Hello everyone!

If you visited the admissions office this summer, you most likely had a campus tour led by one of our six wonderful Summer Interns. They have been very busy in the office these past few weeks! In addition to giving tours to prospective students and families, they are all keeping themselves busy answering e-mails and writing letters to those of you who have expressed an interest in St. Lawrence. You can see some of our interns hard at work below. They even keep tallies on a poster of how many e-mails and letters they have written to students throughout the summer!

If you have questions about SLU, don’t hesitate to e-mail one of our interns or your admissions counselor.

Our interns also facilitated an Online Chat last week (and have another one on the 19^th of August.) We had several rising high school seniors log on and chat with our interns about everything from campus life to athletics to different majors and minors offered. If you can’t make it to campus for a visit, try to make it to one of our chats! It is the best way to get a current student’s perspective on their St. Lawrence experience without actually visiting campus. We will be having online chats throughout the Fall. Check the website frequently for updated times.

We do manage to have some fun around here – at the end of July we had an office-wide barbecue! There is a barbecue pit on campus (which was donated by the Class of 2005 as their senior gift to the university) next to the senior townhouses and the golf course. The barbecue pit is a great place for students to take a break from the Dining Halls on campus and enjoy the nice weather.

You can see in this picture Caitlin Malloy (center),one of our six interns, brought a book on Astrology and read all of our horoscopes once we finished eating.

Here are some more photos we took during the barbecue (you can see the senior townhouses in the background):

Last week, I took our six interns to Ottawa for the day! Due to its close proximity to campus, our students, faculty and staff frequently pay visits to Ottawa. (It only takes 1.5 hours to get to downtown Ottawa from Canton—you will need a passport or a birth certificate to cross the border). If you attend St. Lawrence, I can guarantee at least one of your classes will involve a field trip to Ottawa.

Here is a picture of our six interns in a St. Lawrence van (which student groups can also rent our for trips) on the way to Ottawa:

If you have not been to Ottawa, it is a “must do” if you visit campus and have time to make the jaunt. As you can see in the pictures, we hit the highlights of the city, visited Parliament Hill, The Canadian Museum of Civilization, and had a great dinner in the bustling Byward Market.

For dessert, we treated ourselves to “Beaver Tails” – a Canadian specialty! They are delicious – fried dough shaped like a beaver’s tail and topped with anything you’d like…but the classic beaver tail has maple syrup and chocolate on top. Read Blake Carbone's blog for more highlights of our trip!

That’s all for now…be sure to take some time out to relax before school starts!

-- John