Meet Jane, Senior Fellow Extraordinaire
Welcome to Admissions! My name is Jane, and when I’m not an admissions fellow, I enjoy being a senior English major who also enjoys rugby, theater, walks in the arb, and El Tri.
Welcome to Admissions! My name is Jane, and when I’m not an admissions fellow, I enjoy being a senior English major who also enjoys rugby, theater, walks in the arb, and El Tri.
Welcome to Admissions! My name is Jane, and when I’m not an admissions fellow, I enjoy being a senior English major who also enjoys rugby, theater, walks in the arb, and El Tri. I’ve become very good at introducing myself this summer, because when you’re an admissions fellow you end up introducing yourself at least 3–1,000,000 times a day. My day begins when I wander into Scoville at around 8:00 in the morning — the new building is so nice!
After grabbing a cup of coffee, I’ll head upstairs to our work station. As you can see, we are a very serious bunch. My work tasks include answering emails in the admission inbox (if you email admissions@carleton.edu, you’re emailing me!). You would be surprised how often people think we’re the Carleton University in Canada!
One of the bests parts of the job is I get my own business cards!
A favorite part of my day is lunch — because we get to eat together as a group! Sometimes we’ll visit the library, or go for a walk, or meet up with some of the other Carls on campus for the summer.
Another admissions task is leading tours! Learning how to walk backward was not easy for me. We also lead interviews, which is why we have to bring two outfits to the office — some fancy dress for interviewing prospective students and more casual clothes for leading tours! We also will usually bring a sweater, because the office AC is cold!
A final perk of being admissions fellow is not only the incredible amount of free food that is in the office at any given time, but the people I work with. From my other fellows to everyone else who works in the office, it’s been wonderful to work with them all!
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