 My name is Abigail. I'm one of the conference ambassadors here for the University of Arkansas. I am also one of the RAs that will be working here in Holcomb in the fall. So nice to meet you guys. Before we get started I want to introduce our cameraman. Yeah. Hi y'all. My name is Henry. I'm gonna be the cameraman for today. So if you have any questions feel free to drop them in the chat. I'll be sure to ask them or try and answer them and let us know where you're tuning in from, like, City and State. But for now what's up next? Cool. All right. So before we head in we're gonna go ahead and take a look at the street. So behind me was the entrance to Holcomb. Behind me now is big building right here. This is Pat Walker. That's where you can go if you're not feeling well. We have a CAPS which is our counseling service. We have a women's clinic in there. We have many cool clinics in there that you should definitely check it out. Whenever you're feeling sick they are open from 8 in the morning to 5 in the afternoon. So that is right across the street for you which is really cool. And then up over there up the stairs we have Morgan Hall which is where our dining hall will be which is called Full Bright Dining Hall. It's nice it's just right across the street for you to head and go get breakfast, lunch or dinner. And then you can't see it right now but right next to this building we have Futral. It is the connecting dorm to this. It's an all girls dorm. You do not have access to that building but it's a good reference point to know where that building is. And then over there you can see the big University of Arkansas sign. That is the emissions building. If you have any questions about emissions the financial office is in there. That is there for you. So Holcomb is based in the center-ish part of campus so you do have a lot of very close buildings that you can go to and then our Walmart which we like to call our small mart is at the end of Garland Street which is just like a five minute walk. So I definitely think Holcomb has been put in a good position. But we will go ahead and go inside and show the inside of the building. Awesome. It's a nice and convenient location. Yes. When you get into the building you will have this little thing we like to call a thawb. You will scan that on a little gray pad that's outside the door and that will let you into the building. Have your keys on with you at all times because if you get locked out we really can't help you. We'll have to call the R.A.M. to make sure that you can. But this is our friend desk area. This is where you will come pick up packages. Lockers. These lockers here is where you will get any card mail. Sometimes Amazon packages. Small ones will fit in there. You will pick those up there. Any big packages you order you order will be picked will be picked up here at the front desk. Here you can also check out ping pong table and pool equipment which we'll go see downstairs where that's located. And then any kitchen equipment you would like to use as well you can purchase you cannot purchase. You can check out from here all you need is your student ID. There are hours that this desk is opened. They may change but if not it should be from 8 in the morning until 10 at night. So that is when this is open. There will always be an R.A. or a desk admin here available to help you. If not you can give the R.A.M. duty call and they will help you out with that. Gotcha. What's up next? We're going to go check out one of the study areas on the first floor. Gotcha. So speaking of studying what are you studying? So I'm an international and global studies major which is kind of cool because Holcomb is considered the international one and I also have a my name is Spanish. So I'm really looking forward to start taking those classes in the fall. That's pretty cool. Let us know y'all what your majors what you're playing on your majors to be and what you're playing on. Study. So this is the study room on the first floor of Holcomb. There it's it's pretty big. A lot of presidents like to hang out here. Sometimes your residential assistants or R.A.s will be holding any programs in here. That is an office so that room will always be closed but everything else is available for you to use 24 hours. You just need your fob to be able to key in this room and then you're welcome to stay in here as long as you would like. Gotcha. So this is the first kitchen area. This is the first kitchen. This one is bigger than the second one that we're going to see. This is available to you as well 24 hours and if again if you would need anything you can ask the front desk and they should have it for you. But other than that just make sure to clean it up do it as you found it. Even if you find it dirty if you could please clean it up afterwards that would be a huge help for not only your R.A.s but also the ISA team as well. Yeah it's about it. Gotcha. The kitchen if you do bring any food make sure to label it. Residents are really good about leaving it alone but it is always good to label it just in case. This is what we call our piano room because our piano is in here. The piano you're more is available to all residents to use. It's nice for the R.A.'s working desk to hear the residents playing the piano while we're working so we'd love to hear you play. Now we're going to move into our grip room. So this is where a lot of programs are most the majority of programs are going to be held in this room. One of the most famous programs Holcomb is known for is the Global Series. It's a program that's done once a month and it goes over each month it's over a different culture. I remember my freshman year I attended the Japan one and I believe it was a Greece one I think. They're really cool because they bring different cultures in from all over the world and then residents themselves will perform any cultural dances. There could be traditional food. There will be games. It's something really cool to check out and I think that's one of the coolest parts of being in the international dorm is you get to see so many different cultures. Me personally I love learning about different cultures so I'm super excited. I will do my best to attend all the global series events so I hope to see you guys there because that is a really cool experience. But not only that but your R.A. may hold their programs in here. I came to a finger painting program one time. They had a make your own dessert program one time in here so it's definitely something to keep a lookout your R.A. or there will be posters will be put around the building for you to work at. Gotcha and Hunter I just saw your question about showing a single room I believe will only be showing one room where there's two roommates but that'll be towards the towards the end of this live stream. It'll be the same size but it'll just be one bed missing. International student and you have any questions about financial aid simply getting some help you can come to the office located in Hong Kong and they will be able to answer any of your questions you are also more than welcome to call them and I'm sure you can email them as well and they will help you out with any community. Gotcha. We're going to go ahead and head downstairs to the first door. So what grade are you in again? So I'm a sophomore here at the University of Arkansas. I am a little bit ahead of my sophomore so I'll be a junior in this grade. I'm excited for graduating early. Yeah always nice. So this is our laundry room. We have an app that we'll be using it's called Speed Queen. Speed Queen. It is a new system that we have put in place where basically you will have two washes per week. There will be more information released about that but that is an app that you will download. I believe you will scan the washing machine in order to get it started. So just keep in mind that when you do laundry you only have two per week so that's something to look out for. So we have four washers and four dryers. We only have three residential floors so there might be an issue. You might run into some time sometimes when you can't find an available washer. You can simply just see not a grouping in your floor asking hey if someone has laundry come get it. If not if you or the person in the laundry in here please make sure to send a alarm and come pick it up on time because there are a lot of residents here that need to wash their clothes. Don't want to don't want to be one of those guys right who just leaves their laundry in for two hours. Yeah just be mindful of it. Also an ice machine. Yeah so that is available to you a lot of residents use it so it tends to break down sometimes but they always do their best to keep that up and running especially the first half of the semester gets really really hot. So definitely have your water bottle on you fill it up with ice, put it in water and then it'll be nice and cool for your sit-in. Sounds good. Where to next? We're going to go ahead and look at our other hangout areas we have and this is where our other kitchen will be located as well. Gotcha. We have our multiple hangout areas in Pokemon so there isn't some you will always turn the corner and see the couch or little study room. All the gathering areas. Yes so this is the game room that you can plug in your Nintendo Switch your Wii your PlayStation anything like that you can plug into that TV. You have a lot of sitting area to bring your friends. I know a lot of RAs will like to do gaming programs. I might do a few gaming programs it's definitely something to keep an eye out for if you are one of my residents or even if you are not you're more than welcome to come join. This is our ping pong and pool table. You can get anything that you need to rent or to use you can check out at the front desk if you have your own equipment you're more than welcome to bring that as well. Just make sure to take it with you once you're done. So this is our other kitchen I like to think of this one as the baby kitchen however this one will be used more just because it does have a stove an oven and a microwave. Again everything in here is available to you if you do need any cooking equipment you can check that out at the front desk. Again if you leave any containers in here any food in the fridge make sure to label it. Residents are good about leaving food alone especially a lot of residents have allergy so they don't want to eat something they don't know has anything in and then there's a cool little window looking out into the gaming room if you want to click with your friends while you watch the movie. Oh nice um but yeah we'll go ahead and go back upstairs and we're going to go ahead and take a look at one of our double space rooms. Gotcha. So I think you mentioned you're going to be an RA next year in Holcomb could you explain kind of what an RA does? Yeah so each floor has one residential assistant which is what RA stands for. They are kind of in charge of the floor they will live on your floor and basically what we do is you will have to sign a roommate agreement if you have a roommate we will send you any information about winter closing or when you move out in the spring. Also y'all we may lose a little bit of connection here so just bear with us if we do that's all I continue. So they are here we are basically here to help you if you're not feeling good you can always come to your RA they will help you out you will see multiple RA's throughout the building so you're more than welcome to read your RA or any other RA that you feel welcome. I will have I always have an open door policy with my residence so um my door will always be open for residence just shoot me a text and then I will be more than welcome to help you out if I'm not in classes or taking an exam but that is basically what an RA does um there is one community RA which is one you will see more of because they will be active in the group group me they will be sending out information about programs um you'll be hearing about them for like any maintenance of the dorm any housekeeping rules and then um you may have a neighborhood RA who will be in charge of three buildings so the neighborhoods RA's cover Holcomb future and the quad so I don't think we will have any in Holcomb so you will mostly see community RA so that is basically what an RA will do also someone said you're doing a great job oh yeah yeah fans so this is um this is what community bathroom looks like they look the same on all floors um so it's not much different it is really really nice I don't know why but every time I've gone to a a um wedding this is the kind of bathroom that I've seen oh yeah that's the kind of that's the kind of fun fact wedding bathrooms yeah so a lot of mirrors look for the ladies a lot of cute mirror pictures here but we have multiple stalls we have multiple showers um you never really run into any shower issues just because there are multiple I never ran into issues and I lived in futural and we only had four showers so there are four showers here so hopefully you won't run into any issues but there are two bathrooms they look exactly the same one's just at the end of the hallway for the residents that was at the end of the hallway um this bathroom is cleaned every single day there is a certain time the ISA team will come through um we will put up signs around what time they come they're just clean every day except on the weekends um our ISA staff does not work on the weekends so it might get a little icky but it will be clean first thing Monday morning gotcha oh yep so each floor has two study rooms um and then so we have this is one of the study rooms and then another one was down there um but we're going to go look at one of the common spaces on this floor yeah and uh I just got a question in Riley asked do you know when we'll be doing the quads we'll be doing it uh next week on Wednesday study rooms slash hangout area um a lot of residents like to come do their homework here you can pull this table out into the middle and then sit down on the floor hang out and um talk study together if you take an exam um you can put up a sign that says I'm taking an exam just as soon as you finish your exam please check outside so other residents can come in here and study but it has a nice little view of garland um if you want to take a break you can swash there's pat walker pat walker yep so this is there should be at least one size of these rooms on each floor currently on the third floor right now gotcha um so now we will look at what everyone's been waiting for I was just thinking that so this is what a typical room looks like if you live in a single room it is the same thing except a tiny bit smaller and there's only so you have a bed a dresser a nightstand a desk and then you have a cool little walking closet it's not very big but it's not there's some shelves in there I didn't even know that so just know so you can get boxes and put your clothes in there as well um and there also comes with a mirror so you don't have to bring a mirror but um this is everything that will be included this one as well this is another closet the same thing shelves are on this side so there are two closets per room um for the beds I know the big question is what size they are they are a twin XL so if you have a mattress topper which I highly recommend you bring um I went my first semester with that one and I regretted it very much um but a mattress topper and the twin um bed the bed if you buy twin excel sheets they will fit but they might just become undone a few times so if you don't mind tucking the sheets back in the twin excel will be fine if you like having a little bit looser sheet and you don't want to have to worry about it's all good if you don't want to have to worry about um how do you constantly tuck your sheets in you can get a full size sheet and then it'll be loose but you don't have to worry about having to tuck your sheets in a lot so that's something I would definitely look at you can't lock these beds um you can raise it up up to here or you can put in an maintenance request which I believe the link is fix it um if you google uh I don't remember the exact link but it's uh like thick like fixic.york.edu um if you google that um then that'll be uh where you can request to have your bed lofted usually what I do I usually type in you are fix it and then I click on the first link and there's a big like green box that says you are fix it click on it it'll take you straight to the link um but if you would like to if you would like to raise your bed even higher that is what you will have to put in maintenance request for if you just want to raise it up to here I was able to do it on my own you can also put in a maintenance request for that if you do not want to go through that but these beds are loftable all the furniture you can move except your closet because it is built in um but yeah you can be creative you can decorate your room as much as you want um I would use command strips I would avoid nails just because if you do make any holes in the wall you'll be charged for them so um I would use command strips I have found that the velcro command strips work really really well um just because once I take because I'm constantly moving um I can keep the velcro on for example my calendar I have had to study velcro for a year I just put a new one on the wall so I think the velcro one's the other way to go um but yeah if you guys have any questions about the room please leave them below and we will read them out yeah um do one last uh look around see if anyone has any any questions so while we're waiting for questions could you talk a little bit about uh the kind of the pick one initiative for our viewers yeah so all incoming freshmen if you have not received an email you will soon um you will receive an email from um I don't remember her name but someone will send you an email about something called pick one and pick one is an opportunity for a freshman to get involved on campus um when I was a freshman I was involved in the u rec pick one so it was um I was doing mainly the swimming and the mountain biking that's what I focused on but there was also tennis um there was soccer hiking anything canoeing anything like that was available for the u rec um the u rec portion of the pick one from some other ones that I remember I do know we had some student leadership ones we if you are in greek life there is a greek life pick one um that's let we do have a few separate athletic ones um we have an interneural one which if you like doing interneural sports that is available as well there are just so many different off uh different pick ones that you can register so when you open the email it will let you pick three so the one that you really really want to do the most is the one I would put as one and then the second one would be other ones you would like to do but it's not like one that you would die if you can't do um it is a really cool opportunity to get involved in campus I met a few of my friends through um pick one when we did the hyper tour um if you do decide to do the u rec one you have a hyper tour you can go like a pool which is really really big I was a swimmer so I love the pool area um you can look at the gym the basketball courts um the racket the racket courts which were the racket ball courts which are really cool um to have some ping pong tables down there it's really cool you should definitely even if you don't register for the uh the u rec pick one definitely go walk around the hyper because it is really big and it is a really cool facility um that about covers um that you want to go overhead and go over eight yeah I'll do that in a little bit we just got a question about uh the width of the space between the closet so I'm guessing like this area right here and do you have something to yeah I guess you can just use your hand and it's the width between so I'm guessing it's this this white space right here okay so one foot and nine inches between the space and feel free all to ask us any questions um you know if you want to know more about the measurements of a room uh feel free feel free to ask us which will be updated soon on our housing website um there some of them are a little bit incorrect but they will be updated very very soon with the correct measurements um so just keep an eye out for that yeah you want me to talk about a week yes all right do you think I should hold it or do you think you should let me try and hold it okay if it goes wrong well we will fix it don't push that button all right yeah yeah all right but um so a week is a series of programs that start a week before a week before classes so you'll probably be moving in you know about a week a week and a half before classes start so you have this uh period of time where you don't have classes and you get to have fun and spend time with your friends um and so there's a series of programs that go on during that entire week and you'll be getting a schedule um it'll probably be taped up on your front door when you arrive um about the different programs that you can go to so there may be something as simple wide gay a bingo night or moving night um but we also have programs that we do every year one of them is called chocolate wasted where you get free chocolate which we all love um but you're also learning about um about side effects of alcohol um and kind of like a healthy education about that there's also I'm not sure if we're doing it this year but we're doing uh what we've done in the past is called taste of fable where we have uh all all these restaurants around fable uh come to the greek theater and they give out free samples essentially and there's just like a line of food trucks that all students can just pick up food at so it's a great time to um hang out with your friends and have something to do and also meet people so I would definitely recommend um while you're here um when you first move in to look at the events that you want to go to and go with your friends this is a great time yeah cool awesome you did it I redeemed myself but all right we'll um we'll wait a few more minutes to see if anyone has any um like lasting questions but uh is there any advice that you would give to incoming freshmen I would say get involved I know a lot of people are very intimidated I know it's very intimidating come coming to um campus I know for a lot of students this may be the first time you're out on your own as it was for me so I definitely went my homesickness didn't end until March um so it's totally okay if you come into your sophomore year and you're still homesick um but being involved will help you a lot because somewhere you get involved the more people that you meet and when you are able to meet more people and make more connections with um other kids your age are going through the same thing it will make everything so much easier um honestly my friends didn't help me if I was not involved as much as I was I probably my homesick would probably hope sickness would probably still be going on right now um but I was involved in league hogs um which you are if you are involved in that I'm involved in the league more program which is available to upperclassmen so I will probably see you around um but the hogs was the best way for me to get involved I attended a lot of programs um I volunteer a lot to help out with programs it was just one of the easiest and funnest ways to get involved but also simply attending any programs your r.a. does any programs your the holcomb and future hold us together um any programs held by university programs or the university itself are also really cool to attend um so just look out follow everyone there's everyone has a social media so just follow them on instagram and you will get updates about any programs going on um follow pat walker if that is something you are interested in we have our caps counseling I previously went through the caps counseling and it is really good um I would highly recommend if that's something that you would like some more help on when you get here you're more than welcome to come find me your r.a. and maybe we'll be happy to help you with that as well um but there are so many opportunities on campus to get involved um and just make sure to take time to yourself that is a big thing um if you're not a big workout person go paint in front of the old main I have a lot of friends that would go read in front of old main um just step outside the dorm and step away from your classes and definitely take time to yourself that is very important because um if you which I made this mistake it was for the fall of my freshman year is I didn't take time to myself and I was very very stressed out and by the end of it when I finished I just realized that I had so much stress that most of my winter break was de-stressing and when I started in the winter I was able to apply the self-care procedures or self-care tips that I had picked up along the way so definitely find ways to get involved and make sure to put yourself first there's nothing wrong with putting yourself first that is the biggest advice that I can give anyone just because that is the biggest advice that I have taken away um awesome yeah oh gosh thank you so much for sharing and for giving us the tour and I think that's all all the questions that we had so um yeah you can go ahead and sign us off cool so it was really nice to find to meet y'all but I hope to meet y'all soon I will see you guys in August because a lot of you guys will be living here um I will be on the third floor if you ever need me you're more than welcome to come knock on my door I have the big residence assistant sign on my door you're more than welcome to come and reach me whenever um but I'm excited to see y'all in August awesome