 Hey y'all, my name's Rue Pinkard. I'm a senior conference ambassador this summer and I'll be giving you a tour of Brexen Hall today But before we take a step inside, we're just gonna look around So over here we have a dining hall known as 1021. It's one of my favorites You can go there for breakfast and lunch up until about four o'clock every day within that downstairs There's also a Starbucks If you're anything like me, you're gonna order a black whole brew whenever you get to campus It's pretty great. You also have founders which is a lot of different restaurants that you can get at dinner and use your mail So I'm on the other side of Brexen if you're interested or are in band the music hall is right there Good to know might hear some sounds 1021 has a lot of different places. You can stop for food Is there a particular stop that you like the most? Um, I can never remember the name of it Yeah, there's a place where it's like vegan vegetarians whatever nice. I have a really good burrito bowl That's like vegan and it's amazing and I think that that's honestly. I go there every time fantastic. Yeah, very good Very good. Oh Anna's selling us best Hall ever probably an alum from Gregson. It is a great hall smaller and fantastic If you're chiming in if you're here, let us know where you're chiming in from so we can say hello to you So I was asking about 326 we'll be touring Floor one But if you're on floor one, let us know we might be able to dip into your room. Okay With that, we'll just go ahead and head inside But as we're walking inside, I'll talk about kind of the placement of brexen on campus It's pretty great. You're in central campus. Uh-huh far to walk to anything and I think that's really good Gregson Lodge is right. There's the old name. Yeah, still still call it. Sometimes Gregson Well, hello there, how are you doing? Well, how are you doing? Great? Good. My name is McKenzie As Reid said I'm the CRE or coordinator for residents education for Gregson Hall. Mm-hmm And what do is a CRE do? Yes. So primarily I'm supervisor for the RA staff the residents assistant staff But I also do programming. I know a lot of resources on campus So any resident that's struggling or it needs any advice they can come to me I got an enthusiast like McKenzie from someone on here. So that's good. That's good to see you can wait for that person and Yeah, I mean, is there any so do we have a lot of maybe some first-year students who are showing up any advice for them? Yeah, so get to know your professors like early on first couple weeks go to their office hours Pro tip their board. I have two professor parents. They're bored in their office hours So go get to know them. It makes it a lot easier to get help from them later on Yeah, and hello to Lgh from Texas. Good to see you room two three. It's actually not on the tour today We'll be on the first floor and Marquise love that you love Gregson. Hey, it's a great hall And yeah, yeah, yeah, okay. Well, great. Thank you for introducing yourself McKenzie appreciate it Yes, have fun on the tour. Okay, we'll keep on moving then Hi again This is the front desk So your front desk is usually going to be stopped by during the day It's going to be an adult desk admin in the evening There will be RA sitting here and also on the weekend RAs will sit at this desk to help you with anything that you need So if you're checking out supplies for like some of the like amenities downstairs, which we'll get to later You can come here. Also, this is where you're going to check out packages Like you can see here here the package hours for Gregson But yeah, the only other thing that we're gonna look at right here before we get to the room and go everywhere else It's also the mailboxes. Yes. Okay. We have our mailboxes right here. So they coordinate with your room number In your housing portal, you're also going to get a code for them and it'll be a three-digit code and you will Put it in right here. Yeah, you could find that in my details Yes in the housing portal and also you just can't figure it out and scan this There is that little bit of assistance right there if you need that communication. Yeah, well, great Well, so if you'll help me remember one person asked about measuring the interior of the closet So when we get in there, we'll do that and someone mentioned seeing room 127 and we are going to room floor one So we can probably hit that And one three eight, so we'll see what we can do on the first floor. Yeah, where's next? We're just gonna go ahead and head downstairs. Okay, some of the common areas. Yeah The interesting about interesting thing about Brexit is that there are a lot of large common areas, especially in the basement area Mm-hmm. So there are a lot of people staying out if you don't want to stay in your room or go anywhere else. I can't miss. Right And it's also very accessible One thing I will say though that you'll be seeing that's going up and down a lot of stairs because there's not an elevator No elevator be be prepared for that. No elevator So we come down here Every if you don't want to ask where you were you from I am from Mount Pleasant, Texas Okay, which is in the East Texas area that I grew up all around there I see I see what what brought you to the University of Arkansas. Both of my parents are from Arkansas They do not go to school here. They just wanted me to yeah, yeah, also there are a Way more opportunities here than a lot of other places I applied to. Okay. Okay glad to hear it We come in here. This is the library. So of course we have some board games up there Books, I think those are like a lot of your books I've been interested in looking at what's been going on at the University of Arkansas. You can check those out But there's a lot of seating you come in here and chill out. I There is a fireplace. It's all does not look like it functions So just imagine that there's a fire there. Right, right put your laptop there and run fire off of Netflix It's pretty great as we walk over here. There's more Seating and things like that. So you can sit right here There's a TV you can hook up movies and stuff And for everyone tuning in we are in the basement area of Gregson Hall on in the central part of campus right now There's some poppies Summer treat the chicken restaurant. Oh, no, no, no poppies, but they do have good This is public for anyone to use make sure you level your stuff. That's what I would recommend Also, we have a microwave some cabinet space The stove top one thing that I want to point out like we're talking about checking out things at the front desk You don't need to bring pots and pans to campus You can check those out from the front desk with the desk out there if there's an RA there I make it very very convenient. Please. Please return them clean. Yes, that's helpful for everything There is there's a sink And often times they'll have soap down here I think I would still recommend probably bring your own There's so for yourself. There's a blender which I've never seen a blender any of the nice nice Get that blender for your for your smoothies if you want to make a smoothie There's a room right beside it, and this is the laundry room. Okay, so there's five washers and six dryers Okay, the biggest thing that's changing about laundry this year is we're going to be utilizing the speed Queen app So before you get to campus if you can download that and kind of set it up to say that you're gonna be the University of Arkansas That would be amazing. You'll get two washes a week After you run out of all those washes for the semester. It'll be $1.50 for every wash after that So yeah, and when I say two washes, that's a wash and a dry Two cycles of wash dry per week also when you do download the app Try to find your school I think you'll be prompted to finding the University of Arkansas rather than creating your own account And you'll it'll hook you up to the account where you'll have credits already loaded. Yeah So nothing too crazy going on here Have tables to sit at and do Like homework and stuff where you're waiting on your laundry. This is a large enough But there are tables right out there to sit at which I'm doing and do you use powder to use pods or what's your what's your way of doing it? I generally use pods. I think it's the most convenient But that's just me. I know people that use like the liquid detergent. Yeah. Yeah, but use what you want pods are super convenient Little expensive, but super convenient. Is there a laundry in each floor late and asks? No, it's all down here in the basement We also have these vending machines. So these are contactless vending machines You can definitely just scan your debit card, but they're also accepting razor bucks So if you have razor bucks download into your account, you can use your student ID to do that And we also have this vending machine As well, which does the same exact thing and you can actually pay with your phone on this one I don't know if you can do it on those though. Yeah, so seeing if they have my favorite flavor of chips and they don't that's okay Oh, they got the voodoo chips. So those are really good saps We also have a pool table again, you check out all the supplies for that at the desk There is a communal restroom here So if you're done with people that don't live in this building, that'd be a great way. It's a good one to use Yeah, and and when it comes to guests, what would you say? I mean you can generally bring guests into the hall I mean, there's not really too much of a rule against it I think that the largest thing is like when we have finals and quiet hours. Yeah, you can still bring guests over It's just recommended that you kind of Stay quiet, right? We do have this formal quiet hours during that time too so desk Yeah, yeah If we lose contact it's because we're in the basement of Gregson and we'll be right back. So don't worry about that Yeah, yeah working on some something important Very good. Okay, but that is the basement area of Gregson I think it's awesome. There's a lot of things to do If you're just stuck in your door, especially when it if we end up really get an ice storm again Yes, and we do typically have what would you say one to two snows a year? But Yeah, and honestly they become events. Yeah, like when you see when it snows here people get out and Sled Yes So we're gonna head on the first floor and we're gonna check out Let's see how close we are. Yeah, let's do the bathrooms first And then we got a couple of requests for specific rooms and we'll hit what we can hit There's a lot of these water fountains everywhere. I think they're awesome. You can pull up your water bottle right here And just utilize that whenever. Yeah, I would say most people keep water bottles in their backpack and yeah, have them everywhere I recommend especially How many stairs the first floor that we just went up? I want to say how many stairs how many stairs I want to say between 25 and 30. Yeah, I would say yeah Here's one of the bathrooms on the first floor. Yes Oh, there was a question about how many serious the first four I was thinking maybe that was from the from the exit of the building and so probably there there were maybe six Yes, I think that sounds about right But there are a bunch of seats in here so looking at the bathroom here Also a lot of mirrors You're good to go. Yeah, but plenty of amenities here to use when you need them that last-minute fit check Right, right. Yeah, and then let's check out the shower. The shower is actually pretty nice. Yeah, the shower is very nice What I like about the shower is that they will have kind of double coverage I like to call it so that one door that closes and then a second one So whenever you do get out of the shower, you can keep this the first four you've got to close to change And whatever clothes you're you're getting in and leave You have a dressing room area right here, which I'll show there is a Yeah, there's a little bitch there to sit and then you have hooks hook there and things like that That's the general bathroom area in Barkson There's there's two per floor So let's go to 141 first and then let's see what you do and honestly a lot of these rooms are so similar Corners corners are a little different and I think there was a question see a corner on first floor We could probably do that Go 360 here These guys come up doors You also get kind of like a little dresser set up. So each person is one of these each person gets a closet There's a tower up On the back of these closets Right here, and then let me open them Cool thing about these closets is they're very deep Yeah, they are deep a little thing that hang your clothes on a little shelf, and then there's some extra storage up here Jay Mathas, this is a co-ed dorm and yes, it is men and women both live here Yeah, yeah, we were going to give some measurements to the Inside the thing. Yeah inside there This is for HCCC SLIP and We're getting a star. How much did you say the death of 22 22 inches deep 52 inches deep. Okay, and then height to the first shelf, maybe There's the full height Well, I actually mean this shelf right here this from right. Yes, please. Thank you 65 inches. I hope that helps with your dimensions 138 is a corner room that was called out and there's been some requests for corner rooms So that will be the one that we hit is one 38 Otherwise really these rooms are so similar Yeah, let me see who We got a request to measure the dresser drawers So we'll measure those for people which I think the drawers look exactly the same. Yes So we'll give the cubic volume in there That's gonna be 20 inches 33 and then you we may have to estimate on that I'd say about seven nine About six inches there in terms of height of the drawer for for Julie We got asked who regulates the temperature in the room and you do have some level of control here But don't think that you can like said it's a 50 like it won't it's like 68 Yes, yes, and we strive to keep the temperature around 72 I could tell whether could get unseasonal at times like in the cold times It'll get a little bit warm sometimes and the opposite will happen Yeah Yeah, I mean you're smart to bring the items you need to make yourself comfortable when you don't have complete control of the setting But like up in the 80s or down in the 50s. It's not gonna get in that terrain in your rooms or anything like that Julie, I hope that help it measure. Okay Um, can you measure from the towel hanger to the bottom of the door? You bet we can I would measure both Honestly, that's from the end of the of the heart hardware there That's going to be 68 inches 60 inches in from the bar itself 70 inches 70 inches. Okay. I hope you got those two numbers there Again that corner that we're gonna look at I believe was 138 Um, let's see if any other questions have come in Can you show where the outlets are located we sure can there's five outlets ten plugs There's also an outlet behind this bed, you can see there's another one right there that you can see There's four outlets right here where the dresses are right So that's four right there and then five would be behind here So that's where all five of them are and it equals ten plugs and you're welcome to use a power strip We just recommend you use the kind that are more like That will prevent Not the cheapest kind of the kind that actually have some element of protection out Who do we email about lifting the bed? Do you have any answer that? Yeah, so what you're gonna do is you're going to basically go on Google You're gonna type on type in you work you a RK fix it. So if I X it That'll bring up a form click on that click on the link basically the first one that pops up And it's just a form. We can fill out basically the information of the room You're gonna be staying in that you want your bed locked in and what was the day to do that till the end of the month Yeah, so you have until the end what a couple days three days a couple days until the end of this month And it will be done by the time you get here. Yeah, that's if you want it done And I will say that these look like the kind that you cannot do yourself Because they need another piece. They need another piece to be done into lofting now You can always get it lofted after you've arrived to it's just understand. You'll go into a queue at that point I'm a couple more questions about in here before we go to the corner Can you measure the inside wall where the dressers are? Which is this indentation here? 25 in that direction. Yeah 78 in that direction and then hide would be really ceiling to floor. Yeah Is there a new drawer that has a lock in here, I don't actually see one that has a lock on it so if you want that you might bring a safe or I Think if you go to the housing wet know the move-in website specifically you can rent a safe Yeah, so you might rent one or buy one because they don't have a locking door in this one Locking. Yeah. Okay. Well, that was the questions here. We can go into the rest of them in the other room So do you mind taking us over to 138? Yeah, I've got them in my hand part of the pocket. I'll grab a quick I'm a question about what if you and your roommate both show up. We're looking for one that says master on there It's pretty close, which is great. What if you and your roommate both show up with a refrigerator? So this is a great opportunity to communicate between Remates to make sure you don't have to refrigerators. I can't remember if we allow for two refrigerators in the room I don't think we do and it's just a great time for you and your you and your roommate to talk and discuss and say Hey, you bring the TV. I'll bring the refrigerator This is 138. This is you're gonna see the beds up. That's because they haven't been ready exactly for your arrival and But we're happy to show here's 138 If this is your room This is a corner room So Julie asked about how we have co-ed residence halls and asks is it just room-to-room-to-room? Typically, that's not how we do it and Gregson since the Russians are public They're gonna be separated by floor So this floor may be all women but the floor above it would be all men Yeah Something like that just to make sure that there's no confusion about restrooms or anyone feels unsafe But that's typically I'm separated. That is that is Occasionally we have some halls particularly in Pumfret where we can do a half and a half and so we'll do half male half female But those doors are closed to give each group privacy We've been asked can you measure the windows, please and I think that's the windows in here We're happy to do that for you Thanks for all your great questions. Do you need me to pull this down? I can pull this down By the way bed toppers are never a bad thing a lot of people bought get bed toppers That's gonna be about 48 inches 48 inches and then can we get top to bottom? I can move that out a little 56 around what was the first one 38? 48? 48 56 And also I want to add that like to double type all the specialties You can go to the housing website and the measurements of the windows should be up there They should we also have a new thing going on in the housing website as well where you can basically walk into a room And there's going to be a little measurement tool that's pretty easy to identify and then you can Yeah, click on the what looks like a ruler and that'll open up the interface where you can take one point And then pull across and it'll give you the actual measurements of it. That's new this year So check it out. Those are on the hall pages any other questions for us as we're going through Gregson Hall and looking at rooms. We're in a corner room now, which is a little more atypical Yeah But we're here to answer a couple more questions if you'd like No, did you tell us what you studied? So I'm a double major in political science and use editorial journalism with a double minor in gender studies and southern studies Wow, so yeah, that's what I studied here. I focus on sexual violence prevention I work nationally and do activism in that field I'm kind of hearing everything that I studied towards that. Okay When we were asked about that window, we were asked about the other window too. Can you just eyeball it and say I think they are I feel like they're very very similar Just in case we'll do the wit there that was 48 on the other one, so At least we're not doing with the manual anymore. That was so difficult. I think it's catching on there one thing But if you get it I may have mentioned that one round because this one's saying 27 so it may be closer to 28 rather than 48. Okay. Okay, but again Would it be easier if I put my hand right here? Yeah Okay, so it is 48 48. I must be hitting on it. I think that's what was happening because I was seeing the light pop up there So yeah, 48 is what we're looking at there in terms of window width, which is the same as the other Okay What's next any other questions for us If not, that's fine, we just want you to have a chance to explore these rooms and I Don't know. So you were a first-year student. What just two years ago Yes, and did you know everybody or did you meet people? I Graduated from school to have one other person coming here. We were not friends. Yes Hang out So I just chose to get involved on campus. So I got involved in student government And now I am the daytime chair for university programs. So finding things like thatology involved a new friends that you'll have for the rest of your life You can also do that through pick one. So we've all I know housing's been advertising pick one So if you want to be involved in national residents all honorary or an RHH You definitely check that out and pick that as your pick one that you love service events But you can also choose university programs There you go. Yeah, the nice thing is that you can choose that before you even arrive on campus and just get plugged in With the community before you even arrive it and this is a great community by itself But then there's lots of little smaller communities and you're gonna find yes, whatever place feels right for you a question from Emma Grace about can you measure the window in the normal room and we can I think we're done here in this in this room, and we'll go and turn off the light and Probably the next people entering here are gonna be the actual residents. So good for you You've got the key. Yes All right Okay, I don't think I locked up that other room so we can go in there and we can measure the window in 141 Right 48 plus 48 maybe Do you need me? Yeah, my hand Okay 81 inches across Yeah, 81 inches is what we got in the measurement there. You want to go ahead and give height? I think 56 or some of what it was last time 56 okay Great. Yeah, and I would say if you're looking at if you're looking at attention rod to create curtains I Would highly recommend you you experience how dark they can get first. Yeah, rather than mess with attention rod Now decorative elements up along the top would be really nice, but they get pretty dark I think it's surprising that they're not blackout level without a doubt not blackout level, but they are And if these do not work they usually do like we keep them in good repair But if they do not work just contact us to fix it. We'll fix it for you like that's that's our duty is to fix those and keep Them working for you Okay, well great. Well, thank you so much for all the wonderful questions and thank you for your time to Measuring stuff for us. Do you mind waving us out? Yeah