Every week during the school year, the Parents’ Page publishes a message for first-year parents. These messages are meant to help shed some light on things first-year students might be experiencing – whether homesickness, midterm stress, learning to interact with professors, etc. – and how […]
Today ends the last full week of classes. So it’s the last Friday of the ‘regular’ part of the semester. Classes will finish on Wednesday, and then there will be Reading Day and the onslaught of final exams, and packing up the room, and getting […]
As we mentioned the other day, we’re going to spend the occasional Daily Deac highlighting some of our favorite places and spaces on campus. If you read yesterday’s Daily Deac (12:30 Wednedsay), one of my lasting impressions of sitting on the Quad in […]
Deac families, today I spent about 1/2 hour up on the Quad. I want you to experience it as I did. Here goes: You see… Four young men playing ping pong in front of Reynolda. Then you see the occasional sprint as one of […]
Every Wake Forester experiences the campus in his or her own way. You find your favorite times of day (or night), favorite seasons, favorite places to be alone or places to eat or places to study. And as we get closer to the end of […]
It was a sunny but cooler weekend this weekend, Deac families, and there was a ton of stuff happening on campus. It was a baseball weekend, with our Deacs playing Boston College. In a very Pro Humanitate gesture, proceeds from the baseball series against Boston […]
Deac families, it’s been a busy week on campus. Today is the second of two Campus Days, where we are welcoming our accepted students and families in the Class of 2017. There are about 400+ families here, and unlike last Friday’s event, today is overcast […]
Intern C (’13) blogs today about the DESK project that took place on Monday of this week. ———————— Monday, student organizations gathered on the Mag Quad from 3-7 pm to volunteer at D.E.S.K. (Discovering Education Through Student Knowledge). Beginning in 2000, the goal of […]
Last week, students celebrated the annual week-long celebration: Springfest! Students “sail[ed] into Springfest” on Monday evening where music group, Green River Ordinance and Mandolin Orange played on the Mag Quad. On Tuesday afternoon, the quad became a “marketplace marina” where many local shops and stores brought […]
Our hearts are heavy following the horrific incident at the Boston Marathon. In the past few years, we have seen a good number of incoming first-year students from the Boston area, which means there are a lot of Deac families up there. We are thinking […]
