{"618179":{"#nid":"618179","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Sign Up for a Graduate Student Campus Tour","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EJason Hirschey knows choosing a graduate school means choosing a home. That\u0026rsquo;s why he became a Georgia Tech campus tour guide.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;The tours help you make sure you\u0026rsquo;ll like living here,\u0026rdquo; said Hirschey, a second-year Ph.D. student in Mechanical Engineering. \u0026ldquo;Since they\u0026rsquo;re campuswide, they show how all of Tech and Atlanta fit in with your work and lifestyle.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAlthough prospective Ph.D. students have always had an opportunity to visit the schools they\u0026rsquo;re interested in, there wasn\u0026rsquo;t a similar opportunity for prospective master\u0026rsquo;s students at Tech. So, last February, the Office of Graduate Studies began offering these tours to give all prospective graduate students a chance to see Tech\u0026rsquo;s resources and learn about living on campus.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe tours kick off with a 30-minute information session, given by Nazanin Tork, assistant director of Graduate Studies. During the session, participants have a chance to learn more about topics including things to do in Atlanta and graduate student organizations on campus.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ENext up, is a two-hour walking tour of campus with current graduate students who serve as guides. Once the tour has ended, visitors can visit the schools they\u0026rsquo;re interested in attending.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;We can tell you the best times to go to the gym or what you can go to the health center for,\u0026rdquo; Hirschey said. \u0026ldquo;Sure, learning about Tech on the website is great. But, on the tour, you actually get to interact with students and see the campus. Also, as tour guides, we\u0026rsquo;re available to talk to you about things like living in Atlanta, the cost of living, commuting \u0026mdash;\u0026nbsp;all those little nuances of daily life.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ETours will be offered now through the end of April and will begin again in February 2020. To sign up for a session, visit \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/grad.gatech.edu\/info-sessions\u0022\u003Egrad.gatech.edu\/info-sessions.\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EIf you\u0026#39;re thinking of attending graduate\u0026nbsp;school at Georgia Tech, campus tours are now being offered.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"If you\u0027re thinking of attending graduate\u00a0school at Georgia Tech, campus tours are now being offered."}],"uid":"34838","created_gmt":"2019-02-20 15:34:08","changed_gmt":"2019-02-21 15:26:41","author":"asiebold3","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2019-02-20T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2019-02-20T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"618178":{"id":"618178","type":"image","title":"Grad Student Tours 2019","body":null,"created":"1550676707","gmt_created":"2019-02-20 15:31:47","changed":"1550676707","gmt_changed":"2019-02-20 15:31:47","alt":"","file":{"fid":"235305","name":"DSC_0013.JPG","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/DSC_0013_0.JPG","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/DSC_0013_0.JPG","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":537248,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/DSC_0013_0.JPG?itok=IUiTTthJ"}}},"media_ids":["618178"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/grad.gatech.edu\/info-sessions","title":"Graduate Student Tours"}],"groups":[{"id":"221981","name":"Graduate Studies"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"}],"keywords":[{"id":"1808","name":"graduate students"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:nazanin.tork@grad.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ENazanin Tork\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nOffice of Graduate Studies\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}