<p>My S is off at Honors Weekend at Tulane right now, and I'm looking forward to hearing about it! He made his final decision on Tulane last night and sent in his deposit, and I know he is very happy with his decision. </p>
<p>I hope he has more energy than me today, because I'm still sleep deprived from getting up at 3:30 am to get him to the airport...</p>
<p>Are you kidding? The only sleep he's likely to get is on the airplane, either way... I used to battle with my D to try to get her to bed before midnight (when she lived here) - now I get emails from her at 3 a.m. (and probably not because she is up early), but not too many at 11 a.m... </p>
<p>Over spring break she managed to book herself on a trip that required 4 legs (and one overnight in an airport, where I think she and a friend stayed up all night).</p>
<p>He'll have the time of his life...</p>
<p>Yeah a couple years back my son was complaining their intramual basketball teams record was horrendous because the games were too early - noon, and noone could get up that early. Kids think nothing about STARTING to party at midnight:-) Ah to be young again.</p>
<p>Just to update - heard from my son, and he is really enjoying his visit. He's sitting in on a couple classes this morning and had a great time yesterday. I think this weekend has made him feel very good about his choice of Tulane. The only negaitve thing he said was that the Honors dorm - Butler - "could be better." I know he is going to put in an application to Wall dormitory, but I'm thinking it would be good to have him in one of those two for his first year, then let him pick any other dorm for his sophmore year.</p>
<p>They're all pretty grim, Moonmaid. My son's an RA now, and I haven't even seen the room he's in, but I've seen his room in Butler and the one he had earlier in a suite, and none of them are the Ritz. What they ARE is the kid's own space--the first private "room of own's own," you know, even if he is sharing it. He won't care what it looks like if he's anything like my son. It'll be HIS, so it'll be great.</p>
<p>Congratulations to you and yours!</p>
<p>Grim is relative...</p>
<p>At one of the schools my D was interested in (at least until she saw the dorm room), I was even shocked by how grim it was (the facility was a bit old, but still...). I didn't expect the Ritz, but I couldn't imagine how two kids could have shared that space - and that was the one they showed us on the tour!</p>
<p>My D is at Wall this year...you might look into that - you have to write an essay to get in, as do those that are there now, if they want to stay there... The room is nice, and she did clean it up before we visited, but...I wonder what my parents thought when they visited me. </p>
<p>Anyway, a trip to the Wal-Mart to get some things to personalize it and you're right, it's now THEIRS!</p>
<p>CTDAd, we saw one like that on a college tour. Small, smelly, with cigarette butts on the floor and beer posters with naked girls on the wall. Not exactly impressive (at least for the parents!) lol</p>
<p>Where is the application for Wall? (or should I ask...how may I obtain it?
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<p>Wall application:</p>
<p>Here is the TU Housing and Residence Life site:</p>
<p><a href="http://housing.tulane.edu/index.php%5B/url%5D">http://housing.tulane.edu/index.php</a></p>