My Visit To Tulane

It was love at first sight—only, I didn’t know it at the time. I flew into New Orleans the summer of my senior year to visit family, not to visit Tulane. I didn’t even decide to visit Tulane until I was in a Best Buy parking lot on Veterans Memorial Boulevard. The first thing that was really enthralling about Tulane was your generosity; it was clear to me, when I pulled up the website on my phone and found that we could get a discounted hotel rate for the night—the Hotel Monteleone was wonderful, by the way. I visited Tulane, got lost, was offered a free beverage and briefly fell in love with my very pretty tour guide. I loved the campus, the city, the people, and that trademark generosity. It’s beyond generic, though: the city of New Orleans …show more content…
What has changed, the reason I can say it was love at first sight, more so than any school I wanted to attend, is my desire for intellectual growth. The first half of my “gap year” was not productive on paper—but I accomplished everything I wanted to. The goal of my “gap year” was simple: I wanted to figure out why I hadn’t been a successful student in spite of my intelligence, why I wasn’t motivated, and most importantly, I wanted to find my real passion. I wanted to make sure that when I went to college it wasn’t because “it was the thing to do.” To commit financially and intellectually to a place for four years is a tall order—one I didn’t want to enter half-heartedly. Nearly one full year to the day, I am looking at colleges