It’s Reading Day on campus. That is the one day break between classes ending and final exams beginning. The day is grey and overcast. It is neither cold nor hot. Somehow that seems appropriate. Looming finals always felt ominous to me as a student, and […]
It’s May Day, and the last day of classes before finals. Depending on how you look at it, this May Day could be one of several things: – Mayday as a distress call. Wikipedia defines it this way: “Mayday is an emergency procedure word used internationally as a distress […]
Yesterday as I was driving home, I noticed that there is new fencing being installed along the norther border of campus. The fencing is on the stretch of land and buildings along Polo Road, and it appears that it will cut back down toward campus […]
Every week during the school year, the Parents’ Page publishes a message for first-year parents. These messages are meant to help shed some light on things first-year students might be experiencing – whether homesickness, midterm stress, learning to interact with professors, etc. – and how […]
Today ends the last full week of classes. So it’s the last Friday of the ‘regular’ part of the semester. Classes will finish on Wednesday, and then there will be Reading Day and the onslaught of final exams, and packing up the room, and getting […]
As we mentioned the other day, we’re going to spend the occasional Daily Deac highlighting some of our favorite places and spaces on campus. If you read yesterday’s Daily Deac (12:30 Wednedsay), one of my lasting impressions of sitting on the Quad in […]
Deac families, today I spent about 1/2 hour up on the Quad. I want you to experience it as I did. Here goes: You see… Four young men playing ping pong in front of Reynolda. Then you see the occasional sprint as one of […]
Every Wake Forester experiences the campus in his or her own way. You find your favorite times of day (or night), favorite seasons, favorite places to be alone or places to eat or places to study. And as we get closer to the end of […]
It was a sunny but cooler weekend this weekend, Deac families, and there was a ton of stuff happening on campus. It was a baseball weekend, with our Deacs playing Boston College. In a very Pro Humanitate gesture, proceeds from the baseball series against Boston […]
Deac families, it’s been a busy week on campus. Today is the second of two Campus Days, where we are welcoming our accepted students and families in the Class of 2017. There are about 400+ families here, and unlike last Friday’s event, today is overcast […]
