The Daily Deac is on the road – so for the next couple of days, we’ll give you a few of our favorite pictures from Ken Bennett’s archive. Today’s topic is Commencements past. Hopefully this will give all our parents and families something to look […]
This is the time of year that is bittersweet for me. I am so excited to welcome our new Class of 2020 (and their P’20 parents and families) to campus, but I am sad to see our Class of 2016 graduate and have them (and […]
This picture was taken several years ago during finals. It is from the library, and was one student’s list of things to do to prep for the exam. It reads: – read over notes again – read over descriptions of articles – […]
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 […]
