<p>While I'm planning the flights...... do most kids stay around for classes on Thanksgiving Wed? D's schedule shows her having an early morning class and a late afternoon Tides class on Wednesdays. Ideally, I'd like her to fly home on Tuesday, but wondered how frowned-upon that would be. </p>
<p>Thanks.</p>
<p>If she goes to class, she will be very lonely. Tulane is off that Wednesday. [Office</a> of the Registrar | Tulane University - New Orleans, LA](<a href=“http://registrar.tulane.edu/academic_calendars/academic_calendar_201030]Office”>http://registrar.tulane.edu/academic_calendars/academic_calendar_201030)</p>
<p>Ah, thank you. I confess I’d read that as meaning Thanksgiving begins at the end of Wednesday (I think of the weekend as beginning Friday at 5!), but I prefer your interpretation. And definitely bow to your knowledge. Thanks!</p>
<p>LOL, no problem. We have a standing joke around our house that when I was there we did not get that Wednesday off, and how soft they have it now. Truth is, though, we got the Wednesday after Mardi Gras and now they don’t. Well, this year it will be a moot point since Fat Tuesday is during Spring Break week. But we also didn’t get a spring break back then. We got M T W for Mardi Gras, Good Friday, and Easter Monday. Now they get all that (except for the Wednesday) AND a week long Spring Break. Yeesh, so soft.</p>
<p>One of my favorite stories is from my freshman year. The professor for that particular segment of my honors chemistry class (11 people) was Dr. Fagley. Yes that really was his name, and he was a very short, slight man with a somewhat gruff manner. Anyway, the class met M W F and about 2 weeks before Thanksgiving someone asked if we were going to actually have class that Wednesday before the holiday. Fagley just gave him this steely stare and said “Why yes, Mr. Broussard, I was anticipating keeping the schedule. I am so very sorry if this interferes with your skiing vacation in the Alps”.</p>
<p>The only flights available for me to go home on Tuesday are in the morning/early afternoon. Unfortunately, I have class until late afternoon. I guess I will be going home Wednesday morning.</p>
<p>It take nearly an entire day of travel for S2 to return home, so we decided it would not make sense for him to come home. Instead we are meeting in Chicago where his brother lives. It is the first time we have not celebrated the Holiday at home in over 20 years. We are looking forward to the trip. So, even if he can’t leave until Wednesday, it won’t be too bad.</p>
<p>When S1 first went to UChicago, they did not officially get the Friday after Thanksgiving off. It was up to the prof. That has now changed. Must be something about the new softer UChicago image…</p>
<p>Wow, not getting that Friday! Must have been the Rockefeller influence, lol.</p>
<p>My S couldn’t make it home for Tday last year, so we decided to just have Thanksgiving in New Orleans with my D. We ate at the Red Fish Grill on the day, and on the days after we had a blast. Did the mansion/swamp tour bit, explored rare book stores, things like that. This year everyone will be home like normal.</p>
<p>It might bee a good idea to wait until after school starts if possible to book flights. </p>
<p>Last year D’s Tuesday afternoon classes were canceled and her AM class was held on line.</p>
<p>It can be a balancing act as flight prices go up quickly.</p>
<p>I’m planning to stay, and actually on the Tulane Class of 2014 page someone asked the question of “Who’s staying at Tulane for Thanksgiving” and a good number of people responded that they are. So I think if she stays she’ll have plenty of people to be around</p>
<p>machad - one of my nicest memories of my time at Tulane was Thanksgiving my junior year. I could never get home for Thanksgiving, it was 600 miles and flying was out of the question expensive back then. No Southwest Airlines in those days! My first 2 years I was invited to a chem professor’s house, which was great but in my junior year he was at his daughter’s house out of town (she had gotten married earlier that year).</p>
<p>Anyway, there were a number of us that were staying, and so we took over the big kitchen off the old ballroom in JL. Based on the floor plans, it looks like it is still there. Not sure if it is the same now, but back then it was a full kitchen capable of handling smallish social functions, with a large oven, fridge, the whole bit. So by the time Thanksgiving rolled around, there were about 12 of us and we cooked our own Cajun turkey, side dishes, wine (18 age back then), etc. It was a great day.</p>
<p>I know plenty of people that stay at Tulane over Thanksgiving. My freshman ut year, my TIDES professor offered his home for Thanksgiving day for anyone who couldn’t get to their home. I didn’t go, but the kids that went said his family was wonderful and the food was amazing! ( I know a few other profs that have done this as well–they’re very understanding about people missing the “family thanksgiving” atmosphere).</p>
<p>ALSO, I know plenty of people that simply miss class Monday and Tuesday. If you talk to your professor, it <em>usually</em> is not that big of a deal, unless there is a final test or something going on. Plenty of professors cancel class those days, too. If I leave for Thanksgiving this year, it will be to England, so I’m waiting to see what my classes look like and how my professors are, and I’m going to see if I can miss Monday and Tuesday and leave the Saturday before.</p>