Today’s Daily Deac is about etiquette. There are all sorts of unwritten rules and social conventions in life, and some of these are widely-known, others you have to learn. I’m a huge fan of not making people learn the hard way if you can instead be […]
Today we’ve got a few news items to report. The first is about meal plans: “Interested in changing your Fall 2017 meal plan? If so, the deadline date to request a meal plan decrease is August 1, 2017. The deadline date to request a meal plan […]
Much of the country is sweltering right now, I know, but Winston-Salem feels particularly steamy this week. It’s been in the low 90s and very sunny, which means everyone is trying to stay inside and stay cool. You can see from the Quad Cam […]
We are a few short weeks from Move-In and Orientation, which is so exciting for all of us. I received an email from a P’19 parent with some thoughts and advice about Orientation and the transition to college, which this parent gave me permission to […]
I know I told y’all there would be no Daily Deacs for a few days, but I got this email on Friday and wanted to be sure you all saw it. ——————- From: Office of the Dean of Students and Athletics Subject: Family Weekend registration […]
It’s a travel day for me, so I thought I’d include one of our “Where in the World Are Wake Foresters?” pictures. This is Alex Sharp (’20) from Melbourne, Australia. Alex’s father tells us that “Alex is on the Women’s Basketball team and is currently home for […]
Because summer is a slow time for the Daily Deac, thought it might be fun to feature a few short but sweet pieces of advice for your Deacs for the upcoming school year. As with all my advice, it is offered a) free, and b) […]
Tomorrow is Independence Day, and I hope you will have the day off and have some time for fun and fellowship with family and friends. I sat next to two young Marines on a flight home from my first New Student Reception of the season, […]
It’s my 25th reunion this fall, and classmates of mine have been posting in the Class of ’92 Facebook group. So today I am thinking about how much has changed in those 25 years. We had… – no cell phones, but lots of students brought […]
And it is hot on campus – upper 80s and muggy. Met with a family today from the Northeast and was gently reminded that the weather in NJ was going to be hotter today than in Winston-Salem. Don’t hear that very often, do you? There […]
