If your student is not graduating, you will hopefully have him (or her) home for the summer. If having deep conversations is part of your normal parent-child dynamic, the summer might be a great time for you to ask some questions that might help your […]
For parents and families of graduating seniors, we like to offer you a few thoughts and suggestions on the happiest day of the year on campus: Commencement. Your mission – should you choose to accept it – is to begin saying prayers and sending […]
I was at the ZSR Library early yesterday – well, early for students, 8:30 am – and when I walked in to Starbucks it was already well-saturated with studying students. They have moved into ‘finals fashion’ – old t-shirts, exercise pants, etc. It’s not just […]
Finals continue, and today your poor students have miserable, cold, and rainy weather to accompany their studying and tests. We wish them the best as they wrap up the semester and finish their time on campus. As promised, we are going to continue our look […]
It’s Friday and final exams begin. While your students are busy studying, taking exams and/or packing their belongings in their residence hall, we thought we’d give you a look back at the 2012-13 academic year in pictures. Special thanks to our remarkable University Photographer, Ken […]
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 […]
