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bedlamsbardBack from New Orleans. LOVED IT. I loved Tulane, I loved New Orleans, and I loved Louisiana. All three of them have such vivacity and personality that it's instantly charming, but that charm isn't just surface charm -- it catches and it holds. Tulane and New Orleans are both so unique and beautiful.
I spent a lot of time comparing Tulane to Wellesley, since my experience at Wellesley was the only comparable one I have, and Wellesley kept coming up short. The Honors Weekend at Tulane was run very smoothly (and they fed us very well); I had the opportunity to listen to speeches by members of the faculty that included the assistant director of admissions, the head of the Honors Program, and the president of the university, as well as two professors. During dinner, prospective students were able to sit with various members of the faculty; I talked with two English professors, one of whom was the head of the Newcomb College Institute, the other of which was a creative writing professor. And to give you an idea of how much I like Tulane's creative writing program, let me tell you this: Tulane is the only school that I'm considering taking an English degree from. Out of ten schools.
The second day, my mom and I ate breakfast at Bruff Commons, Tulane's dining hall, and wandered around campus. We were at the Newcomb Institute, which is specifically for undergrad women, for a long time, talking to the women there, and the Newcomb Institute, from what I could tell, encompasses everything that attracted me to Wellesley: women for women (I am becoming a little bit of a rabid feminist in my old age, you see). I sat in on an anthro class and talked to the professor afterwards.
The thing about Tulane is that it's apparently really easy to double-major; thirty percent of their students do it. (One student I met had a double major in, of all things, neuroscience and classical studies.) I'm thinking anthro and creative writing, or physics and creative writing. I really like Tulane. I like it a lot. There's, like, a 90% chance I'll go there next year.
We also went on a couple of tours. We went on a ghost tour of the French Quarter, which was awesome, as well as a city tour of New Orleans and a tour of the Honey Island swamp.
I spent a lot of time comparing Tulane to Wellesley, since my experience at Wellesley was the only comparable one I have, and Wellesley kept coming up short. The Honors Weekend at Tulane was run very smoothly (and they fed us very well); I had the opportunity to listen to speeches by members of the faculty that included the assistant director of admissions, the head of the Honors Program, and the president of the university, as well as two professors. During dinner, prospective students were able to sit with various members of the faculty; I talked with two English professors, one of whom was the head of the Newcomb College Institute, the other of which was a creative writing professor. And to give you an idea of how much I like Tulane's creative writing program, let me tell you this: Tulane is the only school that I'm considering taking an English degree from. Out of ten schools.
The second day, my mom and I ate breakfast at Bruff Commons, Tulane's dining hall, and wandered around campus. We were at the Newcomb Institute, which is specifically for undergrad women, for a long time, talking to the women there, and the Newcomb Institute, from what I could tell, encompasses everything that attracted me to Wellesley: women for women (I am becoming a little bit of a rabid feminist in my old age, you see). I sat in on an anthro class and talked to the professor afterwards.
The thing about Tulane is that it's apparently really easy to double-major; thirty percent of their students do it. (One student I met had a double major in, of all things, neuroscience and classical studies.) I'm thinking anthro and creative writing, or physics and creative writing. I really like Tulane. I like it a lot. There's, like, a 90% chance I'll go there next year.
We also went on a couple of tours. We went on a ghost tour of the French Quarter, which was awesome, as well as a city tour of New Orleans and a tour of the Honey Island swamp.
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Date: 2008-03-14 04:37 am (UTC)sorry, i really don't want to make you not want to go to the school, I SWEAR! i just wish people had warned me about the weather when I moved to iowa my first year, because i knew it would be cold, but i had no idea what it was really going to be like
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Date: 2008-03-14 04:56 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-03-14 05:00 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-03-14 06:12 am (UTC)The advice from our tour guide was to invest in an umbrella and rainboots for hurricane season, because NOLA gets a lot of rain then. *nods emphatically*
*grins*
Date: 2008-03-15 01:53 am (UTC)- Your VP
Re: *grins*
Date: 2008-03-17 12:28 am (UTC)