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What Your Deacs Are Seeing

I happened to be on the Quad this morning and in the Benson Center. Here’s a glimpse at some of the signs and advertisements your Deacs are seeing. Lots of great movie options to see, body positivity events, lectures and drop-ins. Your students will have […]


Comparison is the thief of joy

Two of my very favorite people on campus (and you know who you are!) turned me on to the quote by Theodore Roosevelt, “Comparison is the thief of joy.” Let me repeat it for emphasis. Big and bold: Comparison is the thief of joy. I […]


For those with high school students

Happy Monday, Deac families!  It’s been a grey and drizzly morning and I have been jammed in meetings and other things, so today will be a quick blog. While most of the time we talk about the smorgasbord of bites we hope your students will […]


Happy Lunar New Year!

There was a treat for your Deacs in the Pit today. The Deacon Dining, Chinese Studies Club, and Chinese Students and Scholars Association collaborated for the first time to celebrate the Chinese New Year in the Pit. Students could enjoy a Chinese buffet, wrap their own […]


Grammy-winning artist tonight

A very quick Daily Deac today.  The sun has blessedly come out again, so everyone seems a lot cheerier. And since the weather is better, there is no reason for your Deacs not to go to the Secrest Artists Series event tonight: Tenor Ian […]


Haiku

Today is absolutely a miserable weather day at Wake. You can see from the Quad Cam that it is gray and there is so much water it is pooling in spots on the Quad.  Let me try to describe the current scene on campus


Seen on Campus

Today’s Daily Deac is all photos. Here’s some of what your students might have seen on the Quad…     In and around the Benson Center…     And […]


Throwback Thursday

I was up in Farrell Hall this morning in the 10-11 am hour, and the joint was jumping. No shortage of students who were out there doing everything from studying to eating breakfast to surfing the net on their laptops. The place was filled with […]


The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

Happy Humpday, Deac families! You made it to the halfway point in the week! Here’s two quick updates today. The Good: Margot Lee Shetterly, the author of Hidden Figures, will be here speak at 7 p.m. in Wait Chapel on February 5.  Hidden Figures is […]


5 Adjectives

Today has been jammed so instead of a Five Senses post, figured I’d try five adjectives: Slick – this morning campus woke up to frozen ground and some slippery spots. There was a lot of rain in the last day or two, and all that […]


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