 My name's Hope. I'm a competitive bastard at the University of Arkansas and I'll be leading you guys through your tour of Pots Hall. We just go ahead and introduce the cameraman. Yeah. Hey y'all, my name is Henry. I'm going to be the cameraman for today and I'll be monitoring your questions. So feel free to ask anything. I'll be sure to ask Hope your questions and let us know where you're tuning in from like city and state. But what's up? Cool. So we're going to start actually outside for today. If we look just right over here to our left, we will see the quads. The quads is home to Futural Dining Hall, not Futural, Full Park Dining Hall. And that's where people will come together and eat a lot on campus, especially on this side. And then to our right, we have Mabel South, which is home to one of the meal trades on campus. Also to the left, we have Small Mart and the Garland Parking Garage. Small Mart is just a really small Walmart that people like to go to instead of actually having to go off campus. And as the necessities that you would need so that you don't actually have to make that trip. If we notice right here, we have Key Fab. It basically just unlocks the buildings. Every single residence hall has them. Every single residence hall also has only work for their building. So that way there is really good security for all of them. Gotcha. So if we go this way, we will notice a ping-pong table and a pool table as well as a kitchen and TV. A lot of residents will come and hang out, cook. There's a bunch of ping-pong tournaments. You can always plan on that. There's always someone down here doing something. And then if we come this way, we will see the theater. Again, it's another place where a lot of people like to come and hang out. There's a bunch of movie nights. There'll be programs in here that floors will have for movie nights. You can rent out a Nintendo Switch from the front desk and also have a game night in here. There's just a bunch of stuff that people happen to do in here. It's really nice. Gotcha. Where's your next? We are going to head to the music room. Which is just basically a room where if you like to put piano you can play. Or if you're a music major or like to play any type of instrument. It has really good sound quality and it also doesn't disrupt anybody else. Nice place to practice. Yes. So as you can see, there is a piano and there is actually some sheet music. There's not a bunch, but this is a nice area. Gotcha. Alrighty. Now, before we move on to the rest of the tour, I'm going to introduce you to one of the representatives from the Honors College. Hi, all. My name is Payton Jones and I'm a graduate assistant for the Honors College. And some of the opportunities the Honors College will offer you is that you have an available space for you. You can study on the first floor. As well as the second floor, you can go and visit our Futures Hub and they'll help you find internships, plan your study abroad trip. It'll just really help you plan for the future. Also every Thursday we offer recess, which is a great time where you can grab coffee, snacks, and tea, and also study and play games. And another fun program we offer with here at Hots Hall is Professors' Peets on the patio. It's a great opportunity where students can meet with Honors faculty staff. As well as professors that you can just kind of grab pizza. It's super chilly. They sometimes offer ice cream. And they tell that the pie patio at Hots Hall. Gotcha. Alrighty. That's really cool. We can actually step out onto the patio. You guys are going to look for it. And be sure to y'all to let us know any questions you have about Hots or about the Honors College. Henry, have you ever spent any time out on the patio? I did. So I actually lived in Hots for three years. And so I would spend a lot of time out here studying and reading. And especially for H2P, some of y'all may be taking those classes. I did a lot of reading out here for that. So yeah. So to go this way, we're going to go show at the gym at Hots. Hots is one of the only residence halls. There's only three of them that have a gym. So it's really nice. It's still small, but there's the necessities that you would need so that you don't have to go all the way down to the hyper. Gotcha. On the way there though, we'll see the fishbowl room. This is where lead hogs hold their meetings. There's also programming, but a lot of people like to study in here as well. There's usually always somebody in there. Which is also really nice because it helps community a lot. So what are you studying? I'm a double major in chemistry and chemical engineering. And I'm a triple minor in sociology, physics, and math. Gotcha. And this is the gym. And Hots is only one of three residence halls to have a gym. The other is Duncan and Reed. Before we show the front desk and go to the rooms, we introduced you guys the CRE of the building. Hi, everyone. I'm the CRE, which is coordinator for residence education, pretty much a hall director for Hots Hall. I've been here for a year. So this is my second year in Hots. So excited to see you guys here. You can always reach out to me if you have any issues in the building or if you had some great ideas for programming and all of that. I supervise the RAs. You'll get to know your RAs pretty soon. So yeah, welcome to Hots. Excited you guys will be here. And I'll be joining you all now. Awesome. Y'all, be sure to let us know if you have any questions for Toledo. But one question I had. Are there any favorite moments you have of Hots, favorite memories, or any favorite programs? Oh, absolutely. So last year, we started a program called Bar Trivia, which was an alcohol readiness program. And that was super fun because we had our Dr. Prost, which is just professors that come to our building and hang out with the residents. So they came and they participated in a trivia night, kind of like a bar trivia. We had mocktails. We had UAPD bringing the canines. So that was super fun. We had a cute photo booth. It was the best. We had a lot of residents coming and learning to, like engaging with each other. So that was super fun. That was my favorite program last year. Hopefully we get to do this year again. But yeah. All right. Cool. Well, y'all be sure to let us know if you have any questions for Toledo. And what's up next, Hope? All right. We're going to head to the front desk. And on the way, we're going to actually pass by the mailboxes. So every single dorm, every single room has their own mailbox. You share it with your roommates. And you'll get a combination. It will be in your housing portal. And that's where you just get your paper mail. Anything that fits in the mailbox, they'll put it in the mailbox. Hi, James. So this is the front desk. This is where you'll get your packages. This is also where you can check out any type of equipment. There's usually some array here. Not every hour of the day. Like obviously not like three in the morning, but during business hours and usually until about 10 p.m., there'll be somebody here that you can run equipment from, such as like, if you need to make cookies, you can get that. Or if you're going to like do a pasta night with friends, you can get that type of thing. And then obviously we showed the ping pong tables and pool table over there. And you can let that come out over here. We also mentioned like an Nintendo Switch. There's an Nintendo Switch and just like different types of games. There's board games. Almost anything you can think of, you can get a desk. Cool. Lots of fun stuff to check out. Yes. So now we're going to make our way down to the laundry room. All we got is hallway into the left. And we're going to explain a little bit about the laundry process now. It's changed a little bit since last year. And we just got a question from someone. They said, so packages can be picked up at HOTS. We were informed they would need to be picked up at Maple Hill. Could you explain a little bit about that? This is actually a new thing. So HOTS this year will be receiving their own mail. Last year you would have to pick it up itself, but we are not doing it like that anymore. So you will just get packages delivered to you. Gotcha. Cool. So then this is the laundry room. There is obviously, as you can see, there's quite a few washers and dryers. Perfect for the building. The laundry process has changed a little bit from last year. So now you get two washes and two dryers per week. And there will be an app that you will be able to access that from. Yeah, there's an app called Speed Queen. And we'll be giving you all more information about that in the coming weeks. You'll essentially download that app and then you'll log in, log your washes, and there will be more information about that coming up soon. Alright, thanks Ope. What's next? So now we're going to head up to one of the rooms. We're actually going to go to the ninth floor, which is the top floor of this building. Gotcha. And we're going to be able to show you guys what a common area on the rooms look like, as well as any questions you guys might have about the actual dimensions of the rooms. Gotcha. And we may lose a little bit of connection here. You also bear with us if we do. So I think you were an RA and you will be an RA, right? Yes. Could you explain a little bit about what an RA is, what it stands for, and what they do? Yeah. So an RA is a resident assistant. There's about one per floor in each building. And we're basically here to make sure that your trains are things like that. That's always something that's kind of built around. Gotcha. Alright, so this is one of the floors. And I think we will be going this way. So right here, we have a recycling station. Right now it's closed just for summer, but during the school year it will be open. This is really big on recycling, so it's the whole campus. So it's really good to have these on every floor. And then if we go in this way, we have one of the two common areas on each floor. There's another one on the other side of the elevator. But it looks identical to this. People will come here to study, hang out, watch DVD. Again, those programs that I was talking about, those will also be held here. And then if we come down a little bit more, we get one of the two water fountains on each floor. It has a water bottle refill station, which is really nice. You can just bring your water bottles and refill them, so you can keep using plastic. Do you have your own water bottle? I do. What does it look like? Was it cool? I have one that's like a university theme that just says University of Arkansas. I think it says College of Engineering on it. And then I have another one that's like my hiking water bottle as I like to call it. It's heavy duty. It's pink with a bunch of stickers that my friend, my roommate actually gave to me when I moved in. I feel like you can really customize your water bottle with stickers. I recommend it. Yeah. Okay, so this is one of the examples of the bathrooms in Hats. Hats has two of these type of bathrooms per floor. If we just go into one, we can see that the shower and almost all of them, the doors are from ceiling floors. So there's no weird crap going on there. There's also these two bathrooms right here, which are one of them is unisex. Because each board is broken up by gender. So if you have friends that are coming over, it's good to have an opposite gender bathroom. And those are our full bathrooms, I believe. Yes, they have showers in this one. And someone just asked how many showers per bathroom. Would you happen to know how many that is? Um, no. Or Tolita, what do you know? The behind the scenes. The behind the scenes. It's about four. Yes, four. I did kind of my head. Gotcha. But yeah, we have the individual one as well. So yeah, it's pretty nice because you can close that door and it's actually closed. You have the toilet and the shower. So it gives you some privacy, which is really nice. Gotcha. And Tolita, this is another question for you. But in the kitchen area, do you know if there's a toaster that can be checked out from the desk? Um, we do not have a toaster. We do have like a little convection oven that you can use. A lot of people use for like making pizza or like baking cookies and all of that. So we do not have a toaster. Gotcha. Alright, I hope it takes us to a room. Alrighty. So first we're going to show room 908. Any room that ends at 8 is going to look like this. It's not a lot of us have rooms that look like this, but we did think it was kind of important to show. These are on the ends, the end of the floors. If you have one of the buildings at the end of the hallways, this is what you're going to look like. Gotcha. Yeah, just double room. And then obviously the views are amazing in these buildings. And be sure you also let us know any questions you have about the rooms or if you want any measurements, because we'll be sure to get those done as well. We'll do one last look at this room. And just as a reminder, these are the rooms at the end of the floors. These are probably not most of the rooms that you will have. Alright. And then you're going to go into this room right now. This is what almost every single room in Hats is going to look like. The exact dimensions and everything. There will be two beds, two dressers, and basically two of everything. Gotcha. Alright, y'all. This is the last spot on our tour, so be sure to let us know any questions you have about the room or about Hats, about the Honors College in general. Or if you want something specifically measured, please let us know. I guess we can also open these up just to see what the space is like. My room was exactly like this, and I actually just got a question that I feel like I can answer a little bit since I lived in Hats for three years is do you feel like you still have enough room in your dorm if it isn't lofted? And I would say I felt like my, the three years I lived here, I felt like I did have a lot of room. My bed was lofted a little bit, but it wasn't all the way high up. I didn't have to climb stairs to get into it. But you can fit your drawers underneath there in your nightstand, but I feel like there's plenty of enough room. One question we have, Hope, if you can help me count, is how many outlets are there? And Tolita, would you happen to know how many outlets there are? I've been touring there for months, but that's helpful. That's because there's a lot of, like, months like that. And then over there we have another one. Gotcha. And then on this side as well. So this side we have the, kind of like this spot for cable TV and all of that. So one of those is being used, but the other, but we also have another one that name. Gotcha. So a lot of space for you to plug your things in. Cool. Alright y'all, let us know what other questions you have. And yeah, actually in the meantime, Hope, could you talk a little bit about A-week? Yeah, so A-week is actually right after movement. It's the week before school classes start. It is a great time to know the university, get to make some friends, and just to experience a lot of things that they have a lot to offer. A-week will post a schedule for that week. Actually probably coming up in a few days. But basically every single day there's super programs starting all the way early in the morning at like 7am sometimes and then all the way to like 7pm at night. And they're not mandatory, but they're really fun to go to. I highly recommend them. They have things like chocolate wasted, which is sponsored by housing, which is an awareness, but also they have like a dance floor and they give out a bunch of like desserts and chocolate and things like that. And then they also have the taste of Fayette phone, which is where a bunch of like restaurants and things like that in the area come and they give out samples of their food, which I know that's also really popular and people love that. Yeah, people love free food. Yes. And then they also have like some like tradition stuff where I'm pretty sure, I'm correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm pretty sure they have like a little thing at the stadium. I could just kind of teach you like different like how to call hodds and all of that fun stuff. I can't jump in with no hodds. That's packed for Ollie. The big ones for us, the hearing hods, we actually invite the entire building to go together. Last year we went and I think it was about 150 of us all walking together and wearing black. That's our tradition. We all wore black and then we paint like hods on our arms, like we show our hot spirit. So it's really something that we do and it's big here for our community. We get some ice cream before we go. And then we go together to the stadium and that's a lot of fun. So you get like hopes that like you get to call the hods and like learn how to be, you know, it's very traditional, right? So it's super fun. You guys will definitely come, hopefully, if you're living hot and yeah, we'll like to know when we're meeting and all of that on that day and we can all walk together to this venue. Gotcha. Super cool. Well, you all be sure to let us know if you have any questions again about hods with this room, also about the Honors College. And yeah, and one thing I can talk about briefly if I can, I'm just saying this camera is always a little bit hard. Can you let me know? Hope it's... You're good. All right. It is Pick One. Pick One is this program where it'll let you get involved in a campus organization, kind of right when you move to campus. And there's so many of them that I can't even describe them all, but like one of them would be lead hogs where they help put on programs in the residence halls. Another one would be focused on UREC and fitness. And so there's just so many different organizations. You can learn more about it at pickone.uark.edu. Or if you just Google Pick One UARC. And I believe you can also rank your preferences one, two, three. Hope I don't know. Did you ever use that Pick One? I started school during COVID. Oh, gotcha. So probably when it started. I don't think it started yet. And it did. It wasn't really advertised because like even orientation for us, everything was online when I started. So I'm not too sure. I'm gonna leave towards no no. Gotcha. Well, definitely check it out y'all. Check out the website and yeah. So I'm gonna look and see if there's any more questions. But in the meantime, I hope do you have any advice you would give to our incoming freshmen? Words of wisdom, things you wish you knew? That's a great question. Don't be afraid to like go to things or do things and just like have a good time and experience college. There's like a bunch of like pressure coming from family or friends, old friends, siblings, teachers, literally almost anywhere. Like all like telling you so many things at once and like telling you like things have to be this way, things have to be this way. Really it's like this is like what you want to do, especially because like you might, you're gonna meet like some of your best friends here. I know I have and it's always like a really fun time. So like don't be afraid to like go to the games or spend the night in the library or you know just like go to the program by yourself because your friends don't want to go with you, your roommate doesn't want to go. Like don't be afraid to do things because otherwise you're just gonna miss out on them and that's no fun. Gotcha, thank you. Tolita, do you have any any advice you would have for people coming into the residence hall? Absolutely. So I would say kind of like going with what Hope said don't be afraid to get out of your room. I think it's very you know it's usually a lot of people just be in their room and like go to class and come back and sit in their room. Like don't let that happen to you. Get out of your room, get to know your RA. Like you have an RA on your floor and they will be dedicated to like make your experience better and like really help you get involved. So get to know your RA's, get to know me. I would love to know you. Stop by my office, say hi. I always have a snack so if you want to come back get a snack. But yeah get involved on campus. There are a lot of things that you can join like Henry mentioned the big one campaign that you can be involved even before arriving to campus. Getting into lead hogs, that's a big one for hogs. Last year we had about 70 people that started with lead hogs so that was really fun. A lot of our lead hogs have got like different leadership positions on campus. I actually have two of my RA's this coming year and they were lead hogs last year. So that's something that interests you. So really just get out of your room, go to things like participating things. Get out of your comfort zone, get to meet people, get to meet staff members, get to meet your professors as well. Don't be afraid to reach out. Everyone here is here for your success and like hoping that you're going to be the best that you can be in your future career. So we're really here cheering for you. So yeah. Yeah. And as our representative from the Honors College, our graduate assistant, any advice you would have for people that are going to be in the Honors College or hoping to join the Honors College? Yeah, I would really just say get to know Honors College. There's multiple opportunities to get to know them whether it's at recess or any other event on campus. They are really there to help you. They want to see you succeed. And our Dean, Dean Cune of the Honors College loves to meet students. So it would be a really great opportunity to chat with her and really build up. As someone who Dean Cune taught me a class or two, she's amazing. Definitely go for each out to her. She is. She's great. Yeah. And we have one question for you. I think, Tolita, you would know this. Yeah. Is there an alarm system in the building for severe weather? Razor alert. We have, yeah. Razor alert, which is something that you would get on your phone. It's just lighting in the like what is the condition and like when to take shelter, which is really helpful. You get a text message or you can also get a call and everyone will get an email. It goes right away, which is really helpful. We do have like fire alarm in the building. So we do a fire, kind of like a test during the first weeks of class. So to make sure everything is working. And then you will see, if you're going to live in hop next year, you will see a signage saying like, we're doing a fire drill this day, like be prepared. So it's a great way for us to like take precaution and know what to do if those experiences occur. But yeah, Razor alert is a great one for weather, inclement weather and all of that. So, yeah. Awesome. Razor alert is good for a lot of stuff because it also tells you if there's anything like dangers happening on campus, which we don't really get a lot of that at all. But if there was ever like any problems with campus, it will alert you. Yeah. Yeah. And I think you can like set up different preferences on UA Connect for it. So it's a pretty useful tool. Yes. Well, all right y'all. I feel like we don't have any more questions. We'll do one last survey of the room. Also, I don't know if he's still before there are towel bars behind that door. And Christopher and I, I'm not saying anything. We talked about, we talked about... Maybe we open the drawers just to give them to you. Yeah, for sure. I'm curious about, yeah, the first situation. Yeah. And I know that someone asked about it before. I feel like when I was a freshman, I felt like I had run out of space. You're definitely going to collect things while you're in college. But I feel like generally there's enough space as a freshman student. But all right, Hope. I think you're good to sign us off. Yeah. So you can, the Honors College and staff are really excited to meet y'all. Y'all can meet us on August 16th when we're having our Honors College open house. They're excited to meet everybody. Gotcha. Any last words, Salita? Yeah. I'm excited for you guys to get here. You get to know me really well. Excited for you to also know your RA. Let us know if you have any questions. Follow us on Instagram on our hot Instagram. We're always posting things. And yeah, just, you know, enjoy this ride. We're so excited for you and can't wait to meet you. Awesome. Thank you. And thanks to Hope for giving us the wonderful tour. That's kind of hard to say. And as I said that, we had one last question. Which side is the A side and which side is the B side? Yeah. Great mystery. Yeah, the great mystery. Great question. By convention, it's A and B. But you have an A or B designation when you choose your, it doesn't always translate to, you as roommates will make the decision which one is A and B. Typically, A is to the left and B is to the right when you enter the room. But it's not always that case. All right. Thank you for the question. And I think that's the last one. So thanks again to Hope for the wonderful tour. And we will see you all next time on New York Home Live.