Mystery Scrabble
It’s Thursday – the home stretch for the week. And it is a lovely day today – cool in the morning, but sunny. It was cold enough to need a jacket, but if you stay outside long enough you can shed it. Was […]
Wake Washington Guest Blog by Emily Beeland
Today’s Daily Deac comes to you from the official guest blogger of the Wake Washington program, Emily Beeland ’19 I cannot believe that Thanksgiving Break is next week – it feels like just yesterday I was moving to D.C. for the start of the semester. […]
Pic of the Day
I’m out today and tomorrow, so today please enjoy some of the best shots from campus via the lens of the incomparable Ken Bennett. Go Deacs!
Veteran’s Day and Kemper Scholars
Class of ’27 is out of school today because his school is observing Veteran’s Day, so I am home with him. Two brief topics to cover: For P’21s who have first year students, there is an opportunity for high achieving students interested in a career […]
Channeling Seattle
We are channeling the Pacific Northwest the last few days. We’ve had a light rain/mist that has been near constant, and it finally feels cold (well, cold for here. It was 48 at lunch). But the dreary and the grey are starting to wear on […]
Senior Fifth
A few years ago, we had an art installation with red solo cups (the ubiquitous party cup), arranged to spell out the words BINGE THINKING, part of a campaign to talk to students about thinking about alcohol differently. Today’s Daily Deac is a heavy one, […]
Black and Gold Friday
Happy Black and Gold Friday – and a hot one here, high 70s. Definitely strangely warm weather for November. One of our faculty members, Professor Barry Trachtenberg of the History department, is going to testify before the U.S. House Committee on the Judiciary next week. Committee Chair […]
Hello, gorgeous!
It is a picture-perfect day on campus today. Temps in the mid 70s, sunny, a light breeze that wafts some of the leaves out of the trees. Really couldn’t be nicer. Pics to prove it below 🙂 A few items of business: We need […]
Pic of the Day
Family Weekend is concluded, and the staff of the Dean of Students office did a terrific job with all the events of the weekend. (And it did not rain during the football game! Which after the last couple of years is a big win!) Today […]
Family Weekend is almost here!
And it is one of my very favorite weekends of the year! Can’t wait to see all the families on campus and watching your pride as you discover how much your Deacs have been blossoming since last you saw them. Because it is a […]
