Campus ambassadors help students find their way
During a busy and crowded first week of classes, many students are left puzzled, not knowing where to go on campus to take a student ID or if classes are available, forced to play a game of “Where’s Waldo?” with their class schedules.
Fortunately help is just a few steps and a question or two away.
Tables are set all over campus with students and faculty ready to help anyone out. “We’ll be here until around 6 p.m. every day,” Bryan Martinez, 19, history major, said. “We’ll be doing this for the rest of the week.”
“Mostly students are asking where should they go, where’s the bookstore and where can they check if classes are available,” Rebecca Cobb, director of student development, said. “We even have some students around campus dressed in blue robes to remind people to file for graduation in the fall by March 3.”
Martinez said the question he was most frequently asked Tuesday was the location of a certain class. “People kept asking me where Room 33 was,” he said. “There was a lot of confusion about that since not many people know that it is the Fitness Center because it just opened.”
Janelle Miller, 19, nursing major also worked as a walk-around, not only helping students where to go but guiding them to the class as well. “I was helping students find their way to their classes.”
Even though students ask many questions, some repetitive, Miller enjoys her job as a student ambassador.“I enjoy doing the job,” Miller said.