<p>Hi all- Hope everyone is having a great summer. Working on a new blog post geared at incoming parents of students in the class of 2017. Saw there are some great tips and advice threads going here. I'd love to consolidate your best tips into a blog entry. If you're a current Tulane parent and would like for one of your best tips to be included in the blog, let me know- I would love it! Shoot me an email at <a href="mailto:jschiffm@tulane.edu">jschiffm@tulane.edu</a> with:</p>
<p>Your first name and hometown
Name of student and grad year
Your best tip! (Tip for what to bring to Tulane, travel tips, on-campus tips, letting go tips, etc.)</p>
<p>Thanks! You can also post in this thread if you would rather. Here is the blog in case you do not currently read it:</p>
<p>TulaneJeff: my son is an incoming Freshman. My advice is simple: if Tulane maven and compulsive poster here at CC “FallenChemist” is not already on your payroll, you should hire him immediately. He has been extraordinarily helpful to all of us, parents and students alike!</p>
Well, that would be a little difficult from Rhode Island, but thanks for the thought. At the request of some of the posters, I gave a little info about myself in a post back in early April. <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/tulane-university/1487793-happy-birthday-fallenchemist.html?[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/tulane-university/1487793-happy-birthday-fallenchemist.html?</a> But the main thing is that, being both an alum and a parent of a current student (only one more semester though, unless she changes her mind and decides to stay the spring semester as well), I have a fairly strong connection to the school that way. And as many of you have discovered in this process, Tulane and New Orleans together (since it is impossible to separate them from almost any discussion about the school) engender a unique feeling of affection in many. And when I saw all the misinformation about both that was out there in the general public, especially after Katrina, I started to speak up on here. Then I just got hooked.</p>
<p>Anyway, not to distract from Jeff’s project. Please write to him with your suggestions. Jeff, I will send you my list this weekend. Your blog is great, btw.</p>