Today I am bringing you an updated version of a Daily Deac from a few years ago. This has to do with fear of failure. Wake Forest is filled with high achieving students who have a long track record of success. Research on the current […]
Spring Break is coming up (March 9-17). That means a lot of our students will be headed somewhere – sometimes home, or to a friend’s home, to Wake Alternative Break (a great series of service projects), or perhaps on vacation. If your Deac is going […]
One of the things your students might see on campus this week is students, faculty, and/or staff wearing yellow ribbons. That’s because it is Tie a Yellow Ribbon Week, which is designed to raise awareness of – and show support for – survivors of rape […]
I thought I had posted this yesterday before the deadline for it to be sent out – only to discover it was still in draft form. Oops. So bringing this to you a day late and a dollar short, as my P’92 dad was fond […]
It’s a soggy Friday here at Mother So Dear. Rain, rain, go away! We had a question come in via another department – a Wake family member had wanted to know about doing something special for their Deac’s birthday. This particular family member knew that if […]
Today’s Daily Deac is sharing information from Residence Life & Housing about the housing selection process for current students (note: no action needed for incoming first-years in the Class of 2023 – their process takes place in the summer). There is also good info in […]
We had an interesting night last night: it started sleeting around the time I went home from work, and then at times throughout the evening we had big wet snowflakes falling. It was never cold enough for it to stick on the ground, though there […]
We have great news from our new and dynamic department of Engineering. 43 students have declared a major in Engineering. What is more impressive is that, according to department chair Olga Pierrakos, the national averages show that engineering programs lose about 40-60% of their students […]
Today’s Daily Deac was written by our periodic guest blogger, Emily Beeland (’19). As a second semester senior, I’ve had time to experience a lot of the unique experiences that make up a Wake Forest education. These range from seeing the fabulous Renee Elise Goldsberry […]
Today students got an email regarding the housing selection process for the next academic year. You can read it here. I get headlines every day from The Chronicle of Higher Education, which is one of the best-known sources for writing about all things higher […]