Tour guides work virtually, pushing boundaries for admissions Since the pandemic rendered their work remote, Northwestern’s tour guides have been slowly adapting their work of introducing campus to prospective students. However, due to admissions’ fully virtual approach to outreach, their methods have entered completely new territory. NU tour guides such as Communication junior Samara Malik were sidelined once the pandemic hit. Her job only restarted in the summer when she began co-hosting online info sessions for prospective students to meet tour guides and other theater majors like herself. Since then, Malik has been working fewer hours and taken a reduction in pay, but she said she’s glad to be back at a job she thoroughly enjoys.