<p>S has a late Chem lab on Tuesday afternoons, 3-6pm. We plan to work around this for Thanksgiving air reservations. Will we later find out that these late classes are informally cancelled before the holiday or that "no one goes?" (Wednesday before Thanksgiving has no classes). Thanks, it's amazing how the little details re travel keep cropping up.</p>
<p>How did the registration process go? My D is not scheduled to register until tomorrow at 11. She is getting frustrated with the process of putting together the puzzle of a schedule. Patience is not one of her strong points!
She has 1 particular class she wants and she is nervous that she will not get it.
How many units did he register for?</p>
<p>mom60 - It went smooth as cream. However, S is in Engineering and they have almost no choice in what they take (just which level of math; whether to do programming or an English class first term), just trying to get the desired timing. He got exactly the schedule he had pencilled in.</p>
<p>Of course, this wasn't his "dream" schedule which he had pre-defined as "no classes before noon; no classes on Friday and no classes on Thursday' :eek: Not bloody likely for an engineering freshman: He is taking 17 credits, which actually amounts to 21 class hours with labs etc. Then he will add either a music ensemble or private lessons when he gets there in August (for fun ;).</p>
<p>Did you know that you can go on line and see "counts" for how many are already registered in a class and how many openings there are? I'm just assuming it's accurate; S didn't really need to do that; but it might help your D guess about that one class she really wants. I will look for the link.</p>
<p>It's under Enrollment Counts and Availability on the Registrar page: <a href="https://sslegacy.tcs.tulane.edu:8443/cs/conn?TaskName=CBW_Cselect%5B/url%5D">https://sslegacy.tcs.tulane.edu:8443/cs/conn?TaskName=CBW_Cselect</a></p>
<p>Glad it went well for him. She has gone for 1 of the classes to check the enrollment count. One section is already full and the other has just 10 seats left but the time isn't so great so she thinks it won't fill up. They seem to have a lot of classes that meet on Fridays so that is hard to avoid. It looks to be a course that is not usually offered so she really wants it. If she doesn't get it she hopes they offer it in the spring.
She is having a hard time getting it all to work. Without having to have a 9 am class each morning.<br>
For those with experience- How close together in time can you space your classes. She could work out some of her conflicts if 10 to 15 minutes between classes is doable.
Are all his classes in his major?</p>
<p>I was also wondering if 10 minutes between classes was doable. I am registering myself and I can't seem to fit a language in unless i get latin at 8am :/</p>
<p>I hope 10 minutes is doable, as S' schedule is MWF 10-11-12-1! Guess he'll learn to move fast. They give you the building info when you register for some of the classes, so maybe you can have a campus map by your side.</p>
<p>I can't imagine its being a problem, as small as the campus is. A hundred years ago, at UF, I had fifteen minutes to get from one diagonal corner of the campus for Romantic Lit to another for Swahili, and I made that mile more often than not. Tulane is MUCH more doable!</p>
<p>My son has a similar schedule to the above on MWF as of a few minutes ago, and he anticipates no trouble at all (but he IS fast on his feet!). I am SO excited for him!</p>
<p>Agree, ctymomteacher. I looked at the campus map and reminded myself that the academic part of the campus is quite compact. Will be no problem.</p>
<p>Isn't it true how it becomes more and more real when the class schedule is right there in black and white?</p>
<p>Anyone have an answer to the original question re Tuesday classes before Thanksgiving?</p>
<p>Probably the farthest you can go between classes is Newcomb to Dinwiddie. That is maybe five blocks. Most classes are on the academic quad which means you could throw a rock from one to the other.</p>
<p>Little hint here. You can always drop a class so you might want to sign up for an extra one just in case one looks like it will be a bummer.</p>
<p>I had to work around dance classes, most of which are mid-day. That shoved classes to the morning, as I'm also pre-med and have to take lots of science. So four days a week I have an 8:00 class :-( On the upside I basically have the afternoons off so if I can get my butt out of bed in the morning I can nap in the afternoons, which I've learned to love this summer when I work in the mornings. I have chem, bio, modern dance, performance I (dance), french 102, and stat.</p>
<p>Well D now has 2 doable schedules planned. Hopefully one of them will work out. She will end up with a evening class. She did not want a daily dose of 8 AM. One of the classes she wanted the most filled up today. I feel sorry for those who aren't scheduled to register till Thurs. They are going to be stuck with all the 8 AM classes.
Hoped for schedule includes econ, stats, english, a studio art class and hopefully the Tibet refugee course.
Jmmom- she will also have class till 6:30 Tuesday before Thanksgiving. She is not even sure she will try to come home and this makes it even more difficult.</p>
<p>mom60 - I still don't know how to figure the will they/won't they come home over Thanksgiving - even divorced from the late Tuesday class. Some say that it's so short and they come home so soon after for Xmas that it isn't worth the airport hassles. We're going with the "make the reservation and pay the cancellation/re-booking fee if he doesn't use it" plan.</p>
<p>His Xmas vacation won't be super early, as his schedule gives him an exam on 12/20. Engineering sent out the key which tells you when exams are based on when your classes meet. If other departments didn't do this, let me know and I'll scan and post it.</p>
<p>Well we live in Wash, DC suburbs. Freshman year S came home for Thanksgiving and trip wasn't so bad but this year flight got delayed in NO and then delayed again. Finally by the time it left they missed the connecting flight out of Atlanta. It is about 1 AM now and the next flight isn't until 7 AM or thereabouts and that is to BWI. By the time he finally got home he had been on the road from dorm to home nearly 24 hours. Then we were going to Pottstown, PA for Thanksgiving day :-)</p>
<p>Is it worth it? I don't know. Depends on how bad you want to come home. Plus tell you the truth I am nervous as hell evry time he is on public transportation anymore. Being in Wash metro area there has just been too much stuff too close to home - 911 Pentagon attack, the Anthrax stuff on the Hill and at the Post Office, and even those two loony-bird snipers. One of the folks they shot was at a gas station just a couple of blocks from our house.</p>
<p>So many people traveling that weekend and such a cukturally charged time ... Anyway I don't mean to depress anybody. If you can get a flight try for a direct one so you don't have to worry about making connections.</p>
<p>Patuxent- We live in Ca and for her to get home is not simple. Fly direct to one airport and then have to drive 2 hours to pick her up and then another 2 hours to drive back home and then to do it again a few days later. I just don't know. Or she can take 2 planes and fly into our local airport at usually a much higher fare. And the delays on even the best days can throw a wrench into even the best schedule.
Mine also is thinking that she might not want to come home because then she might not want to go back.
Life is never simple</p>
<p>My son, despite the offer to fly him home (Vegas actually as that was where we were going), decided to go with some new friends he made to their homes in Mobile. He had the time of his life getting involved in different traditions -- and eating 3 different dinners. So, maybe you should wait and see what your student wants to do. As others have mentioned, the holiday travels can turn a bad 4 day trip into a nightmare.</p>
<p>I'm very pleased with my schedule, if you want you can see it at <a href="http://scheduler.mytulane.com/scheduler/step3/?sch_selected=25101,18460,15538,12913,18436%5B/url%5D">http://scheduler.mytulane.com/scheduler/step3/?sch_selected=25101,18460,15538,12913,18436</a> and I'm not sure if I'll take a tides yet. This was exactly what I wanted. But of course I'm not in a strict major like architecture or engineering. I'm history and philosophy so there's much more flexibility.</p>
<p>My S doesn't have his registration time until 3pm on Wednesday.
I'm very concerned that he won't get ANYTHING he wants! He's in the Tulane College (liberal arts) and undeclared. Actually, that makes it tougher because it's difficult to make decent choices when you don't have a clue what you want to pursue.
Congrats to those who've gone through the process. It's encouraging to hear that at least it runs smoothly. I've suggested to S that he have multiple schedules in mind!</p>
<p>I actually followed the sample schedule and I unfortunetly can not get a TIDES in.<br>
I've got Calc 121 honrs, french 101, engl 101, psyc 100, econ 101. I do want to take the business tide but TOUR is saying I can not go above 18 hours. I thought a TIDE would have been a great thing to take but apparently not.</p>
<p>Vinin- why don't you contact your adviser or the registrar's office? I don't really know anything, but I think you can add a TIDES in. S has 18 hours PLUS 2 credits for private music lesson, and the TOURS allowed that.</p>
<p>I have tried to call, it seems I get a fax machine I think? It gives me the machine dialing noises. So I emailed them.</p>