Because it is Commencement season (for colleges and high schools), people will be talking about Commencement speeches: who was good (prediction: Stephen Colbert!), who fizzled out, etc. One of the best Commencement speeches I’d ever heard was at a high school. It talked about an old […]
For our P’15 (Parent of a Class of 2015 graduate) families, Commencement is a wonderful time to take pictures. Your students have called this place home for 4 years – or 5 – and are getting ready to depart for Whatever Is Next. Hopefully they […]
We’ve been slammed in our office so I have not had a chance to watch the Commencement stage being set, but I am sneaking glimpses via the Quad Cam when I can. So far, so good! Looks like the center section is starting to […]
This past Friday afternoon, we launched the Newstudents.wfu.edu website, which will be the place for the Class of 2019 (and their parents and families) to learn everything they need to know about beginning life at Wake Forest. This site will have information added to […]
I would expect within the next few days, they will start work on getting the Quad ready for Commencement. If you are a fan of the Quad Cam, you may want to keep it open in one of your browser tabs or bookmark it […]
If LDOC was Last Day of Classes, today is LDOF – Last Day of Finals. The home stretch. Then they’ll have 105 or so days of summer before returning to Wake in the fall. During the time between Commencement for the seniors and Orientation for […]
It’s finally getting to the “hot” stage in our weather year. We have been around the mid-80s both yesterday and today, as well as sunny. For those students who have already left campus for Post Exams/Beach Week, they must be enjoying some fine weather. The number […]
One word: glasses. I was in the ZSR Starbucks this morning and couldn’t quite put my finger on what seemed different. And then I realized – it was so many students in glasses. Particularly young women. Normally you don’t see a ton of glasses on […]
Reading Day is the day before final exams begin. It’s one day off to prep for the finals to come. Today I was in the center part of campus between 8:20-10:20 am and I could have counted the students I saw on one hand. Not […]
LDOC = Last Day of Classes. And it is here, hard as that might be to believe. My good colleagues in the Wellbeing office who spearhead our Thrive efforts are doing their part to help students have manage stress and have a little fun as […]