Tulane Students Prepare To Pack Up

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Tulane Students Prepare To Pack Up

Some sorry to go, others glad to head home

Published On Monday, January 09, 2006 1:16 AM

By NINA L. VIZCARRONDO

Crimson Staff Writer

When the raging flood-waters of Hurricane Katrina swept away the campuses, and plans, of Gulf Coast college students, they could have spent their semesters waiting and wallowing. But, for the 25 Tulane students who took refuge at Harvard this semester, the setback became an opportunity for an unusual adventure.

From the House system and nightlife to advising and academic competition, Harvard was, for these students, a far cry from their school in the Big Easy. Almost all 25 students are set to return to Tulane this week, taking with them mixed impressions of their semesters in Cambridge.

Of the 10 Tulane freshmen at Harvard, most say they would have stayed at the College if they could have.

For these first-year students, Harvard has been the only college experience they have known. The Tulane upperclassmen, on the other hand, had already had a taste of college life and had made a home for themselves in New Orleans. From their vantage point, Harvard was more of an interruption than a new beginning.

Comparisons between Harvard and Tulane’s structure and culture were inevitable.

But, for all of the Tulane students, time spent at Harvard was marked by a sense of impermanence and unfamiliarity.

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I found this to be a great read and am happy to see these students doing well.

[ClintonTyree]

1. My daughter is a Senior at Tulane..........

she spent the fall semester at Cornell (closer to home than the others). Cornell is a gigantic campus and it kind of put the zap on her brain, she spent the first two weeks just trying to orient herself. All in all she had a good semester (3 A's and 1 B) but she's already returned to New Orleans. Classes start the 17th and she can't wait to get what's left of her Senior year at Tulane underway.
She can't believe how the city has changed, it's nothing like the city she left in July when she came home for a month.

Tulane is going through some serious reorganization. They're phasing out the engineering department completely, are combining Newcomb and Tulane University (Newcomb was the "woman's" part of Tulane) and they're cutting sports programs left and right.

There's many changes going on down in "the big easy" and life is anything but "easy" down there at the moment.