I had breakfast in Bruff and I thought it was more than passable. It was weird though how you have to go into a separate “backroom” to get an omelette made and then come back into the cafeteria. But hey, we sure don’t have somebody standing around all morning waiting to make custom omelettes at home! My son had a donut at Bruff that was so sugary it would probably be illegal where we live in CA or at the very least require a special tax.
I think it’s odd there is only one dining hall/cafeteria…but if the food isn’t great maybe it doesn’t get used much! I’m excited to hear about the improvements coming. My G is a health nut (unlike her mother who’d weigh 500 pounds if I lived in NO!) and she’ll just be interested in salads, fruit and chicken. She could eat the same thing every day. I’m not worried about that. I was more concerned that she thought the neuroscience lab was smaller and less sophisticated than her high school lab. But the teacher said they had human brains in there to work with and most undergrad programs do not, and she seemed to like that. I went to a big state school and we certainly had some dated/well-worn buildings, but at a private university with this price tag, it’s nice to see them investing in the facilities. I’m sure they had some tough years post Katrina just getting up to speed.
I just saw this thread ad wanted to respond to the original question about students who don’t party. My daughter is currently a first year student and has absolutely no interest in partying. She has made some wonderful friends many also don’t party. Some do. She loves Tulane, loves New Orleans and is having a blast. She tends to be an introvert so she decided that being in an RLC would be a good way to help her meet people with common interests. She is in the Spark RLC which has to do with women’s issues. Most of her friends are from Spark.
There are a lot of kids that party. I’m not going to lie. But it is possible to find your place there if you are not a partier.
I just saw this thread ad wanted to respond to the original question about students who don’t party. My daughter is currently a first year student and has absolutely no interest in partying. She has made some wonderful friends many also don’t party. Some do. She loves Tulane, loves New Orleans and is having a blast. She tends to be an introvert so she decided that being in an RLC would be a good way to help her meet people with common interests. She is in the Spark RLC which has to do with women’s issues. Most of her friends are from Spark.
There are a lot of kids that party. I’m not going to lie. But it is possible to find your place there if you are not a partier.
Has your child decided yet? If not, is she in the accepted student FB group? Perhaps not fair, but this is what helped my daughter decide not to go to Tulane. There were so many posts in that group about drinking, social life, sex, etc. than the groups for the other schools she was considering. It was hard because she loves New Orleans, and we have family there, but ultimately decided to go to a place that is a little more staid.
I know several people who have worked at Tulane for years. They say that the mood on campus greatly improved post-Katrina. Since then, the school has put more of an emphasis in being involved in the community, which has attracted a slightly different student body and/or students with different expectations from Tulane. They say in general students are happier there than they were a couple of decades ago. The school is making a concerted effort to meet students’ needs. The school has also made a huge effort recently to emphasize more than partying on campus. That effort has had some success, but not nearly as much as the administration would like.