Dear Class of 2023,  Congratulations! College graduation is a milestone that I’m sure you all have dreamed of achieving, and you should all be immensely proud that you are graduating from a university...

Since she was a little girl, Maddie Koontz was a classics major in the making. The lore of Greek mythology fascinated her. It all started when she read the “Percy Jackson and the Olympians” series...

To Madison Stafford, the most difficult aspect of learning Russian was the alphabet.  “The worst thing about the alphabet for second language learners is that if you come from English or Spanish...

Though Stamps Scholar Tal Feldman didn’t come to Wake Forest intending to be an economics major, he left as one. He’s also leaving as a Truman and Schwartzmann Scholar, two prestigious awards that...

J De Oliveira Pinheiro is originally from Brazil but attended high school in Mexico. When looking for colleges, he knew he wanted to study in the United States, and he had a gut feeling that Wake Forest...

Molly Blackburn is an integral piece of the mathematics community at Wake Forest. Not only is she a dedicated volunteer at the Math and Stats Center — a free, in-person tutoring space — but she is...

When Joy Oguama arrived at Wake Forest, she knew she was going to expand on her high school successes in math and science by majoring in a STEM field, but her initial plan to study statistics was sidelined...

Former Washington Post publisher Philip Graham once said that journalists write the first draft of history. To some, that’s just a saying, but to Katie Fox, a history major, editor-in-chief of The Howler...

 Caroline Kernell is a highly-accomplished Biochemistry & Molecular Biology (BMB) major hailing from Houston, TX. With advice from her a cappella director Kate Hanson — and a semester of experience...

When coming into college, many students are told to pick a profitable major or one that will set them up to easily find a job upon graduation. Sometimes this works out, the match is compatible and the...

Every year, the Old Gold & Black features a graduating nominee from each major. These majors are the exemplars of the departments from which they are graduating, but all of them have a unique story...

In Latin, the verb ending “bam” indicates something one did in the past. For example, the Latin word vincabam means, roughly, “I succeeded”. In the Classical Studies major, one person who definitely...