces you have here on the ground floor and this is going to be the other ground Ignore the white bags over here Exactly those are fresh towels and other things that we've got going so we have big big machines, of course if you ever just need a snack That's gonna have to that's not what they're like Okay, right there Just entering your own cash your own card for Apple pay you can get Any snacks you want any drinks that you wanted and then we just of course has some couches right here Just hang out the last there's a flat screen TV watch the movies over there It's a good place just to Come down and unwind and just hang out with your friends and get to know them a little bit more Cuz you're gonna be living with all new people. This is completely different It's definitely a step out of your comfort zone, but it's a really good. I promise And you lived in one of these community style residence halls in Yes, and actually like that's who all of my best friends are this past weekend I actually went and got to visit all of them. It was like one big hurrah, and I loved it So make the most memories you can keep your door open. Let people just come in introduce yourself and Just make memories. Don't don't turtle up. Don't turtle up. No do not turtle up This is why they're like not those heavy doors and they can just open and stay open. Gotcha. So now we'll go check out the bathroom I think and then check out one of the bedrooms and then if you have any questions about Measurements in the bedroom feel free to ask us. Yeah Right here's gonna be a trash shoot on every single floor There's gonna be a door-level trash shoot basically you'll just walk in throw your trash down there And they will eventually come down here into this. There's a trash can in here. I hope it doesn't Doesn't smell and so we'll just go down and into this trash can so you don't have to worry about putting it anywhere Just make sure it goes in the trash. You don't put in the bathrooms It's one thing to get mad about because we tried to do that Live and learn live and learn. Okay We're going to the men's restroom. It's restroom. So we're gonna have three sinks. We're gonna have some toilets over here Then these are the showers right here. We just have two And it's just a little square But you don't need anything bigger. I promise you Has a little shelf right here where you can put your shampoo on like this person did right here You can use these walls up here to put your stuff on And I believe there's hooks on the outside Hang your towels and your towel wrap on there. Do you have any thoughts on like bathroom? Atticent when you're sharing a space. Do you do you wear the shoes or not? Okay, please There's one thing you get from this video pair of shower shoes Okay, it gets it can get pretty disgusting bathrooms are cleaned every single day Which is nice because you don't have to do anything Wear shower shoes get a shower caddy. It's easier to carry all of your stuff on here instead of all of it in your hand Wear a robe, of course And yeah, it's pretty much just like common courtesy lessons learned because you are a rising junior this year, right? Rising juniors should be sophomore kind of skipped a year But we're gonna get to this last one actually and what is it you study my advertising and public relations Which is a journalism degree here. Okay, so I'm getting the best of both worlds. I can do two different things with one degree So this is gonna be our typical room All the furniture is movable. You have your bed right here, of course You're gonna have a desk with a chair I can do it. Give me a second way and back on you here So now what did you do? I took my chair off and you can use it as a little rocker Okay, so if you went into more space like I said leave your door open let everyone come in here You can sit on your bed two friends can sit right there two friends can sit with one chair very nice very nice and Yes, you should point out also these beds are all lofty. Yes, they're all lofty bowl You can put in a maintenance quest before you get here You just go to housing dot you arc dot edu slash fix it and put in a maintenance request And they can move it to however tall you want mine was probably about Right here. That's pretty high. That's the highest I had a different my bed was a little bit different because I lived in Yocapal Okay, but I put extra shelves underneath I put my humidifier underneath because I have asthma The trash can so let's mention also your environmental controls here because you have a Dedicated wall unit. Yes, you can use for your air conditioning, which is nice. Did you have complete control of that? Just adjust it up or down. It's pretty super easy to use. It says fan speed and timer So just use that and then I'll show you the we have a fan up here too. I just want to point out You're showing us the wardrobe this is our wardrobe we're gonna have a mirror as well So we're gonna have some shelves on top where I put like my hats some t-shirts just whatever you can put it there and you're gonna have some Hangers right here where you can hang stuff on and then you put your shoes on there if you want If not something I would suggest to bring would be like a shoe rack and loft your bed and actually put your shoe rack Underneath your bed, or you can just like get a big Rubber rubber made container and just kind of put it all in there. That's how you work Do we have this area? Right here this dress of drawers unit, they're all separate every one of these is separate So this one's just gonna be some basic drawers that you can put stuff in Super nice furniture. This is all fairly new and then right here So this is just gonna be like a little nightstand you can put that there if you want it You can actually when you shut it you can lock it Like this and turn it and it's locked and you can play a little key or lock it there So if you had any valuables that you didn't like to Get taken even though. I don't know why people would come in if you just locked your door But in case you want extra protection just lock that right there. There you go. Yeah, and it's gonna be same thing over here I'll show you the back of the door You're gonna have some racks right here to put your towels on And then right here. It's just gonna be like Procedures common sense that to do in a tornado. We had to take shelter last year. You have to know what to do And there's a little people right here. It's like a hotel. You see it's coming I'm gonna point out the cable system too. Just because we have questions about that. We recently upgraded to digital cable You'll get a remote whenever you come in We ask that you bring your own battery. It's a double. I think it's a double a in there Yeah Let's double check. Let's check You'll have all the HBO's and It'll be a digital cable that you can just hook up to your TV and watch and triple AAA AAA AAA batteries And then you'll also they have DVR that is available It doesn't come standard, but you can always pay extra to get DVR capabilities. Yeah, okay. Well Is there any questions from anyone who's watching I see that there's a few people watching so if Molly and I can answer those questions for you We sure would like to yeah You can always find that measurement at housing. You are dot edu You can go there click on the dorm that you'll be living in campus communities is what we call it on the navigation Halls look at the hall And you can click on that and they'll give you all the dimensions of everything the dimension of the bed the dimension of the room desk Wardrobe bed table all of it Fantastic, well, let me do one more quick pan of the room and then we'll probably go ahead and sign off Thank you, everyone. We're excited that you're coming this fall. Yeah So fun place to be just make the best of it go to class And do your best that's all you can do. It's different than high school. Don't think it's high school You're gonna have to put in some effort. I promise. It's really hard, but you can do it. It's not that difficult Thanks Rose for about requesting Mattresses all right. Well, thank you very much. We're gonna go ahead and sign off your waves out See y'all tomorrow morning for the next tour at 10 a.m