Bobkitten pride! Ira Waldman ‘73 poses with students from Equitas Academy (Los Angeles, CA) ready to rock their new Bates gear!
Members of the Class of 1903 at their 45th Reunion. Will a sheep make it onto campus for this weekend’s festivities? Only time will tell…
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We will be intelligent. Because of the ardor and devotion of the good people of this institution.
We will be passionate. Because Bates allowed us to follow our passions and realize our dreams.
We will be loving. Because the Bates community showed us so much love.
And now, we owe it back. We owe it to the world to be as wonderful as Bates has been to us. So now, we thank you, Bates, for everything you have given us. Thank you for the guidance and the good times. Goodbye, for now.
"The puddle in chaos, Pub Crawl 2013.
Lovely day for a canoe ride across the Puddle!
Campus looks good even in the rain! #ShortTerm
Needham, MA, April, 2013
All roads — and train tracks — lead to Bates! Campus Ave facing the #batesprez house at the turn of the 20th century and today in 2013.
At Bates, we’re all about jumping in. Our deposit deadline is only two days away…time to make the jump!
Spring comes to campus just in time for Short Term!
CrushList Releases Admittedly Cute Ad
It’s spring in the ‘Cac and love is in the air. Well, at least in cyberspace. CrushList, an app pioneered by Bates students Robert Crampton ’13 and Jody Winslow ‘13, just launched its first ad. The ad highlights the unique niche CrushList occupies among other online dating apps such as Tinder (which often leads to no more than a few questionable exchanges you wouldn’t want your mother to see).
#bates2028! Sarah Rorimer ‘03 inspired her first graders with a little Bobcat cheer at P.S. 33 Chelsea Prep in NYC
Best Dorm Room ‘06? Two students relax in their turn of the century Bates dorm.
The CrushList App, or, Love in a Land of Awkwardness
If you’re a person, you’ve probably at some point worried that a crush did not reciprocate your feelings. If you’re most people, you’ve probably at some point failed to act on those feelings out of a fear of rejection. And maybe, just maybe, your fear was unwarranted, and you missed out on something great.
Well, two Bates students have the app for you. Developed by Robert Crampton ’13 and Jody Winslow ’13, CrushList appeared for free in the iTunes app store on March 22nd. To use CrushList, you have to sign in with your Facebook account, then, once there, you add up to seven crushes. You also get informed of the number of people who have listed you as a crush, and if you list each other, the app reveals your names and leaves you to messaging each other (initiated after automatically messaging a random pick-up line off a personally edited list).
(Source: inthecac)
A Big Sister’s Hope: Choose ‘Cac
Ah, to be a young, naive rising senior in high school again.
As 17-year olds around the country start to filter through their college lists by visiting their dreams schools and interviewing with both admins and rising college seniors, it becomes clear that the college process in this day and age (however opaque and daunting it may seem) has really given future applicants a chance to showcase who they are personally rather than considering transcripts and essays alone. My youngest sister has started this process and, after cracking 2000 on her SAT’s, has started making the rounds at our beloved ‘Cac institutions. Interviewing at Bates, Colby, Bowdoin, Hamilton (my current school) and Williams (our father’s alma mater), she has started imagining herself as a member of the student body at one of our prestigious schools. Although my mother attended Barnard in NYC and my other sister is a rising junior at Providence College, I have a feeling she, my youngest sister (in whom I see much of myself and my father), will go ‘Cac.
While she is touring both D3 and D1 schools, I secretly hope she applies and eventually attends one of the 11 New England (and NY) small colleges where we pride ourselves on intellectual curiosity and well-rounded academic growth. We may not graduate with any “practical skills” that we could learn by attending a trade school but we learn to think and learn in ways that many graduates lack. At this time next year, the class of 2013 will be out in the real world trying to feel our way through entry-level jobs, world travels, and growing pains like any other graduating class. However, the alumni networks our schools have created and the real world skills we have learned will prove invaluable in our impending futures.
So to my little sister: I wish you all the best with your college search (but I secretly hope you join the ‘Cac family).
We’ll be waiting here with open arms.
(Source: inthecac)
