Today’s post, Tall Poppy Syndrome, is one that historically generates a lot of emails. I like to run it in the fall before the school year begins, just to help plant the seed (pardon the pun) of new students avoiding the compare-and-contrast game with their […]
I am out of the office today, so today’s message encouraging you to consider tuition insurance is a pre-post. Every year, I want to make sure that families consider tuition insurance and make an informed choice about whether this is right for your family. […]
One quick news item before we begin: we sent our Weekly Update to P’26s and also sent a special message to transfer families today; read those here. As we frequently share in the Daily Deac, there are so many resources on campus to help […]
For those within the Daily Deacdom who went to college themselves, you may remember your collegiate library experience as a place where you were not allowed to eat, or drink, or talk. The atmosphere might have felt prim and proper, serious, with copious ssssssshhhh-ing if […]
I am out of the office for the next several days, so I am pre-posting some Daily Deacs to run in my absence. Today we are going to talk about packing for college. We are at mid-July, and our incoming ’26 Deacs will be thinking […]
Today’s message applies only to P’26 families with incoming first-year students. It is information about an upcoming Zoom meeting about our Pre-Wall Street Career track. The track is open to first year students interested in exploring a career in the financial industry. My colleagues in […]
If you went to college yourself, you know that college is a tremendous amount of hard work. But it can also be a lot of fun! Today I took a peek into our photo archive and thought I would show you a few laughs and […]
I’ve got three main topics for you today, Daily Deacers: the Student Health Insurance requirement, construction of the Davis Field road, and this week’s emails to P’26s and ’26s. First things first: I got a message from my friends in the Student Health Service last […]
Today I am sharing The Worry Letter, an oldie-but-goodie from the archives. If you knew me in real life, you’d know I am a weapons-grade worrier myself (it’s part of my genetic makeup; I come from a long line of women who worried). I was […]
For P’26s whose students were registering for classes yesterday, the Office of Academic Advising had a few registration updates to share: Please remind your student to complete and submit the Guided Preregistration Survey (GPS) they received on 5/27 by 11:59 P.M. EDT on Wednesday, July […]