Final Thoughts Before Orientation
T minus 24 hours to go and we’ll be seeing 1,250+ new students and their parents and families. Move-in Day is always one of the happiest on campus, and we can’t wait to meet you.
Here are a few final thoughts for those of you who are new parents (and if you are an upperclassmen parent, share any Move-in Day tips by emailing parents@wfu.edu and we’ll try to post them here).
Our special issue of Wake Parents and Families e-newsletter went out yesterday just to new first-year parents and families. It has a lot of factual information, as well as tips and suggestions. (If you are a first-year parent who submitted an email address on your Parent Record Form and you didn’t see the e-newslettter in your inbox, check your spam filter or your junk mail folder to see if it was rerouted there. If your email is searchable, you can search on either the sender “returns@wfu.edu” or the subject line “Wake Parents and Families” to find it. Then add us to your ‘safe senders’ list or mark us as ‘not spam’).
We have an addition to the Orientation schedule. New this year, Wake Forest has a Pre-Graduate School Adviser: Dr. Cecilia Solano. Dr. Solano will be available to talk to parents and students about preparing for a future that includes graduate school. The session for parents will be held on Friday, August 22, 9:45-10:15, Greene Hall 414. The session for students will be held on Monday, August 25, Greene Hall 444 (drop in as you can between 9 and 4).
Keep an eye on the weather for both Thursday and Friday. As of my typing this in the morning, Weather.com predicts a 40% chance of rain. So be thinking about whether you will want rain gear or umbrellas with you. If you’ve already left home without them, the Deacon Shop on campus can be your go-to place, and there is a very close Target on University Parkway, as well as other stores.
We hope that you’ll stop by the Campus Services and Information Fair in the Benson Center tomorrow (8/21) between 8-4. Your students will have a lot of things to do while they are there – and we have a Parent Programs table, and hope you’ll come and say hello and pick up some information from our table. If you did not complete a Parent Record Form (or if you have changes to it since submitting it), there will be a table next to ours where you can complete the form.
Finally, enjoy the experience! The many offices on campus involved in Orientation and Move-In (and there are *many*) try their best to make this a smooth and easy time for you and your students. Have fun when you can – take pictures (and tag them with #WFU18 as you post to Facebook or Twitter or Instagram), hug your students, tell them you are proud of them, meet the hallmates and other parents, talk to staff. We hope this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship between your family and your newly-adopted Wake Forest family!