 Hi everyone, my name is Hope. I'm a comments ambassador for the University of Arkansas And I will be giving you guys this tour of Reed Hall today. You just go ahead and put the camera around. Yeah Yeah, does it look okay? Oh This way perfect. Sorry. I'll have it on a thing. You got it perfect My name is Henry. I'll be the cameraman for today. I'll be monitoring a chat So if you have any questions for hope I'll be sure to read them out to her and yeah, and also let us know where you're tuning in from like city and state But what is it first hope? I'm just gonna talk about the doors real quick right outside is the main parking lot of Reed There is a few other parking lots along the side of campus that you can use if you have resident reserved But this is the one that's right outside the building And then these are the doors how you access the building is through a key fob And this fob will only get you in to this building. Yeah, so you don't have to worry about anybody else coming in Okay, all right, so we're gonna head towards the front desk This is reads from desk This is where you're gonna get all your mail all your packages you can check out supplies They have a really nice kitchen that you can like cooking and bacon and everything like that You can check out equipment from there and it's really nice There'll be an RA here till about 10 p.m. Most days Mm-hmm, and also they have this very cool RA on duty sign that will just tell you who's on duty in your building For the day. Gotcha So if we had this way we can head it to one of the common areas it is known as the blue room for a very obvious reason It is blue. Wow very creative. Yes Right now we are preparing for a move-in to start so it's a little bit It's not put together, but by the time move-in happens. It will be a okay ready to go We got some study areas and yeah, it's just a nice small room If we come this way, I can show you guys where the mailboxes are this is where you're gonna get your letter mail There is going to be a video on the housing Mail website that we'll tell you how to open up mailboxes You can get all your information for them on your housing portal. Mm-hmm. You'll show them a box with your roommate. Gotcha I can introduce you guys to the CRE of your building. Hello My name is Mackenzie. I am the CRE of Reed Hall that stands for coordinator for residents education So basically I am the main supervisor for this hall I supervise all the resident assistants and also manage kind of like day-to-day aspects of the hall So if you have any questions about what I do, you can drop them in the chat I'll come with you on the rest of the tour, so I'll be here. Awesome. Yeah, nice to meet you and welcome Yeah, yeah, let's know if you have any questions for Mackenzie about being a CRE or anything, but all right What is it next? Right now it is empty because we just switched over to Coke from Pepsi and we have another menu one You can use Apple Pay or Tap on these. Just cool feature that the halls have now. We'll update the system If we have this way, we'll head over to the summer room and like many little kitchen area This is the summer room. It's a very nice little place to hang out with friends possibly study You'll see a lot of people hanging out here And it also gets all this natural lighting and it's so pretty. Yeah Nice place to hang out. So the stadium is right out there. Can't tell because the blinds are down right now We'll sit through here. Nice Do a lot of programs happen in this room We're just really really hanging out. It's more hanging out a study room kind of aspect That's the room that you saw earlier. That's where a lot of programming happens. Gotcha So if we go this way, you can look at the gym read is one of the three halls that actually have a gym incentive building Oh, I got you While we're waiting in you can see the time to the gym. They're always Jam and read there's a bathroom Here down here as well And read is also connected to one of the UAPD offices. That is just through that door. Okay But yeah, also the only people that can use this gym are the people that live in reed. So it's also very secure. It's an exclusive All right Well, you all let us know if you have any questions about read and now I think you'll take us to the living room and kitchen So hope what are you studying? What's your major? I'm double majoring in chemistry and chemical engineering. Okay And I'm minoring in physics math and sociology. Gotcha. Are you excited for your classes or not really? Yeah First week after Silvis week, you'll know if you'll be excited or dreading it This is the main kitchen area As well as a little living room area, you'll see people cooking around here all the time and people be hanging out It's almost kind of rare to not see someone using the So well used yeah within the reed community There's also a lot of programs that are hosted over here like baking nights. I've always a thing in this building Mm-hmm. Oh, and if we want to look outside see the patio area So the patio connects to the kitchen as well as one of them living rooms. Mm-hmm. It's a nice little area Yeah, I'm sure that they'll spruce it out up just a little bit before moving. Gotcha, but it is a very nice area This way connects the kitchen We have the living room. You'll see people having movie nights here all the time There's always something going on. Well, sometimes you even programs here for movies What's your what's your summer guilty pleasure show? I don't know if I have one. I love criminal minds personally So this is the community the co-ed restroom So since this is an all-girls dorm if you have someone that is male that is coming over They would have to use this restroom on the first floor. Okay, gotcha You can see this way The first room on your right is going to be the trash room For trash and reed you do have to go outside this door and take it to the dumpster That's right outside the door. Okay, but this is where you come Gotcha And then if you keep going down this way We will hit the laundry room. This is the laundry room. It also has an ice machine if you ever need it As you can see, there's quite a few washes. Why don't be dryers? There's enough to go around. I promise You'll be surprised We are switching to a new system for washing and drying this year We are doing two washes and two drys for per week That it's not up and ready yet, but by the time you guys move in, it will be. Yeah, and that app is speed queen One quick note about Laundering Make sure you don't leave stuff here because we have had sometimes in the past student's clothes have taken out Just make sure that you're really on top of when your clothes are done Don't be one of those people who leaves it in there for an hour or multiple hours Because you may know the answer to this question. Did they get new washing machines? Do they look new? They look quite similar to the ones that I've seen in here before, so I don't think they're now So we've had a mixture. We did lifecycle our laundry machines at a pretty regular pace but the ones for speed queen they just need to be networked so that you can Bob your Washers and dryers. We're going to the 8th floor And we're going to check out the rooms and common area in the bathrooms that show we may lose a little bit of connection here You also just bear with us if we do what if we went on the 8th floor is living in the Yeah, when we've been doing construction Yes, there is see some construction stuff on the floors Upgrades to electricity upgrades to the vinting Looks like it needs new lights You hang out sometimes our is web programs in this area And we had a question Christopher. Do you know how much extra washers will cost $1.50 is what we think $1.50 So we're gonna head over to what each bathroom looks like on the floor again bathrooms and reed except for the one on the first floor are We have the stalls that are separated from the showers And then these are the showers. Yes So it looks like there's five gotcha. And then how many bathrooms are on each floor bathroom areas to On this side and then on the other side of the floor on the other side of the elevators. There's gonna be enough gotcha Right now, I think we'll go look at a room, right But every single room is going to look the same Okay Removal Shells We got Built-in closets and then if we look outside you have a great view of the stadium This is awesome view the other side does have a great view also of like those are found so yes Great views and read and all the links that are like this Will we be looking at an end room? Yes, yeah, that was an extra that was a question that we were asked Yeah, just give us a little give us a little bit to look at it in room But yeah, I'll do one last overview of the room and then I'll start taking some questions and hope do you have the measure on you? You go in Christopher we were asked to look at an end room Okay, gotcha And then okay, so we'll get to y'all's measurement questions, but we'll look at the end room first because most of y'all will be having a Having just the regular rooms the common rooms. There's only how many of these in rooms on each floor two on each floor So this is the exception. Yeah, and the furniture is the furniture the same Yeah All right I don't think they asked for dimensions in the end room I guess if we wanted to look we could see we could get the length and width of the room because everything else should be the same Yeah, we just got a question for what are the room measurements for an end room? 17 okay, so 17 17 8 inches long and then a it was 8 feet something wide Eight by eight eight feet ten inches Wide and then you want to go ahead and give us a height as well. Yeah Gotcha And then someone was asking about measuring the space above the vanity But should that be that that would be the same in the the other rooms, right? Just in case this is an outline let's go ahead and measure Okay, gotcha Do all the spaces above the vanity have doors so this one does so I see me The regular rooms don't have doors that close on their Mm-hmm storage spaces. Yeah, gotcha. Yeah, so this is the only room just for the end room Gotcha, okay Well, I think that's all the questions about the end room So I think we can go back to the the other room and get started in the measurements Yeah 11 feet one inch And the maid sorry we did just give one more question how many plugins are in the end room So let's see if you can see So to there There's another one right here So there are eight eight plugs All right, so now we can go to the Room let's do the way hope And I'll scroll up and see where the last question was So the first question we have is could you measure from the top of the desk to the ceiling so we can make shelves? 55 gotcha. All right Can we get closet measurements And we think we have we have them pretty done So the closet From the floor to this it is Not given I think it's just just like from here So the depth of this is 11 and then the height from this to this is 411 411 So from the bottom to the kind of that first that first shelf yes and then the height right here is nine inches nine inches and then the Width is one foot four one foot four and then the height up here is One and then to the ceiling one foot nine one foot nine and then the width is also Okay, gotcha so width for everything is one foot four gotcha Hmm Yeah, the full height Okay, so Seven feet seven inches for the height of the closet And then I know someone was asking about the vanity, but here is the space above but the vanity here How many inches off the floor is a semi lofted bed? So I guess semi lofted is how it would be here so Right here is about 35 inches. I believe and so every Like peg that you can adjust it to is three inches So I'd say I guess hope could you measure like where it is currently just to give people an idea of where it's at now So it's currently the beds will be most of them will be defaulted to one foot eight inches off the ground I'll go from 24 inches to 59 inches Every three feet You can do three inch intervals between 24 inches and 59. Oh, sorry. Yeah, 24 and 59 inches gotcha How high is the 36 and lofted bed? I'm not sure what that Yeah, you can usually sit start the laser beam and you can move it Exactly right here. Yeah, gotcha. So about that that that area Yeah, good job You don't even you don't even need that tape measuring Or not to measure the electrical measure. What do we do with the desk chairs and desk shelves that we won't use? You are not allowed to take any furniture out of the room, so like you can't bring it home or throw it out I know people have done that in the past and that is a no people have stored them under their beds before That's always an option. Mm-hmm. That's usually what I've seen people do anything you would add Mackenzie. I know in the past that people have Stored everything away just like hope said the only thing that you have to make sure to do before Moving out at the end of the year is you have to make sure everything is put back together How you found it? So just keep that in mind when you're trying to rearrange things. Okay, gotcha What is the measure of the heights of the cinder blocks trying to get a measurement for a shelf? We have seen in the picture The ledge. Yeah Okay, so the ledge is 11 foot 8 this way. Mm-hmm and then This way it is one foot two. Mm-hmm. And then what's the height? Does it stay on there? You may have to measure it Five by two height. And then the height from the floor is two by nine. Okay How far is the windowsill height? So we kind of uh, yeah, we just just talked about that Five foot two, yeah All right, so we're up to date on those questions, but uh, feel free to keep asking them Um, oh, we say that and so I just got us another question Can you confirm the highest level of the bed trying to buy a bed skirt to cover the highest loft? So it'd be about six feet is the highest loft Look it up. You can check move in but you are 90 to you and you're ready to arrive And under the five foot loft area, it'll say it's about that. I'll give that exact measurement. I think I did earlier it is 59 inches Highest that it can be lofted. Okay, so about almost five feet All right, but in the meantime, uh, hope could you talk a little bit about a week? Yeah, so a week is a event that we have on campus It is right after you guys move in it's the first week before classes start Basically, campus just hosts all these events for you guys to make new friends and new people Try new things in Fayetteville, try new things for the University of Arkansas Now all these cool events they have events that free food like the taste of Fayetteville where they bring in um Like vendors from the area like local people to try new foods And you might find places that you want to go with friends afterwards They also have things like chocolate wasted, which is kind of like a dance party and A little bit of everything is also to raise advocacy Um around campus and then they also have things like traditional where you go down to raise your next stadium And you learn all these traditions that we do at games and just try to be like a true hot fan Yeah All right. Thank you And I would definitely definitely recommend uh going out to those because that's a good way to uh To meet new friends. Uh, we had another question was does room 321 face the stadium? Um 321 Yes, should face the stadium Because I believe it's 9 through 22 Gotcha All right, awesome. Well, um, that's also we're up to date on the most questions But for now I'll talk about pick one. Hope let me know if All right, it's camera good All right, perfect So we have this uh program that we have that's called pick one You can find more about it by going to pick one dot york dot edu And essentially, uh, what it is that we have so many different student organizations on campus that it can be a Little overwhelming So the goal of it is to just pick once that way you join it at the start of your At the start of the school year It's that way you're already involved uh with an organization on campus and that could be anything from lead hogs where you um Um Make improvements to the dorm you meet every week with the people living in your residence hall It could be something related to uh u rec, which is our fitness center Um, and so you'll do activities revolved around that and there's so many more that I can't even remember them all But definitely go to pick one dot york dot edu and be sure to to join before you come on campus All right, let me see You did get a question. There's not a kitchen on each floor. There's only one on the first floor There's there's two so we have the big kitchen and we have the little kitchen at right outside of the Yeah, it's uh because the the bigger kitchen has everything that you can think of and the small kitchenette has a oven and a stove Gotcha All right, um in the meantime before we wait for questions, uh hoping Mackenzie I was wondering what advice would you give we'll start with we'll start with hope for incoming freshmen All the advice you get words of wisdom I'm gonna say don't be afraid to go to office hours teachers are there for a reason the professors are very helpful during those hours Gotcha Do not sleep on those because we will do and they Do not end up at all. Yeah, it may help when you finally need to to boost that b to an a When your professor actually knows you All right, hope took mine. So I think it's something different. Um, since you kind of pay on an academic Um piece of advice I'll hit on maybe like a social piece of advice Um, so I know we residents typically are very involved on campus um, but for those of you who might Be a little uncomfortable kind of going to things by yourself. Don't be a lot of freshmen coming on campus I'll feel the same way. Um, but that's how you're going to just find your community on campus is try and do things So don't be afraid to put yourself out there. I know it's scary but a lot people are doing it Gotcha. Thank you. Great advice from both of y'all. All right. We have no more questions. So I'm gonna do a quick quick overview of the room again See if there's any last thing here. I'm gonna I'm gonna get in the corner. There we go Will the rooms be clean for move-in or should we bring cleaning supplies? Yeah, they'll definitely be clean we went through that. Um at the end of last semester So they'll definitely they'll definitely be cleaned um and for anything um when you move in there will be uh Be like dollies and mallets if you need to adjust your bed. So um, there's we'll have a some move-in supplies Hope would you describe your move-in process? Yeah My freshman year was a little bit weird because I can move into COVID. I don't which kind of altered the process But um I will say bring all the help you can get and um I think a big tip i'm moving in is to get everything in your room first and then start unpacking Because otherwise you're going to run out of time in the parking lot and that's not going to be fun Because then you have to leave and you have to try to get yourself in without being able to be close to Yeah, um, but yeah, definitely Bring everything up first move your car and then unpack that is something that Yeah, did you have lots of boxes like grabable boxes? um I do now now that I've moved A couple times. Um, I have more experience and I do think that like disposable boxes are pretty easier like cardboard um They're just easier because you can just kind of they're like a dollar out of store You just recycle them instead of having to like just store them somewhere um But then also sometimes if you bring um shelving Or like those like three tier cars Sometimes if you already have them like filled with stuff, it's actually easier when you're moving in So you don't have to like try to unpack anything and to put it back. It's like a container If that makes sense. Yeah, that's also something I would recommend You're gonna like bring those little like carts and shelves like haven't filled already Yeah, but definitely agree uh with uh getting all your stuff in your room first because that makes it easier for For us as someone who used to be an r. A, you know Very very helpful if you get all your stuff in your room first and then start unpacking shower shoes Oh, yes, shower shoes are a must in these showers. Um, so since you share a shower with basically everybody on your floor Don't want to accidentally contract anything from anyone. Yeah Yeah So, yeah, yeah, we have two questions about air conditioning. Uh, so will the a cv turned on for moving? Yes, absolutely. We would not do that to you That would be yeah, definitely that made me remember one thing definitely. I remember to bring water When you go to moving because it's going to be hot. We also will have water Here for you. Um, but yeah, we do have water fill up stations on every floor and on the ground floor So if you have like a water bottle, you can also use that There's ice makers, right? If you had your hydro flask, you know throw a couple ice cubes in there Stay cold all day. But next question about the a c does each floor control the a c or how does that work? It's a great question. So Each room does have a thermostat so you can't turn down your room However, if you're wondering about like overall a c versus heat control, we don't have control over that for each room. So If you're cold, you can't turn it on to the heat when the a c's on if that makes sense But you do have like direct temperature control. Do you tell them about the seasonal change? Yes. Yeah, so, um Every year when we go from hot from cold to hot like in october It's typically for the fall and usually april and spring. Yeah Um, Reed sometimes does have some issues with the temperature. Um, and also sometimes mold will happen I don't want to worry anyone. The mold has always been non-toxic Um, there are a lot of ways you can prevent doing that. So that means, um, Putting in a work order just as soon as you see something so that our maintenance crew can come in and clean everything They always do Don't put things over your a c unit Like especially what towels that has caused a lot of issues in the past And three get dehumidifiers Get things that will collect moisture from the air that has helped mitigate the issues Just so you are aware Gotcha We have another question for you Mackenzie for move-in. Will we be directed to a specific lot after we unload? Um, so if that's a yes, right? Yeah, um, typically it's garland parking garage. Yeah, it'll be garland parking garage You can park there Not overnight, but during the day at the top floor Okay, gotcha and a follow-up to that is can our kids park in resident reserve on move-in days? Not on move-in days. So our lot will be completely closed down from Tuesday through Sunday or it's at least Saturday at least Saturday So for a majority of move-in week, it'll be closed. I won't park there. RAs won't park there. Um, typically People have resident reserve will park in a parking lot across from reed Um, that is still very close to the building a lot 56 is also a place where you can park Before you know during move-in Yeah It's on the south end of campus. It's a little distance from here. So yeah, gotcha And then once you're able to like park back and resident reserve are as well, you know, yes, gotcha Um, next question. How bright are the mirror lights? So could you turn that turn that on? This is how how bright it is Yeah um next question My daughter's room is on floor eight. Are elevators really slow on move-in? Will we have enough time to go to and from our car? You will definitely have enough time. I was an r.a in reed for three years So I've done move-in here for three years and we haven't ever really had that many issues of people not being able to Um Make it so our elevator policies that if you are rolling something or carrying things If you're above floor four, you are able to take the elevators up and down So we don't allow everyone to go to try and mitigate some of that issue And there will be someone like sitting in the elevator, right to control it. All right, we'll be controlling the elevators. Gotcha All right. Well, I think that's all the questions we have Um, I'm gonna do another another last preview of the room See if there's any last minute questions and then I'll have you'll sign us out What type of extension cords are we allowed to have? You're able to have extension cords, but I will say be wary because they will sometimes cause like a Short-out like a circuit I would try to get something that is like More secure. They do have search protectors like six extension cords that I would recommend I have one and it works fine. I got my formal mart merged a couple of looks Definitely get a search protector one that you help get one that can I turn on and off with the switch? Um, and also when you do have them because every student will have an extension cord don't Fill up all the plugs because that's gonna help Not have Yeah, yeah, and we just recommend that you don't plug cords into cords. Yeah Try not to have an extension cord and then plug another extension cord. Yeah. Yeah bad things might happen But yeah circuit circuit protectors are good to have Mm-hmm. All right. Well, I think that's all the questions we have so, um We'll start with you Mackenzie to sign us off any last words. Um, I'm very excited for this upcoming year in breed It's great to be back in a place. I called home for three years I'm really excited to get to create, you know, welcoming and excited community for all the residents here So I'm really excited to meet everyone. Um, so yeah, good luck packing for the next three weeks And I'm excited to see you. Yeah, and we do have one last question for you If we mail to our so this person said they're coming from georgia If we mail to our student will the mail room be open during move-in? So can they pick up packages during move-in? I'd say I don't think we can accept packages prior to the move-in Okay, because we don't have a good place to hold on to it Yeah, and our call admin that usually does all of our packages. Um, it's going to be very busy with like keys and things But if you want to call our front desk of housing and get a better answer feel free to I'll be able to tell you more exactly like what's the exact date when you can start mailing things because I understand the need It's just we don't have the human resources to pull that one off Gotcha and to find that phone number you can go to housing.york.edu And all right, everyone. Thank hope for giving our tour around and yeah, you can go and sign us out All right. Thank you guys for coming. I hope you guys enjoyed our little tour recall And I hope you guys are excited to move in and we'll see then Awesome. Thank you