<p>Tulane has had a ton of construction for the last 10+ years. It has new dorms, a new Business school building, a new Biology Lab building, a new student University Center, a new Baseball stadium, ect. It’s a campus improvement process and unfortunately current students always bare the brunt of the nuisance while enjoying few of the spoils. </p>
<p>The pile driving will most certainly be done by the time next fall rolls around. The question is what will the next construction noise be. 
My guess is that it won’t be any where near as bad as pile driving can be. Heck, they could even be done with the building. </p>
<p>I’m not sure what year you are, but I know the dorms get much better as you go up in your class standing. One of the reasons is that the people that cause problems find that they can REALLY raise hell if they get an apartment off campus where there are zero RA’s. </p>
<p>My hope about the ‘fire code violations’ is that the building you are referring to is brick and therefore won’t catch on fire. I wouldn’t recommend testing that theory but I doubt there’s any cause for concern if it is brick or stone.</p>
<p>One last note about dorms. They are a scam. But they are a scam everywhere. In the same way car dealers make very little profit selling you a car but make tons on the repairs and maintenance, universities make money by charging premium rates for premium real estate. They then stack you like sardines in concrete bunkers. </p>
<p>If you look at the expense of hiring a professor, support staff, add in the electricity (heating and cooling being the bulk), property taxes, campus upkeep, some research done without the aid of grants, and a few unprofitable sports, many universities would barely break even. Room and board services offered to students offer prime location for students to live while providing amazing margin for the school. It’s a give and take. You don’t have to ‘take it’ but you will have to walk farther to class if you don’t. It might be worth it to try living off campus for a semester.</p>