Photo Contest Time

Happy New Year all. Hope you enjoyed a great holiday and had a wonderful New Year's. While the rest of America is starting to settle down into the post-holiday season, we are just gearing up! Twelfth Night (the 12th day after Christmas) officially begins the Mardi Gras season here in NOLA. And with Gras, the Super Bowl and an event bigger than those both combined (a.k.a. my 30th birthday party) NOLA will surely be bumpin' for the coming few weeks. 

My amazing team of Social Media Interns from over at TruTU have created two really cool contests for you all coming up. Check them both out, the prizes are sure to please!

For current and former Tulane students: Study Abroad Photo Contest! 

New Orleans is such a unique city that going to school at Tulane is like studying abroad for four years.  However, for those of you who managed to part with this awesome city for a while and study abroad, we want to see pictures of your adventures!  E-mail your coolest, strangest, weirdest, funniest, or scariest picture from your international escapades to our social media intern by January 20th to be entered into our Tulane Admissions Study Abroad Photo Contest. All the photos will be posted in an album on our Tulane Admissions Facebook page by January 21st and the picture that receives the most likes by February 21st will receive a $100 Superior Grill gift card! 

For those admitted to the class of 2017 (congrats, by the way!): Admit Letter Photo Contest! 

You know that admission letter your parents have been proudly whipping out and showing to everyone who will stand still long enough?  Well now it's time to put that letter to good use!  Take a creative picture of yourself holding your admission letter and send it over to our social media intern. We'll post all the picture on our Tulane Admissions Facebook page by April 14 and the owner of picture that receives the most likes will win a $100 Visa gift card and get to have dinner with our President, Scott Cowen, at his beautiful house.  The earlier you send in your picture the more time you have to garner likes so get snapping!

In the spirit of the contest, I'll leave you with some of my best shots from when I studied abroad at Tulane through the Semester at Sea program.

This is in Nara, Japan during the lantern festival. They light the entire city up with lanterns! It is magical. 

This is the Petropavlovsk-Kamchatka peninsula on the east coast of Russia. They have this incredible volcanic range that we sailed into. Even cooler? This photo was taken at midnight on the summer solstice! We were so far north that when the sun would set, it would just barely dip to the horizon line, and then come right back up. 

Here's me on the Great Wall of China. Talk about a sight to see.

Good luck everyone! And check us out on Storify.