<p>Anybody find them slightly annoying? Yesterday I was walking into the dining hall and a tour group was coming out and when I was walking out 10 minutes later, another tour group walks in! And I was walking back from my geology class and I see 5 groups standing out in the middle of campus. I'm going to join a group one day and ask random questions for fun haha just kidding</p>
<p>I’m a tour guide…so no…not really. But we have specific times. There are tours offered at 10am and 2pm Monday-Friday, and the groups generally aren’t more than 2-3 families…though one time in February when the NY schools had the week off for break, I gave a tour to about 40 people.</p>
<p>You know it’s bad when you know the gym and library speeches by heart just by hearing them over and over and over again.</p>
<p>I love college tours - though I don’t know the perspective from college students. One of the things I would like to do at Ohio State is be a tour guide.</p>
<p>i HATE them. My school does about 10 familys at a time and then they act like they own the place and get in the way. One time they showed up at our cafitieria, and the staff wasn’t alrearted before hand >< it was a mess.</p>
<p>i followed one around the other day while waiting for the library to open haha. i think they’re funny.</p>
<p>I don’t mind them too much. In my experience, they’re not that obnoxious or intrusive. But if they do annoy you, make sure you don’t complain about it in front of them! If they get the impression that students at your school are rude and irritable, they’re less likely to go there.</p>
<p>^ Well, if they’re obnoxious, intrusive, and annoying maybe it would be best if that particular group of students did not attend. :p</p>
<p>50 pts if you hit a tour while playing campus golf!</p>
<p>I actually want to be a campus tour guide, along with other things that involve speaking to groups of people in a similar fashion. There are tours year round, but now the charter buses are coming and they are filled with prospective students.</p>
<p>@ nervoussenior: True that. But the students themselves may not be obnoxious. True, large groups can be loud and annoying to navigate around, but that’s because they’re in groups. If that’s the case, it’s not the students’ fault and we should try not to be annoyed with them. </p>
<p>However, if the individual students in a group are being obnoxious, by all means, go with WhiteMule’s suggestion. ^.^</p>
<p>Tour season? Here at USC, it’s tour season all year long! Must be the great weather…</p>
<p>Yeah, I find them a little annoying sometimes. The groups here are always pretty big, and my dorm is the one that all the groups come through.</p>
<p>I don’t really see many. Maybe my school isn’t that popular for tours, but when I do see them they aren’t a problem. I don’t think they have time to enter many buildings on our campus, so they never cause congestion</p>
<p>I see them a lot. I’m always tempted to whisper “don’t do it, get out of here while you still can” to people. I like my school though, so I won’t.</p>
<p>Since my dorm is new, my school loves to show it off. They always end up on my floor which is on the 9th. One weekend I was trapped in my room because there was a lot of parents in the hallway and they were were looking at the room across from my door. vI waited for an hour.</p>
<p>Wow, I have to say, that would be a bummer constantly have tour groups in your dorm.</p>
<p>@ transfernkid: Wow, they were there for an hour? When I saw dorms on college tours, it was like in, then out, really fast. We probably didn’t even spend five minutes looking at the example dorm room, let alone an hour. Wow.</p>
<p>well at some bigger schools, one tour slot may mean many groups since there are so many prospective students</p>
<p>There’s always tour groups at my school. During the rest of the year its mostly Asian families in massive tour buses that come though.</p>
<p>the parents ended up having a discussion within themselves about their children and then talking to the girl across the hall about her experiences. There was about 50 of them including the children some decided to carry their siblings also. All of them asked their questions and finally left.</p>