<p>FYI, if your son or daughter has not checked their e-mail, housing assignments went out tonight. The e-mail tells them their dorm/room assignment but not roomate. They have to check housingweb for that and the site is down. My son is thrilled with his room assignment!</p>
<p>Dolphnlvr-Which dorm did your son get? My D got Warren…doesn’t look like a freshman dorm. :(</p>
<p>Which is??? Wall?</p>
<p>My son got Wall, 4th floor!</p>
<p>Very nice!</p>
<p>Now I am waiting for the deluge of complaints from the young women that got JL when they didn’t request it. I need to dig up my old posts on this.</p>
<p>Yeah, a guess a few are already disappointed they didn’t get Sharp/Monroe. </p>
<p>Yes, for sure. I think Tulane is a special place, but they cannot create space out of nothing. Besides, while I certainly won’t claim that the dorm you are in means nothing, I think it is overblown to some degree. To me, at least, the roommate you get impacts you more than what dorm it happens to be in. And overriding even that is how much effort the student makes to be social. Most stuff happens outside the dorms at Tulane. One of the pleasures of being at a warm weather school.</p>
<p>I was a commuter in college. My main friends were other commuters, but once I started having classes in my major, I became friends with the kids who I had most of my classes with. Some dormed, some were commuters, we all hung out in their dorms freshman year and then in their apartments when they moved off campus. So as you said FC, it all depends on what you do, who you hang out with, how much you put yourself out there. Clubs and social activities are a bigger part than where you sleep and shower :)</p>
<p>I am not sure what percentage of your school was commuters, but at Tulane it is pretty low. Even some of the NOLA natives choose to live on campus. Definitely not a “suitcase school” in any sense. I think that actually helps take the focus off the dorms because the Uptown area becomes the students real home for 8+ months. Between the dining areas, the coffee shops, the bars, the park, the quads, and everything else available, I think the dorms become more exactly what you say, a place to sleep and shower, and maybe to study sometimes. At least, with all that other stuff available, I would sure hope so! I know it has been ages, but I spent little time at my room.</p>
<p>So fallen chemist - dig up old posts of what I can say to my daughter. She will be beyond upset when she discovers that she got assigned to JL. Her sister was in Sharp and she definitely wanted sharp or Monroe. She called it “social suicide” and is very shy so feels she needs a typical crazy freshman dorm. Big sigh!</p>
<p>@Carb123 - OK. It’s late now but I’ll do it tomorrow. Short term: lots of years of experience prove that all the assumptions are just plain wrong. JL is super social.</p>
<p>OK, here is what I could dig up.</p>
<p><a href=“First Day(s) of Classes Feedback - #83 by fallenchemist - Tulane University - College Confidential Forums”>First Day(s) of Classes Feedback - #83 by fallenchemist - Tulane University - College Confidential Forums; posts #81 and 82.</p>
<p><a href=“Dorm Assignments - #61 by npcx723 - Tulane University - College Confidential Forums”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/tulane-university/1534051-dorm-assignments-p5.html</a> posts #60-61</p>
<p><a href=“What's your opinion on housing? - #2 by fallenchemist - Tulane University - College Confidential Forums”>What's your opinion on housing? - #2 by fallenchemist - Tulane University - College Confidential Forums; End of post #1</p>
<p>I think it is just more of the same after that. It comes up every year. She just needs to give it a chance. She will surely be fine, her life as she knew it is far from over.</p>
<p>There isn’t really much that will absolutely convince an incoming freshman unless they are the type that can be persuaded by past experiences of others. Perhaps others have arguments I haven’t thought of, or just more testimonials.</p>
<p>Thanks. My concern is that of safety. She is an arch student and will be in the studio until the wee hours of night/ morning from what we have been told. JL is a far walk at a late hour especially with an expensive computer in tow. I hope my concern is unfounded</p>
<p>Unfounded? Technically no, I think one always has to consider that as a factor. In the sense that there has been an issue on campus? To the best of my knowledge, there has not been any incident of violence on campus walking from A to B anytime in the last 40 years, which is my time frame for Tulane. But, and there is absolutely nothing wrong with asking for this, Tulane will ALWAYS send a TU officer to escort a student at any hour. She has merely to call TUPD (and there are apps for that) and one will appear within minutes. There is also an app where she can send them a message that she is leaving Richardson (or anywhere, including off campus) and expects to be at JL in 15 minutes or whatever. She then sends them another message when she arrives. It’s a nice backup plan and a good safety feature when off campus and too far to get an escort, but personally if she is on campus I would opt for the escort.</p>
<p>Besides, while it is the longest walk possible, it isn’t like Monroe is next door, and that would be the closest possible dorm. But that is neither here nor there in this case. In fact, knowing the habits of most architects (I roomed with one freshman year and observed many) I suspect TUPD gets more calls from these students in the wee hours starting in November and then again in April than any other group. I think you know what I am saying ;)</p>