Hi. My name's Maria Folio.
My name is Tatyana Slaton.
And we are both sophomores this year here at the University of Kentucky.
And today, we're going to show you around our dorm room.
So let's go.
So as soon as you walk into a dorm room
here at the University of Kentucky, you are met with a kitchen area.
And I am going to walk you through what we have personally in our kitchen area in our dorm room.
So first things first is when you walk into our dorm room,
we have a little shelving area.
We personally like it, our plates and our bowls and our silverware is right next to it
just to all kind of keep it organized here in the corner.
Next up, we have a toaster in our dorm room.
UK does have some regulations of what you can bring to a dorm room
like, for example,
I don't think you can have a toaster oven. Next up in our little sink area.
So interesting here, and it's really awesome that even though
we don't have like let's say a full fledged dishwasher, we do have a nice area
to wash your dishes and to do what we need to do for that, which is really nice.
Right next to the kitchen area, we actually, all rooms
have their own thermostat, which I love. Me and my roommate
love having the fan on when we want to, the heat on when we want to.
I think it only goes down to ... oh no, it goes down, it goes down.
And underneath the kitchen area we have all this cabinet space, which I love.
There's so much room for basically everything you need underneath here.
We have we personally have all our cleaning supplies right here which we love.
And we also have space for our food which we find really important.
We have space for trash bags.
We have space for
As you see, UK
have a lot of storage area, which is certainly very important
when you're coming into college for the first time
because you want to realize that you have enough space
for everything you need
and I find UK is actually really good and reliable about that.
Next up, going over from the kitchen area, personally,
we have our microwave and refrigerator right here in this little corner for us.
This is a pretty decent sized fridge.
I know a lot of students are worried about, will the fridge be big enough
for all my things.
We personally have never had a problem with it.
UK does not allow any extra fridges in their dorm rooms
so please do not bring one.
You have these regulations for a reason, guys.
So UK does, every dorm room has a little recycling bin,
which is awesome for those who like to recycle and that's important to them.
Trash cans.
You do have to buy your own trash cans when you have the UK.
I mean, you have enough space for whatever size trash cans you need.
It's never been a problem.
Next, we're going to move on
to the bathroom area, which is right
across from the little kitchen area of our dorm.
Here is your bathroom space clearly if I'm able to sit on it,
there's enough space for you and your roommate
to have a comfortable amount of room.
Both you and your roommate will have separate sinks.
Here is my side. Here's Maria's side.
You have plenty of cabinet space. You have your own cabinets
and two little cabinets right here.
And now, we're going to take you in to our bathroom.
So this is our bathroom.
A lot of two bedroom suites come with one shared bathroom.
And with the shared bathroom, there is a toilet as well as a shower.
And that's pretty much all of it comes with the with the bathroom.
So there's a few things you're going to want to have to get before you move in.
One is the trash can, also a toilet paper holder.
We just don't want our toilet paper around the ground.
We also have this cute little rug.
And one of the other things that we found out about the room
is that you're going to want to have to like get us some type of shower caddy
or additional shower storage just because we find
that there's not enough room for all the stuff that we have.
You'll have plenty of space for towels. We have to towel racks
right here and a large towel bar right here.
So leaving the common room area, we have your two bedrooms once again
in the two bedroom suite and me and Tatyana are going to
take you into our individual bedrooms so you can see what UK provides
and what we have done to our own dorm rooms.
So UK
actually provides some really good essentials
that you need to know about before entering a dorm room.
So the first thing UK provides is this full XL bed.
It's really awesome.
We have TempurPedic
mattresses, just saying. Just saying.
I personally wanted a little mattress pad, so I just added my own mattress pad,
my own sheets and my bedding, of course, which you have to provide yourself.
The actual mattress and the actual metal frame that it sits on
will be provided for you.
Okay.
So next up, the next thing UK provides is a desk right here for you.
It's awesome, because you have a place to study or I personally use it to get ready in the morning.
UK actually does provide a desk chair as well
so you do not need to worry about that.
So the next that UK provides are these two sets of drawers.
I use them to storage my pants,
storage my pajamas, some extra T-shirts and it's really nice
because there are four doors in total and a lot of students actually,
I know,
put these under your bed
because we have enough space under our beds, which is really nice.
I like to personally keep it on top because we are TVs
and I like to have a TV in my room.
But again, all up to you on how to organize your space, which is really cool.
They give you the furniture,
but you can customize your space, which I think is really awesome.
So next in this little corner area, I just have a full length mirror.
I have a trash can, I have my hat and I have my closet that UK gives us.
So I'm going to take you inside just to show you a little bit of storage area.
Do not mind all the clothes and the clutter and the mess, but I want to show you
all fully of how much space the UK gives you when coming to school.
If you're like me and have a little bit of a shopping addiction,
you will have plenty of space to store your clothes. Clearly
I don't need this many clothes, but I do.
And luckily UK gives me the space I need to storage all these clothes
plus, like I said, the two drawer sets they give us, which is really nice.
UK also does give a shelf right here which you can hang your clothes on.
You can put extra sort of hair even more close up top, but I
usually store clean sheets, clean towels, my laundry supplies, everything up here.
It's really nice that they have this shelf because again, more storage.
I feel like when we're coming to college, we all take as much storage as we can get
and I'm very thankful that UK gives us
enough provided space to do so.
Shall we move on to your room?
Yeah.
Hi, guys.
Welcome to my room.
And as you can see, me and Maria's rooms are pretty much polar opposites.
On the wall
we have some little decorations with some little wreaths.
I personally found out that I don't have like a much a lot of
like storage in here just because I'm like a shopaholic like her.
So I also hoard things too.
So I have a little storage box right here.
And I also decided to bring along a bookcase
that I just flipped upside down to give me some more room and put my TV up there, too.
And like Maria said earlier, some people decide to put their
dressers underneath their beds.
That's kind of what I decided to do.
I just put both my dressers
underneath my bed just to give me some more room around.
And I think the crown jewel of my room is probably like this bed space.
It's like the pictures really.
It's, it's very comforting.
So that concludes the end of our little dorm tour.
I hope we gave you a little bit of an inside book of what it's like
to live here on the University of Kentucky's campus.
Yeah, it's a pretty cool experience.
I definitely would say that
living on campus, you get like a lot more support than you would off campus.
You have RAs there to support you educationally, mentally.
So it's awesome being a short, walk to class.
It's right across from the Student Center,
and we like having just a short walk to downtown Lexington.
So there's are some little perks from our experience living on North Campus.
We lived on North Campus for both years.
Of course, there are benefits to living central or south campus,
but we can, of course, really only speak on living on North Campus.
We are thinking about making like a little dorm
room, essential videos of really what you need to bring yourself
to campus. Of course, we walked you through what the university provides,
but we feel like it'd be beneficial to know what you should bring
to the University of Kentucky when you come and live in the dorms.
If you have any specific questions on what it's like to live,
mainly on North Campus, because that's our expertise,
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