Tulane University

Yes, it is the largest transition you have faced in your young adult life. Yes, it is both a frightening and exhilarating new environment. Yes, you will encounter obstacles and sometimes you may fail. Accustom yourself to your surroundings and accept that you are in unfamiliar territory. The beginning of your freshman year of college is a whirlwind of new information and new experiences, and if you embrace it, it is a thrilling ride. Here are, in my honest opinion, the most essential tips for freshman year, paired with relevant asides catered towards incoming students preparing to enter Tulane University. The Tip: Never hesitate to ask questions, especially when you are confused. I entered Tulane without knowing very many people, and it took time to fully get to know campus and my school. Whenever I was lost, either physically lost because I failed to locate any of my classes on the first day, or mentally lost due to the stinging concepts of Calculus, always take the courage to ask questions. After asking questions, the answers lead to more and more answers. Being misinformed is a disadvantage and people are…

For this professorship, I am proposing the production of a documentary that looks at the issues of environmental racism in 1996 and the attempts by then Governor Foster and the state of Louisiana to violate the constitutional rights of citizens of Convent, Louisiana. Specifically, among other constitutional rights, I will be looking at the violations of First Amendment, specifically the right to free speech and the right to peacefully assemble. Background: In 1998, Robert Kuehn and Oliver…

While in truth, I often think in terms of black and white, I also often see the shades of silver, gray, charcoal and tar that compose the other 98% of opinions and facts of the situation. The statistical analysis and composition of Tulane University are the terms in black and white; the opportunities and possibilities are the shades in between. For quite some time I have known my major of choice is anthropology, and I have entertained the possibility of a double major or a double minor. For each…

I’m round but I’m not a wheel, I’m loved by a monster but I’m not the Bride of Frankenstein, I sometimes contain chips but I’m not a computer, I go well with milk but I’m not a bowl of cereal, I’m made of dough but I’m not a loaf of bread, What am I? Yay, that’s right cookies. Moist cookies can absorb milk, moist cookies are easier to chew, and moist cookies are usually fresh. If you can’t tell already moist cookies are better than dry. Moist cookies absorb the milk better than dry cookies…

While an extremely residential campus, Tulane is sprawled throughout the heart of the city, only four short miles from the Vieux Carré, or the French Quarter,…

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…

TUVA is the amount of doors that have opened from meeting the vast Vietnamese community that exists in Louisiana alone. I envision TUVA to grow in the VSA communities in Louisiana by encouraging general members to step out of the Tulane bubble and participate in the numerous events held by VSA. I believe TUVA's presence should continue to cultivate, which means E-board members and general members should create connections with other…

mapping campus revealed that the experience of the students I spoke with rarely lined up with the image promoted by Tulane admissions. In class we discussed Henri Lefebvre’s theory of the social production of space and I originally interpreted the concepts of social practice and representational space was extremely static. Initially I thought of institutions/people in power creating both the representations of space and the representational space as the space was created and civilians only…

of South America and is home to over 48 million people. The education system in Colombia differs greatly from the education system in the United States. According to Information Colombia, the education system in Colombia is made up of a Primary school, Secondary school, Universities and Technical training. Primary school consists of children from ages 6-12 and is free for citizens. A majority of children attend…

Most nations dream of better-paying jobs or higher education; after all, it is a way of life. This is where the federal DREAM act comes into play. This act will make it easier to obtain citizenship for illegal children and send them to universities or colleges. Is it fair that someone gets a better education than me as a reward for illegal behavior? I think not. There are many flaws in this act, but the ones that stand out the most to me are how this act incentivizes illegal behavior, as well as…