One of the first things I did when I started looking into colleges was check out the U.S. News college rankings. I compared all the colleges I was considering and even sent applications to random colleges just because they were close to the rankings of my favorite schools.
When it came time to decide which school […]
I have the worst buyer’s regret. It takes me forever to make decisions because I’m so afraid of making all the wrong ones. Steak or chicken? The red shirt or the blue one? Another biology class or a social science? One time I stood in the office supply aisle of Walmart for 30 minutes trying […]
The month of March means warmer weather, St. Patrick’s Day, spring break and, to basketball fans, the exciting beginning of March Madness.
The NCAA Championship is one of the most-watched sporting events in the country. Millions of people fill out brackets and avidly watch game after game. These games are televised on CBS and more recently, they’ve […]
I hadn’t heard of College ACB until I read about its possible ban by Technology Services in last week’s issue of the Hullabaloo. The first thing I did (of course) was check out this scandalous Web site. While my browser loaded, I had a preconceived notion that I was going to be anti-banning. I was […]
Before coming to Tulane, I imagined Mardi Gras as a single day of drunken boob-flashing for beads on Bourbon Street in the unbearably hot New Orleans humidity with jazz music playing in the background.
Well, there were beads. An incredible, unbelievable, ridiculous amount of beads.
Mardi Gras surprised me in a lot of ways. It’s not a one-day celebration […]
Halloween is a night that celebrates many different things. For the young – and the not so young – it’s a night to dress up and be whoever you want to be. It’s an excuse to eat lots of candy. It’s carving pumpkins. It’s TP’ing your neighbors’ houses. It’s haunted houses and scary movies. […]
A couple weeks ago, I stayed up late studying for a quiz. I wrapped it up around 1 a.m. and I went to the bathroom to brush my teeth. I walked down the hallway, punched in the code, opened the door and found myself face-to-face with some random guy.
Yep, you read that correctly. A dude.
We both stopped […]
From what I’ve seen and heard around campus, a lot of students are upset over Tulane’s new smoking policy.
Non-Smokers: “I have the right to breathe clean air!”
Smokers: “I have the right to smoke where I want to smoke!”
People that don’t read the Hullabaloo: “There’s a new smoking policy?”
I’m not an expert on human rights, so I don’t know who […]
Facebook. MySpace. Twitter. E-mail. Text messaging.
All of these are ways to communicate with one another without ever meeting face to face. Between pocket-sized laptops and shiny, multicolored cell phones, people can have whole relationships without ever being in the same room.
Uh, really?
Where is the fun in that?
I have to admit: I’m guilty of a Facebook addiction and my […]
My name is Judith Chatto and I’m a freshman. I moved in early last Sunday and I have no idea what’s going on. I’m not from New Orleans. I don’t have any siblings in college. At this point, I’m very confused.
A lot of stuff is changing very quickly. I’m 10 hours from home. I’m surrounded […]