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Official UPL Building Tour Guide

The UPL gives tours of the building/department to many prospective undergraduate students that come to visit campus. Those students are usually directed here by a prof/advisor from the department to get a 'student perspective'.

There isn't a list of things you need to say, but a nice tour generally addresses the following: (Note, it follows a sort of format that walks around the first floor, starting in UPL and walking over by 1240 to loop back around to UPL - with a stop by the CSL labs if they're interested).

Introduction / General

  • Name, hometown, year in school
    • Ask theirs and give yours.
  • Which schools (if any) are they looking at?
    • If you know a bit about those schools, give an honest comparison.
  • The prospective student's interests (inside and outside of school)
    • Do they happen to know what subfield of CS they enjoy?
  • What is your background (what CS classes have you taken)
  • Overall UW-Madison experiences.
    • Merits of CS being in L&S vs Engineering (Like most other Unis).
  • Discuss your jobs/internships/research experiences.
    • Talk about which companies recruit at UW heavily.

UPL

  • Describe the UPL.
  • What we offer.
  • What hardware/computers we have.
  • What people work on.
  • What events we do.
  • Where past coords end up working (we're everywhere!).

Main Lobby

  • CS Building is actually 3 buildings glued together.
  • Used to be Computer Science AND Statistics building, now just CS.
  • What makes CS at Madison different from other schools.
    • Second CS department in US (maybe world?). Quite Theoretical. In L&S.
  • What you like about Madison as a city.

CS 1240

  • Note: this room may be locked; if so just talk in the hallway assuming you won't be disturbing a class.
  • Discuss intro CS classes (e.g. 301, 302, 367)
  • What projects have you worked on inside and outside of class?
  • Some interesting events have taken place in 1240?
    • Hackathons, Tech Talks, Etc.

Conclusion

  • Tell them to add UW Madison UPL on facebook or give them your email/link to UPL website.
  • Show them the way out if they don't know, you'd be surprised how often they get lost in the building.