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<p>I guess it’s an individual decision on what meal plan works. When we ate at Mandina’s, my son probably recognized he won’t eat like that too often. By the way, I learned from my son the Boot is known as a Tulane student “watering hole”. Evidently it is also visually “a hole” as we’ll!</p>

<p>Yes, the Boot is definitely the quintessential campus dive bar.</p>

<p>Trying to decide what day to come for move in. do we need to come on Thursday or will we have enough time to do everything if we come down on Friday??</p>

<p>I guess it depends on what you have to do, but Friday should be fine. Some people like to move in Saturday morning, get things unpacked, then assess what else they need. At that point, a trip to Walmart or Target or wherever usually takes care of the rest.</p>

<p>Hi - I’m a little confused. Been a longtime viewer of this forum, but never posted.</p>

<p>For everyone who recommends moving in on Thursday or a Friday thus avoiding the lines of parents/students/luggage on Saturday morning - is this even possible? I thought you weren’t allowed to move into your dorm until that “move in” Saturday.</p>

<p>@tulane12341- if you partake in the NOLA experience, you move in on Monday in your final room…hence the parent could bring most of the freshman’s stuff then earlier, I.e. Friday when NOLA is over</p>

<p>Can someone give me the best address to put into a GPS for move in? Once you arrive and the car is unpacked, where does the car go - is there a parking garage?</p>

<p>Also, what is the address for students during the course of the year - is there 1 central location where mail/packages go or are there individual dorm addresses?</p>

<p>There is a parking garage near the baseball field and Reilly Center, it is part of the Diboll Complex. Put in the address for Bruff, which is</p>

<p>31 McAlister Drive
New Orleans, LA 70118</p>

<p>That will get you very close, like a block away. Getting to the parking garage is easy from there.</p>

<p>That is also the address for all packages, there is a US Post Office in Bruff, or at least I assume there still is. They will assign your child a PO Box and give you exact mailing instructions when they send the FedEx shipping instructions in about a month.</p>

<p>I know that Tulane will send address labels for shipping. Suggestions on where to get boxes or what kind - does it matter? I loved FC’s idea about putting things in plastic - I plan on doing that.</p>

<p>I got my boxes at one of those storage space rental facilities. They also carry bubble wrap, packing tape, etc. There certainly may be cheaper places. I never checked to see if Walmart carries boxes or large rolls of bubble wrap. Certainly they will have the packing tape.</p>

<p>For everyone driving down or renting cars. Be careful! NOLA has red light and speed cameras throughout the city and St. Charles is littered with them.</p>

<p>WhereAreU- good to know, thanks. Not that I plan of speeding or anything.</p>

<p>Found this info by accident - students need to complete an online class before Aug. 19th about crime, alcohol,etc. The link comes out today in student email. My DS left his mail open on my computer and I saw it. Also, you need to either waive Tulane’s student insurance plan (over $2000) otherwise it will be automatically charged to your bill. Saw that by accident too - of course DS said he had things under control - I am not sure about that - it could have been a costly oversight.</p>

<p>More welcome week stuff - There’s an invite-only breakfast reception on that sun (8/25) for DHS winners and their families. Interesting that Paul Tulane Award winners (also full-tuition scholarship recipients) aren’t invited.</p>

<p>I wondered about that in a post way back in the fall when the PTA first came up. The DHS breakfast in front of Cudd Hall is a tradition, and squeezing in PTA winners and their families in that space probably isn’t feasible. Maybe they are doing a separate reception for them. Any PTA winners that see this, any info you can share?</p>

<p>Ah . . . thanks FC for explaining about the long-standing tradition and space issue for the DHS breakfast. While we are most gracious for the wonderful benefits that come with my child’s PTA, the exclusion came as a surprise - especially since Gibson refers to the PTA as a DHS award (“Congratulations on your receipt of the Deans’ Honor Scholarship”). I do not see anything on the Welcome Week schedule for PTA, but will post again if I learn of a gathering for that group.</p>

<p>I think I can explain the Gibson thing. At least a guess. Since the PTA is new and the awards are the same value, they probably just didn’t get around to adding the PTA to the computer code for purposes of financial statements and the like. So they used the current DHS code instead.</p>

<p>However, given that interesting tidbit about the award showing up as the DHS on your child’s Gibson account, maybe they meant to invite all the PTA winners as well to the same breakfast. Why not make a call to admissions or to Dean MacLaren’s office and ask? I could be wrong about the space issue. I mean, when we attended with my D four(!!!) years ago the patio area was pretty full, but maybe they can arrange it to fit more people. It is worth an inquiry, I would think.</p>

<p>The good news is that D2 already finished the online drug/alcohol course. The bad news is she did it so fast because she needed a break from the Summer Reading book that she is clearly not enjoying!</p>

<p>Well at least she can cross one off the list! I am going to have to crack the whip around here pretty soon.</p>

<p>I know about the exclusion of PTA winners from the DHS breakfast because I asked Tulane about it (I wanted to know what events to stick around for during move-in weekend). Since this is the first year of the PTA, you would think it would be given some attention, but perhaps it just needs more time to grow into a Tulane tradition.</p>