P’16s – your Big Day is almost here! There are tons of seniors back from Beach Week/Postexams who are mobbing the Quad right now picking up their Commencement tickets and caps and gowns from the Bookstore. It’s a happy sight to see. If you haven’t […]
Since Commencement is coming up on Monday, now is the time to start sending all prayers, positive thoughts, good vibes, etc. for us to have great weather. So please, take a moment to think good thoughts for us. Everyone wants to graduate on the Quad. […]
Every year, I try to provide some unofficial tips for our P’16 parents and families coming for Commencement. I am assuming, of course, that everyone has referenced the Commencement web site, looked at the FAQ for parents, etc. So here is my […]
The Daily Deac is on the road – so for the next couple of days, we’ll give you a few of our favorite pictures from Ken Bennett’s archive. Today’s topic is Commencements past. Hopefully this will give all our parents and families something to look […]
This is the time of year that is bittersweet for me. I am so excited to welcome our new Class of 2020 (and their P’20 parents and families) to campus, but I am sad to see our Class of 2016 graduate and have them (and […]
Today is the second (and final) Campus Day for Accepted Students. I have been perched in Zick’s all morning because it is raining. Had Campus Day been *any other day* this week, the weather would have been beautiful. We got a bad roll of the […]
Your students are probably aware of CollegeHumor.com, a website filled with college-appropriate humor (read: some adults might find some of the jokes offensive, but typically the humor kills with the 18-24 year old set). They may not have known that a Wake grad was co-founder of CollegeHumor.com. […]
Big news on this Black and Gold Friday, Deac families, and especially the P’16s. We have announced our Commencement speaker: “Eboo Patel, a leading voice for interfaith cooperation and the founder and president of Interfaith Youth Core (IFYC), will deliver Wake Forest University’s commencement […]
Here’s a “minute from Wake Forest” today. It was a chilly morning, so I was hoofing it as fast as I could across the Quad to Reynolda, where I had a meeting. As I scurried by, I saw all these tags hanging from […]
This past Friday was Campus Day for Accepted Students (the first of two, the other will be Friday, April 22nd). There were 400ish prospective families with us, and of those I talked to during the registration period, it seemed pretty evenly split between students who […]
