Blue and Gray Friday
Normally it is Black and Gold Friday here at Mother So Dear, but we have a storm that is about to roll over campus, so it is more like Blue and Gray Friday. (For those of you who are observing Black and Gold Friday by […]
Etiquette
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 […]
Several news items of note
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 […]
It’s HOT
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 […]
Advice for our P’17s (and maybe a preview for our P’18s)
So a friend and colleague sent me a link to this series of podcasts; this ran a couple of weeks ago in the New York Times. Thought this might be good info for any lingering P’17s, maybe a preview of things to come for our […]
Campus safety
Happy Black and Gold Friday, Deac families. Hope you are closing out the end to a great week! This was featured in our July Wake Parents and Families e-newsletter, but I wanted to repeat it here because I know safety is always a big concern […]
Orientation advice from a P’19
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 […]
Family Weekend registration begins tomorrow (July 18)
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 […]
Where In the World
I am en route back to Winston today, so I am grateful to have some Where In the World Are Wake Foresters? pictures to pre-post. It is such fun to see where in the world our Deacs are! Here is Cameron McClure ’19, a Business […]
Several items of note for our P’21 families
This morning I got a hold of a PDF of the Parents and Families Orientation brochure. For those of you who are looking for the schedule, here it is: WFU_Parent-Orientation-brochure_2017. Heads up: for much of the time on Weds. afternoon and Thursday, you and your […]