SimulD: What about your finaid packet from Tulane that got you worried? Was it not enough? Or was it too much (as in higher than you expected)?
Here are some tips on living in New Orleans:
1) Get your own car, and resist public transit (except streetcars) whenever possible.
2) New Orleans is the land of no left turns, especially if you're driving downtown.
3) Don't fall into the tourist traps of dining in New Orleans. There are plenty of good, cheap places to eat.
4) Try not to drive around at night in/around the projects, which dot themselves around metro New Orleans.
5) Jazzfest was $20 just for the entrance fee this year! If you go the ticketmaster route, I think you can get tickets in advance for $5 cheaper.
6) Go to the Tulane football games. The tickets are free, are played in the Superdome, and the Wave will have a pretty good team this season. We need as many warm bodies as we can get in there.
7) Wear your oldest, stankiest shoes when you go down Bourbon during Mardi Gras.
8) Don't be alarmed/offended when you walk down Bourbon and you hear thousands chant "Show your t!ts"...it's kind of a tradition.
8a) If you do "show your t!ts", be careful...hundreds of videocameras are watching, and you may end up in the latest video release of "Girls gone wild: Mardi Gras" for only $9.95.
9) I think Wednesday and Friday nights (from 4pm-8pm) are happy hour at The Boot (bar on Tulane's campus). It's 3-for-1 drinks if I'm not mistaken.
10) Tulane shows $2 movies at McAlister Auditorium.
11) Work out at the Reily Center on Tulane's campus...it will probably be the nicest gym/rec center you'll ever go to.
12) The Palace Theatres are the nicest/biggest place to watch movies in New Orleans.
13) Audubon Park is probably the best place to go jogging.
14) It gets REALLY hot and humid here between June and August.
15) New Orleans might lose the Saints by the time you get here.
16) If you really want a good steak, go to Ruth's Chris Steakhouse...nothing else compares.
