Category: Pre Arrival- stage 2

Try and avoid bringing too much to the dorm, remember that you’ll have to move out at the end of the academic year in May and moving stuff out can be painful. Dorms are small and much of the space is already taken by beds and desks. Kids get one cupboard and one dresser (in…

West Lafayette has a humid continental climate characterized by warm to hot summers, freezing cold winters and highly variable rainfall. You will want to pack for living in a locale that has four distinct seasons. The weather in the Greater Lafayette area can change rapidly and often. Without a doubt, you will hear someone say,…

Booking your hotel is a priority! You don’t want to delay this, as hotels get sold out during BGRi/BGR time. Every year, 10,000 freshmen students and their families descend around the same time in West Lafayette. Of these, half will be out of state and the family will stay in town for at least a…

So having chosen the number of days you will be spending at Purdue in my earlier post Plan Your Itinerary, we can move on to thinking about booking your travel dates. However, you need to be careful when choosing your flights. In order to come to the right choice, you need to:

American families typically come to drop off their kids on the day of the move-in and leave the same day or the day after. For them, it will seem strange that you would want to spend more than that time for dropping off your kid at college. The typical American kid also has probably been…