<p>finally- im visiting emory and HOTlanta on thurs --> fri. WHat is your advice on places to visit, things to see, eat, etc...</p>
<p>my list already has the Carter center an dEverybody's pizza because been there since my parents went there in the 70s. Does anybody know if stone mountian is good for an afternoon or day? coke? cnn tours? (tacky or fun?)</p>
<h1>1 GA Aquarium</h1>
<h1>2 Underground Atlanta</h1>
<h1>3 World of Coke</h1>
<h1>4 Lenox (mall/shopping district)</h1>
<h1>5 CNN (kind of boring though)</h1>
<h1>6 *****Virginia Highlands (eat at the Cheesecake Factory or Loca Luna's)</h1>
<p>V.Highlands is an awesome shopping/eating district with an old vintage feel with lots of little shopping, music, and eating places.</p>
<p>Have Fun!!!!</p>
<p>if you're there to visit emory, visit emory and don't spend your time doing touristy things in atlanta which have nothing to do whatsoever with the school. immerse yourself in emory life so you can really see if it's what you want. get your mom/dad to drop you at the admissions office in the a.m., the lady at the desk will help you find a few classes to visit and will even give you a slip of paper with directions to class.....from there, hit the first class and then make friends and tag along with somebody from there on out. emory students are totally friendly. when i visited, i went to a spanish class with a totally awesome professor....i met a girl there who offered to meet up with me later (after i went to visit the music department) so she could show me her dorm. after hanging in the dorm for a while, i went with her to her writing seminar class. in her writing class, i met a guy who was a music major and i asked him if he had time to talk about the music department (& what it's like to do a double major) and he was free so he went and ate lunch with me. i was spending the night in a dorm, so after that my mom brought my stuff and took me (and my stuff) to the dorm of the girl i was staying with. i hung out with her until the next morning....we studied together a bit (i'd brought my AP gov book) and then hung with her friends, ate dinner at everybody's (she had to take me so i could have the true emory experience), watched a movie in her dorm, went with one of her friends to check out the frat row scene for about an hour, went back to the dorm and played card games with some of her guy and girl friends until about 2:30 in the morning.....yeah it was really hard to get up in the morning. but that was a friday in the life of an emory student right there.</p>
<p>you probably won't be able to spend the night in a dorm unless you know someone who goes there b/c the school no longer coordinates overnight visits. i was so lucky that my piano teacher's second cousin just graduated from emory and got me in touch with one of his freshman friends (the girl i stayed with.) but if there's any way you can do it, i highly recommend it. if not, it's no big deal. but definitely definitely definitely spend as much time on the emory campus as possible, and i don't mean doing those dumb tours/info sessions b/c they hardly tell you anything about the real emory.....you have to just interact with the students (and profs) themselves to find that out.</p>
<p>anyway, enjoy your visit! i enjoyed mine. :)</p>
<p>I visited Emory with my mom for two days, so we got a little chance to explore... I really liked the area of Atlanta called Buckhead I think... it's a shopping district with lots of cute boutique stores... there's also some good places to eat there.</p>
<p>We didn't go to the Coke factory b/c it was just closing when we got there, but it looked kind of stupid, I don't know...</p>
<p>Personally, I prefer to do things more that people who live in Atlanta would do, rather than go to all the tourist traps... (I'm from NYC and I can't stand all the Times Square/ Statue of Liberty/ Empire State Building stuff...haha) so yeah I'd reccomend Buckhead if that's even what it was called. Have fun!</p>
<p>Underground Atlanta and the World of Coke= a waste of time!
Trust me, I live here!</p>
<p>I just found out that I got in a couple of days ago, but I had gone to visit the a month earlier. While I was down there I was able to do a couple tours and talk to a student that was the son of my dad's old roomate. It's really helpful if you have a connection to be able to stay in the dorms. I was able to stay over without any trouble. Being able to stay over was definitly helpful in making my decision (I am still not sure). I showed up at the dorm and things at around 10:30, and things were just getting started. We went to an off-campus frat party and then came back after a while to fraternity row. He lived in Trimble, so it was a really close and easy walk back to the dorm at the end of the night. For the most part everyone I met was really cool. No one was disrespectful or anything like that because they didn't know me or had never seen me before. It was a great time.</p>