I Get to Work with Them Every Day

Yesterday, some of my staff at Oregon Institute of Technology put together an end-of-the-year picnic at Moore Park for our current and incoming Ambassadors, the students who give campus tours, help with office tasks, phone prospective students and do lots of other things for us. Marleigh and Angela gave out some funny awards and then we played a game of kickball.

The whole family came with me, though after dinner they all went home except for Jordan, who stayed for kickball. It was the staff and their families vs. the Ambassadors, a hard fought battle that went into extra innings and even featured some minor sports-related injuries.

When we got into the car afterwards, Jordan commented, "That was a lot of fun; those are fun people."

I said, "I get to work with them every day."

"I want to go to OIT with those kind of people," Jordan responded. And I thought, "You know you have a good admissions team when a high schooler says things like that."