Ambassadors are some of the biggest liars on campus

University Ambassadors try to know just about everything there is to know about USC. People sometimes assume that their tour guides add lots of fluff to their stories or follow a script that was given to them by some higher power, but we actually love to create our own experience. Each tour is different, and you never give the same one twice. It’s all about being “positively honest” with your guest. So students that try and interrupt our tours and give their opinions… Bye Felicia, your services are not needed.

Every Ambassador is in the Honors College and Greek life

Although these groups are well-represented in our organization, there really are #nolimits on who you might find in the Visitor Center on any given day. The entire idea behind University Ambassadors is that we represent our entire university. You can find anyone from a senior, student body president, all the way down to a first semester freshmen, who barely knows their way around campus. We strive to represent all that is good about our school, and it is shown through the multitude of organizations, races, and states that we represent.

All Ambassadors do is give tours

Have you ever been to the Visitor Center? Do you see that person answering the phone, or giving directions to someone who is wildly lost on campus? Those people are University Ambassadors. Giving tours is only a small fraction of what we do. You don’t realize how much you love your school until you are stocking fridges full of water and drafting guest itineraries on a Thursday at 4:30 in the afternoon.

Ambassadors = Orientation Leaders

This is probably the most frustrating thing for both parties. No one likes to be incorrectly labeled, as we perform very different (but equally important) jobs. That being said, if you see someone giving a 90 minute tour in 100 degree heat, that's an Ambassador.

Ambassadors are only in it for the money and swag

I know this isn’t the case at all schools, but at USC we don’t get paid; we work on a volunteer basis. However, that doesn’t stop us from receiving hundreds of applications each year. As a University Ambassador, you get paid in experience and friendship. There is nothing better than knowing that you might have helped someone make one of the biggest decisions of their life. And after all, where else are you going to learn how to simultaneously walk backwards and answer great questions about parking permits and meal plans?