Fresh blood!

Working in the admissions office makes me excited about next year! I am so happy to have a role (albeit a small one) in the enrollment process. I love filling enveloppes for prospective students - because I know how excited I was to get letters from the university last year, and it's an amazing feeling to know that I get to partake in that experience for someone else. In addition to keeping busy with mailouts, many of the student employees in the admissions department have had the opportunity to give tours of the campus to prospective students who come to visit the university. The excitement of touring is epitomized during Preview Days when prospective students and their families come from all over the world to see the campus, sit in on class taught by a Quest Tutor, and to meet current (and charming) Quest students. I acted as a tour guide at our Preview Day earlier this month , and I really appreciated talking to both students and parents. I still can't believe that we are going to have more students next year! I have gotten so used to only having 80 students on campus, that next year is going to be an interesting experience. Although the cafeteria lineup is going to get considerably longer, the prospective students that I have met so far reassure me at least I will have new friends to wait in line with. (p.s. If you are interested in coming to our upcoming Preview Day on March 29th, check out the Quest Website at www.questu.ca)

Other than that, spring break is coming up and my friends and I have planned an epic adventure into the wilderness of British Columbia! We are going to be spending close to a week hiking the Juan de Fuca trail, and I really hope we are going to be prepared enough. We went to Mountain Equipment Coop last week and spent wayyy too much money, and now we are desperately gathering camping supplies and making meal plans. I have come to the conclusion that it is going to be a week of soggy sleeping bags, lack of hygiene and sore muscles. However, I am looking forward to roasting weenies and telling ghost stories with some of my best friends in one of the most beautiful places Canada has to offer.
If we make it back alive, I promise to post pictures of our "Into the Wild" experience.

All the best,

Caro