Honors weekend in March

fallenchemist
Tue, 22 Mar 2011 14:19:12 +0000

To be fair to Tulane and all schools, they probably hold back on assigning profs to sections for exactly this reason. Word gets around, fairly or unfairly, about which prof is “easy” or which is “funny” or whatever. If they then indicated which profs were in which sections from the start, it would be at least as unpalatable to the students that registered later as the current system. I think you can see from the administration’s point of view there is no good answer here, someone is going to feel screwed either way.

With regard to the 8 AM Spanish, lol. I hear that. As long as he can make everything else work out in his schedule, he can probably change it later. Someone correct me if I am wrong on this, but I think he ought to be able to do it online just about anytime, not in one hour in August. I thought that was one of the benefits of being in the honors program. If you are thinking of going to Orientation, that would be another opportunity. If you need some help in using the online scheduler, PM me.

It all sounds very positive overall. No school is perfect of course. God knows Tulane has things that could be better, and that is not even a negative comment really. There are limited funds, as there are at all schools, even Harvard, although obviously some have more to work with than others. Tulane is actually in really good shape, but they can’t just blink and build all new dorms. Even if there were funds, they need to have a place for students to sleep while a new one is being built, if one were to tear down Monroe, for example. That’s one of the unfortunate things about having little free space on campus, at least enough free space to put up a whole new dorm which then substitutes for another you are tearing down, especially one the size of Monroe. The dorm they are building now was one of the last spaces left in the dorm area of Tulane. They must have a plan though, because the goal is to have all the dorms be the Residential College set-up, like Wall and the new one, within 15 years.

Anyway, my last comment (for now) is that while I can definitely see how a visitor might get the feeling there are “extremes” in terms of party/not party types, I would think that is because you were there only there 24 hours so there really wasn’t a chance to see any depth or get to know many people. I think like gabby says, the reality is that many, probably most, are actually in fact in-between these extremes most of the time.