In normal times, the campus tour is a big part of a college decision.

Every year, packs of high school students and their parents make their way across college

campuses trying to figure out how the images in the college brochure match up against reality.

You might get some students who are a little rowdy in the back, which is totally fine.

Junelkitt Baggan is a junior at Cal State University, Dominguez Hills, where she used to

actually lead those campus tours, and she loved it.

That whole feeling of, you know, being on campus and just being surrounded by everybody

there and that feel of the environment.

Her favorite stop was the library.

We'd walk into the library.

I would kind of talk about our coffee shop because like who else loves coffee, right?

I would actually describe how I would get coffee in our coffee shop, and then I'd go

upstairs to the third floor and bring my coffee.

It's this space where students could sit together and do homework and study.

The kind of place that is packed late at night during finals week or rather used to be.

Because of the pandemic, CSU, Dominguez Hills, it's mostly virtual this semester.

There are some exceptions for lab courses, of course, but in terms of using the library,

no one's really in there.

So it's empty.

I could imagine.

These days, Junelkitt Baggan does her studying at a desk in her childhood bedroom in Carson,

California.

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