Nearly every summer, I look around campus and see the construction projects and think ‘there is no way this will all be ready for Move-In’ – and yet every summer, it all gets done. But something about flipping the calendar from July to August adds […]
This is a message mostly geared towards our new P’21 incoming parents and families – but perhaps our seasoned families can relate too. Yesterday, incoming first year students were emailed their residence hall assignments and roommate assignments, and this tends to be a moment of […]
Today’s Daily Deac is a preview of coming attractions – and a lesson in campus culture for the new P’21 parents and families. One of the signature events of the fall semester is Hit the Bricks, and your Deacs should plan to be a […]
This is not your ordinary July-almost-August at Mother So Dear. Temps this weekend were in the low 80s, which is practically unheard of at this time of year. It was a perfect combination of sunny with a cool breeze and I suspect most of Winston-Salem […]
Normally it is Black and Gold Friday here at Mother So Dear, but we have a storm that is about to roll over campus, so it is more like Blue and Gray Friday. (For those of you who are observing Black and Gold Friday by […]
Today’s Daily Deac is about etiquette. There are all sorts of unwritten rules and social conventions in life, and some of these are widely-known, others you have to learn. I’m a huge fan of not making people learn the hard way if you can instead be […]
Today we’ve got a few news items to report. The first is about meal plans: “Interested in changing your Fall 2017 meal plan? If so, the deadline date to request a meal plan decrease is August 1, 2017. The deadline date to request a meal plan […]
Much of the country is sweltering right now, I know, but Winston-Salem feels particularly steamy this week. It’s been in the low 90s and very sunny, which means everyone is trying to stay inside and stay cool. You can see from the Quad Cam […]
So a friend and colleague sent me a link to this series of podcasts; this ran a couple of weeks ago in the New York Times. Thought this might be good info for any lingering P’17s, maybe a preview of things to come for our […]
Happy Black and Gold Friday, Deac families. Hope you are closing out the end to a great week! This was featured in our July Wake Parents and Families e-newsletter, but I wanted to repeat it here because I know safety is always a big concern […]
