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Business and Enterprise Management: Sarah Gerlach

Business and Enterprise Management: Sarah Gerlach

Josie Scratchard, Copy Chief April 27, 2023

If you could be a Renaissance person or a specialist, which would you choose? On one hand, you could perform many tasks well, or you could excel at only one task. Sarah Gerlach doesn’t want to choose....

Interdisciplinary Studies: Will Zimmermann

Interdisciplinary Studies: Will Zimmermann

Aaron Nataline, Sports Editor April 27, 2023

It’s easy to be intimidated by the accomplishments of the talented students who attend Wake Forest. I felt that intimidation in full force as I watched a short film both co-written and directed by Will...

Mathematical Business: Gracie Stanek

Mathematical Business: Gracie Stanek

Breanna Laws, Print Managing Editor April 27, 2023

For graduating senior and mathematical business major Gracie Stanek, business runs in the family. “My mom, my dad and my brother all have accounting degrees,” Stanek said. “I think a lot of people...

English: Maren Beverly

English: Maren Beverly

Maryam Khanum, Multimedia Managing Editor April 27, 2023

Maren Beverly’s favorite classes have always been her English classes. Hailing from West Hartford, Conn., Beverly described her high school English teachers as incredibly strong and inspiring and credits...

Religious Studies: Conor Metzger

Religious Studies: Conor Metzger

Virginia Noone, Photography Editor April 27, 2023

On the very last day students could apply to be in the Wake Forest Class of 2023, Conor Metzger decided to throw in his application after casually chatting with family friends. He said he had only applied...

Classical Languages: Gray Rucker

Classical Languages: Gray Rucker

Maddie Stopyra, News Editor April 27, 2023

Gray Rucker learned advanced Latin grammar through a semester-long campaign in Dungeons & Dragons in LAT 350.  “You roll the dice, and if your character is going to slay Medusa or something,...

Physics: Ariana Yu

Physics: Ariana Yu

Josie Scratchard, Copy Chief April 27, 2023

Many children dream of becoming a princess, a space cowboy or an entertainer, and for the majority of them, it is rare that dreams become reality. But for Arina Yu, her dream of pursuing science became...

Accountancy: Maddie Zietsman

Accountancy: Maddie Zietsman

James Watson, Life Editor April 27, 2023

Maddie Zietsman hadn’t heard about Wake Forest until the summer before her senior year of high school, but when she strolled through the Reynolda Campus for the first time on a warm spring day, when...

Critical and Creative Media: Parker Beverly

Critical and Creative Media: Parker Beverly

Virginia Noone, Photography Editor April 27, 2023

Parker Beverly often gets teased by her friends for having an old soul and connecting more to older generations than her own. This characteristic has driven her love of history and storytelling, which...

German Studies: Sydney Glickson

German Studies: Sydney Glickson

Oliver Hale, Contributing Writer April 27, 2023

Sydney Glickson did not plan on being a German studies major. At least, not until this year. Glickson was originally going to major in physics — but in the world of private equity, she felt that a physics...

Mathematical Economics: Andrew Keller

Mathematical Economics: Andrew Keller

Shaila Prasad, Opinion Editor April 27, 2023

Andrew Keller came to Wake Forest with one thing figured out: he definitely did not want to go to the business school. But as for most students who don’t know what they want to do, and like science,...

Statistics: Elizabeth MacDonald

Statistics: Elizabeth MacDonald

Aine Pierre, Online Managing Editor April 27, 2023

For all her award-winning work with numbers, statistics major Elizabeth MacDonald’s greatest mathematical feat may well be how much she can do with only 24 hours in a day. A member of Wake Forest’s...

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