High-school junior Bridget Rushing had long looked forward to seeing “dream school” Columbia University’s Manhattan campus. A digital slideshow of snapshots narrated over Zoom from a student tour guide’s off-campus bedroom wasn’t exactly what she had in mind.
“It’s a difficult way to feel really engaged,” said Bridget’s mom, Jessica Bradley Rushing, who watched Columbia’s PowerPoint deck alongside her daughter last month from their South Shore, Mass., kitchen. “You don’t really get, you know, the atmosphere of New York City during a virtual tour on your laptop,” Ms. Bradley Rushing said. The younger Ms. Rushing, for her part, sees some benefits in Zoom tours, finding they make it easy to ask questions.
The spring tradition of school-by-school cross-country road trips is under way, and some families with juniors in high school are finding novel approaches to get a sense of campus. Some are taking Zoom tours, while others are experimenting with more creative university offerings, like exploring campus mock-ups in the videogame Minecraft, tasting their way through college-inspired cookbooks and strapping on Oculus headsets for virtual-reality tours.
Columbia has offered on-demand virtual tours for years on its website, but last summer the school introduced live virtual campus tours, hosted by current students, as a result of the pandemic. “Prospective families have found them to be incredibly engaging and informative,” a University spokesperson said.
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If it's virtual learning what good is a tour you will still be at home.
No, I can't. Yet I'm paying for something…
Are safe spaces, privilege confession booths, and perpetual protests part of the tour?
We enjoyed a great safe campus tour outdoors last week at UTKnoxville. There is no reason schools shouldn’t be doing in person tours right now. Kudos to Tennessee.
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Why show a virtual tour of a campus if they won't be on campus. You might as well show them 2001 A Space Odyssey as it matches the reality of the many thousands of dollars they'll take from clueless people looking for a job credential without learning anything real.
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That's cool. Now if anyone asks I can say I went to college in Mine Craft .
Why bother visiting when you may not be able to study there in person anyway?
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I just moved to your city, who wouldn't mind showing me interesting places?
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Enough of this bullshit. We as students are tired of this hypocrisy. Lift the lockdowns!
Why not for the whole program?
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