New Orleans University

New Orleans University is the university that Aislinn O'Brien, Charlotte "Charli" Abrams, and Nathaniel "Nate" Peet graduated from.

Prior to Aislinn, Charli, and Nate attending NOU, both of Aislinn's parents, Brita and Liam O'Brien, attended as well.

Aislinn and Nate were co-nominees for valedictorian and Aislinn and Charli lived together in an on-campus student apartment.

Author's Commentary
New Orleans University is a fictional public university based on the real life University of New Orleans. I attended UNO, as did my father.

In the original draft, I used UNO instead of NOU, but I changed it because like many universities, UNO doesn't have valedictorian and salutatorian distinctions. It was important for me to have that story line, so I created a school.

Like Aislinn and Charli, I lived in an on-campus student apartment.