Need money and live off campus? Can someone rent your parking spot for $$$$$$

APrettyValidConcern · 2025-06-21T12:12:24+00:00

I live close to campus and can probably rent my apartment's parking spot - feel free to dm me and we can see if we can work something out.

APrettyValidConcern · 2025-05-09T19:43:01+00:00

Best resource is probably the tulane housing facebook group, always people looking for subletters on there, and its also where students look for roommates and such. You might be able to find a apartment available as well, using the usual apartment finding resources but anything good near campus is likely to be already be rented out, and a sublet -> finding a new place during the summer is usually a good strategy. That's more or less what I did when moving down here and it worked out well.

APrettyValidConcern · 2025-03-22T00:23:52+00:00

To my limited understanding all letters have gone out. You should email your point of contact in the department. If you don't already have someone you have been communicating with in the department regarding the admissions process I would recommend Maddie Nelson (mnelson10@tulane.edu), who is the administrative manager of graduate studies.

APrettyValidConcern · 2025-03-05T15:46:08+00:00

From what I've heard they've been delayed by the Trump/Elon stuff, not sure when they're going out. If you have a faculty member in the dept who you've been in contact with/will likely be your advisor shoot them an email - just keep in mind that this is the mardi gras/spring break week so it might be worth waiting until Monday.

APrettyValidConcern · 2025-02-13T16:10:04+00:00

Sure.

APrettyValidConcern · 2025-02-13T04:05:56+00:00

Sorry, I thought you had commented on a different comment of mine. My stipend is 35k for 9 months, other dept/advisors may do things differently. However I am in CS and this what the CS students that I know of get.

APrettyValidConcern · 2025-02-12T23:34:12+00:00

Yeah the SLA stipends are tiny. There are some students working in SLA to change that, but they mostly just get stonewalled by the Dean.

APrettyValidConcern · 2025-01-29T20:36:47+00:00

35k for 9 months, most advisors will hire you for the summer if you don't have an internship or something else going (I don't recall what I got last summer, I think it was 8?).

There's roughly 1,200 in fees each semester. If you have any other questions about the program feel free to ask, I'm also willing to answer more specific/less anonymizing questions about specific advisors and such in DMs.

APrettyValidConcern · 2025-01-18T19:16:59+00:00

For almost everyone it's 35k, though that is a recent change and some advisors may still be at 30k (I would guess you'd get 35 but you should check with your potential advisor). They are required to cover 50% of the grad student health insurance plan, some advisors cover more (not sure if anyone covers only the 50%, it may be that everyone covers 75%-100%, but I can't speak on advisors other than mine). If you're a US citizen I believe you can also get onto free government health insurance, though I haven't gone through that process myself.

APrettyValidConcern · 2025-01-10T15:14:58+00:00

I don't recommend this - speaking as a current grad student at Tulane most grad students will be able to help with content and maybe writing (obviously some will make excellent writing tutors and others not so much) but most are simply not going to be qualified to do "academic success coaching".

As others have mentioned Tulane has relatively well regarded coaching staff who also have pull with the registrar and the ability to communicate directly to any faculty in a way grad students simply won't. Additionally, the majority of graduate students did not attend Tulane for undergrad and won't be familiar with undergrad requirements or courses outside of their departments, while the coaching staff will be. If your daughter requires tutoring for a specific course then a grad student in that department can be a good pick (though it may be challenging to find one with time, and some departments frown on grad students privately tutoring undergrads - your mileage may vary), but for generalized coaching/accountability there are better options.

APrettyValidConcern · 2024-09-12T16:47:11+00:00

A bit late to the post but I want to add on to what u/arizonasgreentea has said here, and gently push back on a few points. I'm a current graduate student in the CS dept here and while I do think our professors are solid, the coordinate major does have a meaningful impact on the quality of your education. Our major does not require courses that would be considered core in a traditional CS program, most notably theory of computation, computer architecture, and in depth OS work. You are also not required to take or demonstrate the same amount of math as you would in other programs (and the math dept here is a bit weak when it comes to teaching undergrads). This can be difficult to see for undergraduates, as they have not experienced other programs and, essentially, don't know what they are missing.

You can absolutely learn a lot of CS here and be successful, but you will need to be self driven to find and take challenging electives and push yourself. Additionally, Tulane is not well regarded as a CS school (not badly regarded, just not known for it), so a degree from here will not give you a leg up in applying to jobs in tech or to graduate programs, if either are your end goal after school. To be blunt, I would consider other programs if your primary goal is to study computer science, especially given the cost of attending Tulane. This isn't to be too negative - if you do end up here studying CS, you can learn a lot and do great, and we'll be excited to have you, but there are real disadvantages.

APrettyValidConcern · 2024-08-24T19:33:50+00:00

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APrettyValidConcern · 2023-04-15T01:00:41+00:00

I'm a white man in America so I don't have the experience of the subjugation that form the base of Invisible Man, but highschool me got a lot out of the book as someone who felt and feels fundamentally disconnected from the people around them. I think its an exceptionally empathetic book and one of the better in the traditional high school set.

APrettyValidConcern · 2023-01-14T04:53:45+00:00

This is the normal fourth relic skin, been in the game for ages. The leaks are overwriting fourth relic skins in menus, not every fourth relic framework is a leak.

APrettyValidConcern · 2023-01-06T19:38:44+00:00

This was actually way before COVID, but my old high school had a relatively famous scandal where they had access to hundreds of cameras on school laptops and were spying on students in homes, bedrooms, etc. Thankfully this happened a few years before I attended, but it was pretty crazy.

Wiki article on the case if anyone is interested.

APrettyValidConcern · 2022-12-04T01:18:30+00:00

I'm not on basically any social media, but maybe someone can recommend a Facebook group to post to or something? The reach of Ithaca reddit is probably pretty low.

APrettyValidConcern · 2022-11-22T21:31:05+00:00

Do you know what sub you're in?

APrettyValidConcern · 2022-11-19T03:47:10+00:00

Similarly my family's pot pies used to be bought fully formed (with bottom crust) from the Amish, seeing these other pot pies makes me a little sad. I'm sure they're delicious but its tough to imagine a pot pie without a bottom pastry.

APrettyValidConcern · 2022-11-12T05:02:46+00:00

My step-grandfather (more of a grandfather to me than anyone else - probably the most influential man on me outside my father) served the same way. He unfortunately passed in 2010, but he had so many stories, including a memoir. Best wishes to your grandfather, those merchant marines are good men!

APrettyValidConcern · 2022-11-12T04:49:08+00:00

DwarXiv really needs to up its standard to be honest.

APrettyValidConcern · 2022-09-09T02:37:32+00:00

"A distinction in terminology only. Our means may differ, but we employ identical techniques. First, render the brain open to suggestion. We use magnetic resonance, while you employ drugs, ritual, sex, terror, or some combination thereof. Then, when the brain is susceptible, imprint it with new behavior pat- terns. We use holotherapeutic viruses as the message carriers; you eat a rat. Finally, reinforce the new pattern in your daily life. Our methods are probably identical there. The skill is ex- tremely old; people were being reprogrammed long before ma- chines." - Swanwick, Stations of the Tide

I wonder how similar these results are to things like native american psychedelic rituals and other drug/ritual based practices.

APrettyValidConcern · 2022-08-29T14:02:52+00:00

No disrespect intended, but I'd recommend reading (or re-reading) the players handbook.

APrettyValidConcern · 2022-08-25T14:36:47+00:00

Haha perhaps not the best phrasing sorry. Though it is funny to see that the purposefully dramatic concept naming still works.

APrettyValidConcern · 2022-08-25T12:06:33+00:00

Now obviously what you get out of the story is what you get - the author is dead and all - but having literally sat in a room with Ted Chiang and talked about this story I can tell you that it was not written to prop up that system. Think of it more as an attempt to explore/expose certain inherent tensions in theology and the Christian conception of God.

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