<p>Hi again. Great answers btw. I got the huge packet today. </p>
<p>What is the Dining situation like? Where can you eat with the meal plans? Is 14/week still too much for someone who will rarely see home?</p>
<p>with the meal plans you can eat at the pit or the mag room. i personally like the mag room take-out option they added this year; you get better food than the pit AND you get to take it back to your room or wherever instead of eating there. plus you can save some in your fridge for later, when you're studying at 2 am or coming home from a party and starving. this year i think they've added an "all-in-one" option that includes benson, and while benson is, in my opinion, so much better than the pit, i think the all-in-one option also costs more, and you still have to get a minimum of 14 meals/week. the 14 meal minimum is overkill, so making you pay even more is ridiculous. i promise you, you will NOT eat that much. it doesn't matter how rarely you'll see home; you simply won't eat that much. save your money and get the minimum (which is less, i think, for students living in palmer and piccolo); if you need any more food, you can buy it at benson or go off campus.</p>
<p>Regarding bringing a car from Texas: I did it, and from South Texas too. However, I didn't do it my freshman year. I think that worked out pretty well, because I had to make friends with people who did have cars. I also thought it was good because I didn't have an escape route when I was feeling trapped the first semester--I had to hang in there and figure things out (and I'm so glad I did!). The one disadvantage is a difficulty with getting around Winston-Salem. It's hard to do volunteer work or go downtown on a Friday (no public transportation, although taxi prices aren't bad). It's also tough to get over to concerts, etc. in Greensboro. Like I said, I don't think I missed too much by not having access to a car my freshman year, but after I learned how to handle Wake, it's been nice to have the freedom to break out of the bubble on my own schedule.</p>
<p>This may seem like a bizarre question. Are there formals at Wake Forest. I wanted to know what kind of clothes to send with my freshman D next year and wanted to know if there are any dances or events that require formal or semi-formal attire. Thanks for all of your great advice.</p>
<p>The sororities and frats have formals. The ballroom dance club usually sponsors a Christmas formal. This past year, we had the inauguration ball fpr the new president that was formal (but that's the only time that one will happen). So if your D is rushing, yes, there will be at least a couple of formals; if not, it's still possible. Maybe you could mail something to her if it came up? There's not a bunch of room for dresses in the closet.</p>
<p>correct me, anyone, if i'm wrong, but the only real "dress up" affair the school had this year was the inaugural ball which, obviously, doesn't happen every year. so the school doesn't really have formals and semi-formals, but the fraternities and sororities do, so if you think your daughter might be invitied to and interested in going to a fraternity formal (and that you'd allow her to go; they tend to go away for a weekend, to the mountains and beach in the fall and spring, respectively), she'll probably want to bring formal attire. if she'd be interested in joining a sorority, none of that happens until second semester, so you wouldn't have to worry about appropriate attire until winter break.
some girls also wear sundresses to football games, so if your daughter is interested in that kind of thing, she'll want to pack a few.</p>
<p>Hey, I was flipping throught the res life pamphlet and there's so many bike racks around with bikes on them. </p>
<p>Since WFU has such a huge campus and there no guarantee that you'll get housing near your classes, should people bring bikes? And I won't bring a car so is it ok to bike into town, like to go to B&N or Krispy Kreme (mmmm...)?</p>
<p>I don't think that anyone calls the Wake Forest campus huge. You can probably walk end to end in ten minutes. If you find out that you've been placed in Palmer or Piccolo, you might want to consider bringing a bike, but I really doubt it would be worth it even then. And if you're housed in any of the other freshman dorms, there's really no point in a bike. Except for the kids in Palmer and Piccolo, the freshmen live closer to the classroom buildings than anyone else.</p>
<p>And about riding into town, you're talking about some pretty large roads to get to Krispy Kreme (especially when you can get them in Benson, although not hot). Like others have said, it's not a problem getting around without a car. There are plenty of people in the dorm who will be doing grocery store/Wal-Mart runs.</p>
<p>Yes, my son said you can walk from the freshman parking lot, which is just off campus to the other side of campus where fresh. dorms are in about 10 min.</p>
<p>I couldn't find a better thread to ask this, so I'll just ask here. Do students keep their computers over the summers?</p>
<p>I assume you mean the laptops they get issued from Wake? If so, then yes they keep them.</p>
<p>Yes, we do keep them. You'll get your computer on move-in day, and you keep it through the summer after your sophomore year. Then, when you move in the fall of your junior year you'll exchange it for your second computer (unless you're abroad that semester, in which case you'll get your new computer in January of your junior year).</p>
<p>yea. i think so.</p>