Happy Friday!
In this Issue:
- Baseball video
- Housing Selection information sessions next week
- Be kind to your roommate group
- Dr. Wente named Vice-Chair of ACC board
- WFU in the News, Feb. 5-11
- Founders Day photostory and link to recording
My ’27 at NC State just went through housing selection this morning, so that is on my mind today, and I want to share a few other things on this overcast Friday at Mother So Dear. First up, something so fun!
Baseball video
Our baseball team is phenomenal of course. And this video to usher in the new season (which opens today!) is equally phenomenal. If you aren’t excited for baseball season after seeing this, there’s nothing I can do for you. Go Deacs!
Housing Selection information sessions next week
This might be especially relevant for P’27s, as well as families of other students who have not gone through housing selection themselves: I’m thinking of students who had been added to their Greek block as rising sophomores (and didn’t have to pick their own rooms), but are now rising juniors who need to select.
There are Housing Selection information sessions coming up next week Feb. 20-22, and I would strongly encourage our ’27s and first-time room selection students to attend. It is helpful to understand the mechanics of the process in advance, as well as resources available to assist students in the process.
Be kind to your roommate group
As they think about housing selection, students should be considering things like ‘should I live with my best friend, or do I need some separation between my living space and my social space?‘ and ‘do I have a plan A, B, and C in case the building/roommate group I wanted doesn’t pan out as planned?’ But they should also be thinking about their roommate/roommate group and how to handle the unexpected. What do I mean by this?
I always encourage students to have frank, transparent discussions with their proposed roommate groups in advance of housing selection, so you avoid the situation where one person suddenly finds a single open and they grab it, or gets an offer to be pulled into another group in what they perceive is a more desirable building, leaving the other 3 people in their roommate group in the lurch. That causes all kinds of hurt feelings and can have a domino effect of busting up roommate groups students thought were previously agreed upon and were solid.
So encourage your students to have a gentleperson’s discussion/agreement about whether they will all stick together as a roommate group – even if someone gets a better offer, etc. It is much easier to talk about that upfront than deal with hurt feelings on the back end.
Dr. Wente named Vice-Chair of ACC board
In case you missed it, the ACC announced President Susan R. Wente’s appointment as Vice-Chair of the ACC Board of Directors. “It is an honor to serve the conference as Vice-Chair of the ACC Board of Directors,” President Wente said. “Our league is committed to excellence in academics and athletics, and I look forward to strengthening our league’s position in the ever-evolving intercollegiate landscape together as we move forward.” Read more.
WFU in the News, Feb. 5-11
For those who want to see where Wake Foresters are appearing in local, national, or international media, we have WFU in the News. In this most recent edition, amilies might be especially interested in the story “WFU student Kyan Patel builds business by painting portraits of N.C.’s biggest athletes.”
Founders Day photostory and link to recording
Founders Day was yesterday, and it was a really lovely event. The link to the recording is here, and we also have a photostory. I was particularly happy to see the Medallion of Merit presentations – those are the highest honors Wake can bestow – go to our former golf coach, the legendary Dianne Dailey, and esteemed professor emerita of English Claudia Thomas Kairoff. I was an English major and while (sadly) I never took her class (she specialized in a period that was not my favorite), I remember her booming laugh in the halls of the department and how much other English majors loved her.
Make it a great weekend, Deac families! Call your students today!