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<p>Ah, OK, you already have made contact and confirmed. Good to know, although I am surprised they haven’t planned something similar for the PTA winners. Oh well, as you imply, pretty easy to give up a one time breakfast for 4 years of free tuition to Tulane! Still, I hope whoever is the primary person for the award, as I think Dean MacLaren is for the DHS, will take steps to have a reception of some kind in the future.</p>

<p>My D also finished the online class. She thought it was boring, but I think it’s good that Tulane does make an effort to hammer in info on drugs, alcohol, sexual health, dating, rape etc.</p>

<p>Hmmm, mine hasn’t started the book or the course…of course she only got the book a week ago and we left for a mini vacation the next day and got home last night. Hopefully she’ll get started on both soon, but I have a feeling she’s not going to like the book.</p>

<p>Hi all…DS started the book, but did not get very far. He keeps insisting that “nobody is reading it” and that I am “so annoying!” I tried to read it but did not get past the introduction- (not really my type of book to be honest). Question?? Is there a Staples near the school or will I be buying all his school supplies in Target and Walmart?</p>

<p>No Staples, but there is an OfficeMax in Jefferson Parish. It is a few blocks from a nice WalMart as well, and it is about the same distance from Tulane as the Metarie stores. Go to both the WalMart and OfficeMax web sites, use their store locator and put in the zip code 70123. The Elmwood shopping center where the OfficeMax is located is pretty nice, the major tenants are Home Depot, TJ Maxx, K-mart, Petsmart, Guitar Center, Marshalls, Michaels, Linens n Things, Office Max, Sports Authority, Pier 1, Cost Plus World Market, a New Orleans Hamburger and Seafood Company restaurant, that kind of stuff. I think it has an Old Navy also. If you are having things shipped on hold to Linens n Things as we have discussed before, this store is an alternative to the Metarie one.</p>

<p>Ah, found a mall layout map. <a href=“http://lauricella.com/images/pdfs/Elmwood_EntireSite_20070517.pdf[/url]”>http://lauricella.com/images/pdfs/Elmwood_EntireSite_20070517.pdf&lt;/a&gt; There are other stores next to the mall that technically are not part of this property, but can be useful. It’s a good place to know about for pretty much one-stop shopping.</p>

<p>Jozuko: There is no Staples in New Orleans. There is an Office Max in the Elmwood Shopping Center or an Office Depot on Veterans, but it might be easier to get what you need at Walmart or Target. He could actually buy it himself on the Friday night Target trip as long as you send him with a couple of pens and maybe some notebook paper and a few folders. I found that any of the supplies I purchased other than the pens, pencils, a calculator and a stapler all came home unused because it just didn’t turn out to be what he needed.</p>

<p>Jozuko, your son and my daughter must be talking to the same people.</p>

<p>My son is enjoying the book but he’s very political so it’s right up his alley. </p>

<p>I didn’t realize we had to waive the student health insurance! Thanks for that tip.</p>

<p>I’m freaking out a little bit because my son will be home from his camp job on the 14th and then leaving on the 19th… not a lot of time to get him to do the online course, pack and ship, etc. </p>

<p>Keeping an eye out for the shipping labels in case I can send anything down there before he gets home.</p>

<p>Another thing on MY list is to contact the local medical center so he can get his ADHD meds. The school was helpful in giving me a person to contact who can connect with my son’s doctor here. They are really strict about stimulants, as they should be.</p>

<p>S has finished the online course, started the book (just got it on Wednesday), and got most of his shopping done. We’ll shop more at move in. Good to know about waiving the insurance. So many things to check off the lists. Meal plan done. Books ordered. Just noticed that the hurricane plan needs to be logged in too.</p>

<p>This is the link to the Getting Here & Checking In page:
[Tulane</a> University - Moving - Getting Here & Checking In](<a href=“http://tulane.edu/studentaffairs/housing/new-students/getting-here-checking-in.cfm]Tulane”>http://tulane.edu/studentaffairs/housing/new-students/getting-here-checking-in.cfm)
it has links to maps and other move-in information including this link to the parking permit for move-in weekend:
<a href=“http://tulane.edu/studentaffairs/housing/under/upload/2013-Move-in-parking-permit.pdf[/url]”>http://tulane.edu/studentaffairs/housing/under/upload/2013-Move-in-parking-permit.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>Elmwood Shopping Center…great to have this…one clarification…LNT is not in business anymore and I read a furniture store moved into their location in this shopping center…so no BBB type option here for ship and hold.</p>

<p>Ah, of course. Thanks for that correction, sportsforher. I always get LNT and BBB confused. You can tell how often I frequent those kinds of stores!</p>

<p>ok skiermom. now you are getting me nervous…shopping done, books ordered and reading the book! I’ve got to get moving! I did do one run through at Bed Bath with that shopping “gun” but we are hardly done. And we have not even looked into ordering the books. Did you just order from the book store? Seems like that would be the easiest thing. Suddenly feeling overwhelmed…!!!</p>

<p>OK - we are making progress. S took the online course on drugs + alcohol, and we started packing this weekend. We have not gone to BB+B yet - waiting for room assignment first. S told me he finished the summer reading - not sure how thoroughly he did that…and I just learned that they have to have an evacuation plan in case of a hurricane - I cannot find that anywhere. Apparently there is something online to complete - I don’t see it. I see where it is described but no link that takes you to some kind of survey.</p>

<p>Can someone comment on their own D or S’s plan? I have a friend that lives an hour from campus, but she would probably have to evacuate as well if there was an emergency. Suggestions or ideas? S is too young to rent a car - other than flying home, I am not sure what to do.</p>

<p>Our evacuation plan is for my d to fly home but at orientation there was a rental car company there that has a special arrangement with Tulane to rent to students. I didn’t pay that close attention because my daughter could never drive home. I know the age was a lot younger than most.</p>

<p>Enterprise is the car company Tulane has an arrangement with. ( my d would be safer staying in the hurricane than trying to drive home - and so would everyone else on the road lol)</p>

<p>My plan is for DS to fly home. At orientation, I asked if this was a realistic plan. I was told yes, but they advise printing out tickets before getting to the airport. They said that extra flights are scheduled because the airport does not want to leave planes on the ground during a hurricane. They also said that classes would be canceled a couple of days in advance of a possible hurricane, giving students time to leave.
Bloomy, I also do not see where to fill out the plan. DS keeps telling me “yeah, I think I did that already.” But I would like to double check.
As far as that book goes, I saw him reading it once, but every time ask him about it, he gets annoyed with me. Oh well, he’s a big boy…</p>

<p>I am not sure if we did this correctly or not, but at rms.giza.tulane.edu/ there was a kind of obscure one line in one of the forms (under profile and then under contact information) at the very bottom of the form was a line item for evacuation location - nothing detailed. We just entered our city and state since S2 would be driving home with S1 who has a car. We looked for it multiple times and overlooked it because we were expecting something that jumped out at us and was more detailed. If there is more to it than that, we couldn’t find it. If someone else knows, please share!</p>

<p>I think that is all there is. They just want to know that the student has thought ahead about a specific location they can get to. For example, my D’s roommate freshman year was from Shreveport, so she would have gone home with her had it been needed. Fortunately it wasn’t.</p>

<p>However, for your own use there are several good sites that have checklists and advice.</p>

<p>[Your</a> Family Disaster Plan](<a href=“http://www.ohsep.louisiana.gov/factsheets/familydisasterpln.htm]Your”>http://www.ohsep.louisiana.gov/factsheets/familydisasterpln.htm)</p>

<p>[Make</a> A Plan | Ready.gov](<a href=“http://www.ready.gov/make-a-plan]Make”>Make A Plan | Ready.gov)</p>

<p>Tulane learned so much from Katrina, and Gustav showed they could implement that well. The school does a great job, but of course planning by each family is critical.</p>

<p>I’m confused too…maybe it is part of the dorm assignments that are supposed to come out tomorrow? Is it terrible to leave her in the hands of Tulane? It seems easier to just let her be bused wherever they take the kids than deal with the potential chaos of getting plane tickets and timing her departure and return.</p>