Good News Thursday
Have to admit, campus feels very strange without the students here. While we hope they are all having a good time with you or with friends if they made a trip together, we are going to be happy to have them back with us. When […]
Required Reading – ACC Tournament
Yesterday was our Deacs’ chance at the ACC Tournament. It was a tough game – we were down by about 10 at the end of the first half, then we outplayed VA Tech in the second half to make it a close game, but ultimately […]
Senior Oration: Gianna Blundo ’15
Today’s Senior Oration is Humans Are Like Onions, by Gianna Blundo ’15. Enjoy! —————————————— Humans are like onions: we have layers. Skin color, hair, eyes, height, weight…. each of us has our own unique external beauty. However, we often get lost in the superficial differences between […]
Senior Oration: Jim Le ’15
We’re coming down to the wire with our Senior Oration feature. These have been wonderful glimpses into the experiences, thoughts, challenges, and dreams of some of our students. Today we have Breaking the Formula by Jim Le ’15. ——————————- It’s funny how sometimes stereotypes do […]
Friday Roundup
The potential ice or snow event did not happen at Mother So Dear, but it is once again really cold. I was walking around campus this morning and saw a lot of big coats and scarves on students. The sun is out, which helps a […]
Super Soaker
Exactly the last thing your students want as they slog through midterms and projects is a soaking wet, miserable day. And yet, that’s what they are getting. This is how rainy it is: there are pools of water on the Quad as of early […]
A Beautiful Day
It is a beautiful day on campus. We are still riding the Stephen Colbert high; I was talking to some faculty friends earlier today and they say their students are so excited about the announcement that he is our Commencement speaker. The beautiful day extends […]
Big News Today! Stephen Colbert!!!
This might be the biggest Commencement speaker news Wake Forest has seen since we announced then Secretary of State, Colin Powell. Today at 10 am, we announced that the 2015 Commencement speaker will be comedian Stephen Colbert of The Colbert Report. I wish I could have […]
Snow Photos and Senior Oration by Gracie Harrington ’15
As you no doubt heard from your students, we got snow last Wednesday evening. On Thursday morning, our intrepid and award-winning photographer, Ken Bennett, ventured out in the snow to take some pictures of campus. They are in a terrific web site, Snow in the […]
‘Socratic Friday’ with Dr. Michael Sloan’s Classics 261 Class on Greek Myth
A few weeks ago, I had the pleasure of attending a luncheon where there were faculty members at each table and they talked to their non-faculty tablemates about what they taught. I was seated with Dr. Michael Sloan of Classics. He employs some very interesting […]