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Okay, thank you! If I think of anything else as the time comes nearer I will let you know. And it's good to hear I won't have too much of a drive even from Uptown.

Elsewhere people have told me the French Quarter is the safest place in New Orleans because there are always cops there. I mean obviously there are pickpockets or whatever. Ugh. Well, I'm never going to know until I look at places myself, and I probably still won't really know until I've lived somewhere for a while. But thank you for the advice. I'm trying to avoid the Lakeshore area but still not have to drive over 20 minutes. It's proving difficult.

I am going to UNO in August and trying to figure out where to live from far away, which is difficult/impossible, but whatever. I am physically going apartment hunting next month, but until then I'm trying to make flimsy plans about where to look. Anyway, I don't necessarily want to live among the Tulaners because it seems overly far to drive, though I'm not opposed to it. I guess I'm interested in the Marigny because people say it's "artsy" and there's a road that goes directly from there to UNO. But I don't want it to be so artsy everyone is just insane. I have a giant list of sort-of-safe-according-to-a-stranger-on-the-internet neighborhoods but it's basically almost every neighborhood except the fringes of the city, and I need to narrow things down. I am attracted by its closeness to the French Quarter (I can't help it, I love it there) and that it maybe sort of looks like the FQ too. So for these reasons, it's at the top of my list for potential places to live, but I thought I'd ask here. I doubt anyone on this forum actually lives there, because that would be overly coincidental, but if you know someone who does, or just have spent a bit of time there, let me know. Thanks!

Can any New Orleanians give me their opinions about the Marigny?

Thanks everyone! I might take the test again closer to the time I will apply to PhD programs and remember to bring my own earplugs.

I think they were there behind the computer tower but I didn't even think about it. I thought they were like, audio headphones that you needed for some other test. Duh!

Okay, good to know. I guess that just threw me off..... or maybe I'm just making excuses for doing bad haha. Anyway, I found out when I got there that I could bring my own earplugs, but I didn't know that until I got there, so obviously there was nothing I could do about it at that point. I will probably retake it and make sure to bring earplugs.

Hi all, I just took the GRE on Monday and did worse than I was expecting to. I am conditionally accepted for a Masters program, and did well enough to get into that officially, but I wanted to do much better than I did for future PhD options. Anyway, I was expecting to take the test with group of other people taking the same test, and that we would all break together and finish at generally the same time. Instead, the computer lab was full of people taking all kinds of tests, which meant everyone took breaks at different times. Also, my test was scheduled to start at 4:00 PM, and I was to arrive half an hour early, which I did. They ended up letting me start as soon as I got there. My point is, people were coming in and out throughout the entire test. When people would open the door (every few minutes) the people working at the test center would be loudly talking/laughing, and it was totally distracting. The only other people I know who have taken the GRE took it at the same place as me, so I wanted to ask perfect strangers about the location/circumstances of their GREs. Is this just something I'm going to have to deal with as part of standardized test taking, or should I look into retaking it at a different location? Thanks!