This appeared in my Facebook feed via the Washington Post: “The 7 things new college students don’t know that drive professors crazy.” Written by a former high school teacher turned college professor, this outlines some of the DON’Ts of interacting with college professors, at […]
Yesterday we had a huge storm at the end of the day. Really high winds, heavy rain, and I hear some parts of Winston got hail (campus included), though I never saw any at my house. Today the weather has been all over the place […]
No pics today, but early this morning I was walking through Reynolda Hall and happened to peek into the Green Room. Looks like most if not all available tables and chairs were taken up with kids studying. At 9:20 in the morning, that is definitely […]
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. […]
