People Here Actually Study (some of the time)

Introduction
I walked into my dorm and we’re loading and unloading out stuff all day long and I was just sopping wet because it was just so hot and so humid and I was just thinking, “Who could live here in this place it is so hot, right?”

Campus Life and Social Life
Uptown New Orleans is beautiful. Most tourists when they’re on the streetcar they’re riding uptown and their mouths keep dropping open at the gorgeous houses. But we have a lot of great music clubs and people think of New Orleans as a music and food city and that’s not just in the French Quarter, that’s also in the Garden District and Uptown New Orleans. New Orleans is a city in which you can go out every night to a bar and no ones going to care. You don’t have to be 21; it’s probably the only city in the country you don’t have to be 21. Advertisement
Academics
I lived in the honors dorm actually, which sounds really dorky, but I loved it. There’s just such a community with freshman dorms that you just meet so many people. It’s called Butler House it’s the honors dormitory, it’s for anyone in the honors program. It’s co-ed girls live on one floor guys live on another floor. My majors are English and Art history. I take about 6 classes a semester, but I take them on the heavy side because I’m graduating in 3 years. So I probably have about 18-21 hours of class a week, which is about avg for a college student. My classes have actually been incredibly small. I don’t think I’ve had a class over 50 people. I think my avg class size is about 25 kids and it’s really great because I actually know my professors and I’ll go out and have dinner with them or I’ll go to their offices and talk to them, or I’ll go to their houses for a barbeque. And there’s just a lot of interaction that you just don’t get at a state school, which is a real benefit.

Student Body
I kind of just think that all the students are all the same and I wish that there were more people that were more down to earth and chill and interesting and didn’t have to go out every night and wear exactly the same outfit or look exactly the same as the person next to them. I just wish people were more distinct and were more interested in education and learning things than just going out every single night and I like to go out. I go out pretty much all the time, but it’s just they have a one-track mentality.

In Closing...
When you get here, expect a lot of pressure to be put on you to go out and party because nobody’s going to put any restrictions on you, you can go to any bar you want, pretty much and you’re going to have to be able to control yourself.