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[LAUGH] This is my, these are my dancing skills.
Hello, my name is Hikima, I'm actually one of the community linked coordinators for
admissions.
And right now I'm actually heading over to give a virtual tour.
So come on, let's go.
So since the pandemic, we're not doing any more in person tours,
all of our tours are through Zoom.
So out of the 12 coordinators that do work in admissions,
every day we give a it's about a 45 to an hour tour.
I don't just give tours.
I'm actually the community linked coordinator for
the admission student diversity board.
So we are actually a subset of admissions and
we're more focused on highlighting and increasing diversity here on campus.
My job is just to highlight all the diverse organizations that we have here on
campus and show them to prospective and current students.
All right, so now we're gonna walk and meet up with Jillian,
one of the other admissions coordinators, so we can get started on our tour.
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We actually changed our tour route this year,
before we used to start on Bay State Road.
By 233, which is the admissions building.
And since we don't have to walk with people anymore,
we decided to start in the Western portion of campus so that we can kind of show,
prospective students and families, different parts of BU that we never really
got to show, when they were here in person, which is really cool.
So I think the really big difference between giving tours in person and
now doing virtual tours is I used to have a lot of jokes on my in person tours and
I can't really do as much now, which kind of sucks.
I thought that was my favorite part, but
I think giving virtual tours has been really interesting.
Because people are more open to asking questions, which is really nice,
because I really love being able to answer as many questions as I can.
And a lot of the time people are a little more shy in person.
And I think it's really cool because now we are able to show more parts of campus.
Good morning.
How are you today?
All right, so we're just about to start our tour with Jillian as our wonderful
camera woman, and I'll talk to you guys afterwards.
>> Peace out.
>> [LAUGH] >> Hi guys,
we're gonna give it a minute while everyone settles in.
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>> [LAUGH] That's really interesting on Commonwealth Avenue,
which is this street right here.
This is a little bit more unique than our other colleges.
And right now to our right, [LAUGH] >> [LAUGH]
>> Is the fitness and recreation center.
Don't forgot we have a Q&A box, so feel free to drop those in.
And if we look right, left we have the infamous Kenmore Square down here.
I want to thank you all for
taking this time out of your early morning to hang out with Jillian and I.
Have a great day.
>> Bye guys.
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>> All right, so overall I think the tour went well.
It was amazing.
It's my first time touring with Jillian and we had so much fun.
We got to joke around, show our eight lovely
viewers what was going on at Boston University this morning.
And yeah hopefully we'll tour again.
Sadly this is our last tour for the semester, but
next semester we will be right back at it.
If you're interested in admissions or if you're interested in giving tours just
like Jillian and I did, we are looking for more tour guides.
The applications for this semester have closed.
However, next semester, we're gonna have a whole new application and you can apply.
And also if you wanna learn more about the admission student diversity board,
you can feel free to apply as well.
We're always looking for new ASDB members.
So I got my coffee.
I'm back at my apartment.
And I'm just going to get ready to start the rest of my day.
Thank you guys for following me along and I hope to see you all soon.
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