Yesterday my friends and colleagues from Thrive had the Thrive tent set up right outside the entrance to the Pit on the Magnolia Patio. April 5th was National Alcohol Screening Day and students, faculty, and staff could take a brief online alcohol screening and then […]
Today started out quite cool – in the 30s – but is approaching 60s as the afternoon progresses. It’s the kind of day where you have to leave your residence hall with a coat or a sweatshirt but you can shed it once it warms […]
All, for the rest of this week we’re going to be light on Daily Deac content, as I have tons on my plate. Today I went on a hardhat tour of the Reynolds Gym construction area. Let me tell you, the stuff they are doing […]
Today has been an absolutely glorious weather day. It was nice and cool in the morning, still sunny, but not too hot. Yesterday I got my first glimpse of the leaves on the campus trees starting to change colors (and some were even falling in […]
This appeared in my Facebook feed via the Washington Post: “The 7 things new college students don’t know that drive professors crazy.” Written by a former high school teacher turned college professor, this outlines some of the DON’Ts of interacting with college professors, at […]
You are probably all tiring of the descriptions of the superb weather we are having here, but it bears repeating. It. Is. Glorious. Lots on the docket to talk about today, most of it coming in the vein of ‘items on the WFU smorgasboard’. Urge […]
Normally on Fridays at the Daily Deac we encourage you to reach out and have contact with your students. Studies have shown that when parents and students connect on a Friday, the students tend to report less risky behavior that weekend. Wake Forest has been […]
Yesterday and today have been cold, gray, and drizzly. Unless your home area sported worse weather than this, your Deacs were probably not happy to get back here to this kind of climate. Especially because it is so close to finals starting. Students always have […]
After a day that was full of rain yesterday, we have graduated to merely grey and a small chance of rain. If you look out the windows and see trees losing their leaves and grey skies, you might expect it to feel a little colder […]
Hopefully our upperclassmen parents have already heard about Thrive, our campus efforts to promost holistic wellbeing (for all the freshmen parents, you can see the Thrive website and the 8 dimensions of wellbeing). I saw a very interesting article on wellbeing over […]
