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Lots of News Today

It’s a brand new week and a great deal to cover today – let’s get right to it. Parking registration is coming up soon for students who wish to bring cars to campus. You can find information specific to your student’s year on the Transportation […]


Faculty and Administration Etiquette

Before we get to the main topic, I want to note that incoming students who are not in compliance with our immunization requirements received this message this afternoon. I try to run this post each summer as we get closer to the start of […]


One Potential Shipping Option

Today we are going to talk about a student entrepreneurial venture that may be of interest: Storage Scholars, who works with shipping items to school (or storing them over the summer once the school year ends). The following message was sent to me by […]


Tall Poppy Syndrome

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 […]


Consider Tuition Insurance

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. […]


An Oft-Overlooked Campus Resource

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 […]


Libraries Have Changed

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 […]


Packing for College

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 […]


Pre-Wall Street Career Track (for first-year students only)

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 […]


A Few Laughs

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 […]


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