Is it me, or wouldn’t a tour guide going on and on about their personal experiences while standing in front of a building you’re not going to see inside, just make the tour longer than necessary? Similarly, politely answering, “I don’t know the answer to that” and moving on would have been music to my ears on a hot day like the ones we’re experiencing right now.
A walking tour, IMO, is just to give an idea of the physical layout of the college and an opportunity to see where the child will be spending most of their hang-out time. The student guide isn’t an expert on every aspect of the school and different guides bring different levels of familiarity with a complicated enterprise like Wesleyan University and willingness to get personal with a few dozen strangers. Sounds like a lot of these questions should have been asked at the info session or during a panel discussion involving students; not when you’re trying to cover a hundred acres of physical plant (which is literally the case at Wesleyan) with two or three groups following close behind.
