It’s Day 1 of Final Exams, and the logical place for the Daily Deac to focus on is the ZSR Library. Here’s an impressionistic field report (and some pics) from some well-placed sources at the ZSR. “Thursday, Reading Day, started slow, with students taking advantage […]
Today is Reading Day – the one day break between LDOC (Last Day of Classes) and final exams starting. The idea, I suppose, is to give you a day to prepare for finals. Here’s a Reading Day meme for your viewing pleasure. Depending on […]
Today’s Daily Deac takes a look at an innovative class. Mary Dalton, Professor of Communication and Media and Film Studies, taught a seminar this semester on Deadwood and the Western. Mary is a member of the Class of 1983 and her teaching interests within the […]
It’s 1:40 pm and this is the view from the Quad Cam. Grass so green, sky so blue, clouds so white. You can see from the stripes in the grass that they have been mowing. The Quad grass gets a lot of extra […]
After the high of Campus Day and seeing all those smiling faces of new Deacs and new P’20s (parents/families of the new Class of 2020), we had some additional awesome this weekend. First, the men’s tennis team took the ACC Championship! It’s our first […]
Today is the second (and final) Campus Day for Accepted Students. I have been perched in Zick’s all morning because it is raining. Had Campus Day been *any other day* this week, the weather would have been beautiful. We got a bad roll of the […]
Your students are probably aware of CollegeHumor.com, a website filled with college-appropriate humor (read: some adults might find some of the jokes offensive, but typically the humor kills with the 18-24 year old set). They may not have known that a Wake grad was co-founder of CollegeHumor.com. […]
Classes end in 7 days, and students are feeling it. So for today’s Daily Deac, a few memes about college, replete with some pop culture references. You can hang onto these and bit by bit send them to your students if you think they need […]
A common theme that I have heard from some of the freshmen I meet is “I have no idea what I want to major in and I am freaking out about it.” They feel pressure that they should know (but don’t), they are dreading you […]
Time to talk about the smorgasbord of options at Wake Forest. My party line is that one ought to sample plentifully at the buffet of things offered here, and taste a little bit of everything. Especially new things. You would think at the end of […]
