<p>I will check with my D about both the bugs and the noise. New Orleans is a warm weather city. It is just as jym says, you have to keep the place tidy or they will come in. Any school with a similar climate will have the same problem, although I guess if you let it get bad enough it will happen in any place, period.</p>
<p>I can only say that Zaichev’s comments are at the extreme end of negative comments I have heard. To echo jym again, these are dorms. Sure, some schools have newer dorms that are much nicer, most don’t, even some very presigious schools. Tulane is trying to get there. They have a 15 year plan to replace/upgrade a lot of the dorms and to have them all be residential college style. This, unfortunately, involves noise. I am sure it is very bad for my D, she is in Butler on the side where they are building. She hasn’t complained at all.</p>
<p>There is a point where it seems to me it is beyond constructive criticism (no pun intended) and it is more that a person just seems to be in the wrong place for them. I don’t know, but Tulane cannot possibly have ranked 10th in happiest students or whatever it was similar to that and be that bad about these things, at least as most people perceive it. I really am concerned that you seem so unhappy Zaichev. Tulane isn’t a fit for everybody, just like Harvard isn’t a fit for everybody, nor is UT-Austin nor UCLA…If you are not going to transfer I would really see a counselor and say exactly how you feel about these things. It isn’t healthy to be this down on things.</p>