<p>Glad you have arranged to see a counselor. Saying that all the students do is drink is not true. Maybe in your dorm , but I dont’ believe it is true for all of the student body.</p>
<p>Wait, can I just say that registration is absurd. Literally cannot get one of 3 prerequisites for my major. What is going on? This will be my third consecutive semester not being able to register for an upper-division econ class. Sigh.</p>
<p>Tell me this is the twilight zone. If I wanted to graduate in over four years, I would have chosen a state school.</p>
<p>OptimalDV, or really anyone else, any tips for freshman year registration? I thought since I was honors that I would be able to register early, but when I emailed Tulane they told me I’d be getting my advisor assignment at the end of may like all the other freshman.</p>
<p>AMPH, I am an honors freshman, with plenty of credits placing me near the top of freshman/rising sophomore registration. You have no preference for registration as an honors student. I recently spoke with Tom Luongo, Dean of the Honors Program, and he told me there is no plan to give that sort of advantage to honors students in the future. Good luck with registration.</p>
<p>I seem to remember my s registering when he went to an honors student weekend on campus. Am I wrong?</p>
<p>Optimal, my son is a junior this year. He still had to take a class he didn’t want, and had classes at 8 AM and 6PM with no choice in the matter because nothing else was open.
When I took my younger son for a visit this month, the student panel insisted that there wasn’t any problem registering for classes and if you were really stuck, to beg the prof and he would let you in. Maybe try that since they were insisting that it wasn’t a concern.</p>
<p>In a school of 14,000 (I think??) it’s sort of ridiculous to say that “everybody” is doing anything.</p>
<p>JoBenny - the number of full time undergrads is closer to 6,000 but your statement is still correct. The larger number you sometimes see includes grad, law school and med school students as well as the people enrolled in “night school”. Tulane has one of the larger continuing education efforts among private schools.</p>
<p>AMPH007 - you are an incoming freshman, correct? If so, you should have been able to get priority registration as an incoming honors student. Check with the honors program office about it.</p>
<p>OptimalDV - What classes specifically are you having trouble getting?</p>
<p>FC I am an incoming freshman. I tried to find the honors weekend schedule on Tulane’s website and it was nowhere to be found, which is funny because I swear I was looking at it recently. But now I can’t find it. And from what I understood the honors kids got to sit down and talk about classes and scheduling but not actually register? I’m very confused as you can tell ha ha.</p>
<p>Well, I can only tell you what happened the last few years. It is always possible things have changed. But when my D went, she got a package with a code number or something like that inside, and that allowed her to get into the registration system and register any time after the Honors Weekend. Honors Weekends for this year are over, but here is a link to the page that talks about it. It contains another link to the pdf that has the details. Looks like they have added quite a bit to the Weekend from what I can see. [Tulane</a> Admission: Honors](<a href=“http://admission.tulane.edu/honorsweekend/]Tulane”>http://admission.tulane.edu/honorsweekend/)</p>
<p>My son attended the honors weekend in March and sat down with advisors and registered for his classes that afternoon. He was told that if he did not want to register that day, that he could register when he got home.</p>
<p>thank you, 4teenboys. So apparently that has not changed.</p>
<p>I emailed the director of the honors program and he told me that I would be able to register early, so I guess what the original person from the advising center that I emailed was wrong.</p>
<p>I like turtles.</p>
<p>about the beginning of this thread, I can completely relate to the OP because I’m possibly transferring form tulane.</p>
<p>what bothers me isnt tulanes drinking completely. it’s that at a medium sized school you really do feel left out of the “Tulane culture” when everyone but you (or so it seems) is at f&ms on a thursday night or boot happy hour on a friday. I also have found the going out scene to be more greek dominated than I would like. and this is coming from someone who does drink.</p>
<p>Short answer: join juggling club.
9pm on top of the parking garage Tuesdays and Thursdays, 9pm.
Bring chalk, a hackey sack, cards, and/or a frisbee. Ask about what the club is about, what we do, and come to the events. Bring a friend or two. </p>
<p>Clubs are the way out of frat culture. They can feel alienating at times, but just say,
“Hey, what do I want to do with people that isn’t what I’m doing right now?” Either grab some people and go do that, or join a club that’s doing it already. </p>
<p>GET. A. BIKE. This is not a question. You need one if you want to not be bored and miserable at Tulane. Come to McAlister at 3pm on Friday, ask where you might buy one. JC also rents them. </p>
<p>Look at the club list again. Want to watch anime, play video games, magic cards, read manga?
Play soccer, do kendo, run with people, frisbee, flag football?
Write about restaurants, music events, campus news? You don’t even need your own ideas - come to the Hulabaloo office at 7pm in the lower floor of the LBC.
Learn how to ballroom dance, I imagine with a bunch of charming and beautiful young people? E-mail <a href=“mailto:bwall@tulane.edu”>bwall@tulane.edu</a> about when they’re starting to teach a different dance for you to begin on. Been meaning to do this for a while myself.</p>
<p>Read a book from the library - take it to the LBC (which never closes).
This is always a good option. You don’t have to go out just because it’s Friday and that is what everyone else is doing. There is a book in there that is better than anyone you could be talking to. You just have to find it. </p>
<p>THIS IS A NEW ORLEANS. Land of dreams, dude. Get on your bike and go down to Frenchman. Go to music, theater, film shows.
[NOLADIY.ORG</a> - New Orleans Events, Bands, Venues](<a href=“http://noladiy.org/]NOLADIY.ORG”>http://noladiy.org/) is a decent enough place to start. </p>
<p>Read Gambit for local news and events. Here’s a list of 60 things that are going on just tonight: [Gambit</a> New Orleans News and Entertainment | Events](<a href=“http://www.bestofneworleans.com/gyrobase/EventSearch?neighborhood=1287922&page=4]Gambit”>http://www.bestofneworleans.com/gyrobase/EventSearch?neighborhood=1287922&page=4) All within biking distance 15mins-1hour.
Pick one, grab one friend, bike there. </p>
<p>Campus events are good. </p>
<p>OptimalDV - really imporant: set up a meeting with your major advisor. Do this at a bare minimum once a semester.
A lot of registration looks hard-set, but it really is not. Attend the first day of class, show enthusiasm, and you’re in.
If you do not have a major advisor yet: declare now, get one.
Freshmen should do this in their first week of school and meet with their major advisor the same week. Declaration locks you in to absolutely nothing. No cost, all gain. </p>
<p>You can do this. Don’t be afraid.</p>
<p>Nine Lives; Great suggestions, I might borrow some for son. It’s easy to miss things when there is so much going on, that my son asks me to email him anytime I see something that he might enjoy that he might miss. I know there was an Improv show Monday, some comedian on campus he wants to see tonight, there was a giant puppet show a few weeks back, there’s a drive in movie theater where you can watch movies on the roof (I think NineLives, you mentioned that one) he’s done a cemetery and ghost tour just like a tourist (found out something creepy about the ferns he spend the community service day pulling off tombs btw), he found some kind of an interactive play sometime back, etc… </p>
<p>There are tons of things to do, I think that might be part of OP’s problem, maybe too much so there’s not a lot doing any one thing, just a few people doing a lot of things so it’s harder maybe to find someone that you click with. So I’m going to say what mom’s just say. What did you like to do at home in high school? Odds are, somewhere on that campus is; a club or group, an event etc… with people doing those same things. Go, even if it’s by yourself, better yet, walk through your dorm, somewhere there is another person with nothing to do, ask them to come along, nothing fancy, just hey; I’m heading to whatever, want to join me. If you’ve got a plan in mind, that makes it easier for someone to tag along. There is where you’re going to meet people who you might click. Try something different too, you might find a new hobby or interest. </p>
<p>I know son was a little hesitant at first, he’d be talking with some people maybe he didn’t know too well, they would be heading off to something, and they’d say you’re welcome to come if you’d like or something along that line. He called me once and said he always was concerned that maybe they just asked him because he was there. I told him, it’s not like school where the mom says you have to ask everyone in the class to your party, they didn’t have to invite, so he needed to assume they extended the invitation because they wanted to and he should go. He went to school with the same core group of kids from 5k to 12th, which made making new friends a little more intimidating. </p>
<p>Don’t go to parties if you don’t like them. There are other people there who don’t party often or at all. I’d give it at least one more semester, freshman year is mostly about settling in and it takes some a little longer than others. However, if after another semester, you’re still not feeling the school, well, then if might be, it’s not the school for you. Don’t write it off till you’ve given it every chance and then make an adult decision, and if it has to be a state school, accept that’s what it is and make the best of it. It truly only matters that you get the education.</p>
<p>Hey, I’m a freshman at Tulane, and I totally relate to the thread-creator’s issue. Every college has a vibrant, strong party scene, but sometimes at Tulane it seems that that’s all the kids are interested in. What I’ve discovered second semester is that there are actually a LOT of kids here who are a little more down to earth, they’re just harder to find because they’re studying or are out doing cool things in the city. APO is a bunch of pretty chill kids, and judging by the newsletters of the juggling club, they seem to be the same. </p>
<p>I’ve had a pretty hard time making friends, which was never a problem in high school/random camps I went to every year. I fit in with my own small group, though, and really that’s what matters. As long as you have a few people, you fit in somewhere. Stay strong! You’re not alone.</p>
<p>I think that is pretty normal, actually. High school is a relatively enclosed environment where you have known at least some of the other students since kindergarten. Almost every university is more like a town, where you are much more likely to get have a lot of acquaintances and not as many really close friends. That is one reason sororities and fraternities had (and still have, although not as much as before) so much popularity. Most of the students I have known over the years have a relatively smaller circle of close friends compared to high school.</p>