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Finals

Finals are always a harrowing time on campus. We have such high-achieving students, and they tend to be perfectionistic people-pleasers. They want to get good grades, they want to make sure they don’t disappoint you. Grades are perhaps the most obvious yardstick to measure what […]


ZSR Decor

Administrators get the end-of-the-semester-crazies too: yesterday I listed the wrong last name for our wonderful guest blogger. She is Emily Beeland (’19) and she deserves credit for some great blogging over the last few semesters. Wet noodle for me. One of the traditions of finals […]


Acronym-heavy day

Today is LDOC – the Last Day of Class. While normally this would be a day that is fun and lighthearted (the end of classes! hooray!), I cannot help but have a heavy, heavy heart. Our friends to the south at UNC-Charlotte had a campus […]


Getting close now

Today is the day before LDOC (the Last Day of Classes). One more day of formal classes, and then it is off to the races towards final exams. Is it just me, or did the semester breeze by in a flash?? It is unseasonably warm […]


Move Out, Not Throw Out

I’m at an all-day staff meeting today, so this is a pre-posted blog with content from my friends in the Office of Sustainability. Updated to add: We had two broadcast emails go to students, faculty, and staff on Sunday and Monday. The first was to […]


A hale and hearty THANK YOU

Happy LFOC (Last Friday of Classes) to all. No doubt this is going to be a busybusybusy weekend for our Deacs as they finish classes and prep for finals, which start May 3rd. But first, let me say a hale and hearty THANK YOU to […]


Today we have a *BIG* opportunity

There is a great opportunity out there today: today is our Day of Giving (or as we are calling it this year, Matchstravaganza. A lot is at stake here – if we get 1,000 gifts, an anonymous donor will provide a $50,000 match. That is […]


As the end of the semester approaches

It’s that time of year – when students are looking their various syllabi for their classes and are anticipating what feels like a mountain of work: final projects, the last big paper of the class, and of course final exams. Students at this point in […]


Late Night Food Run & Deep Conversation

A final thought this week for our end-of-semester bucket list: have a deep conversation with friends over a late night food run. Back in my time at Wake, we did this by going to Krispy Kreme around 11 at night, getting a dozen donuts, and […]


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