{"id":14417,"date":"2025-09-02T11:14:24","date_gmt":"2025-09-02T15:14:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/first-year-experience\/?p=14417"},"modified":"2025-09-02T11:28:14","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T15:28:14","slug":"9-01-today-return-from-aesop-free-ice-cream-and-dinner-info","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/first-year-experience\/2025\/09\/02\/9-01-today-return-from-aesop-free-ice-cream-and-dinner-info\/","title":{"rendered":"9\/01: Today: Return from AESOP, Free Ice Cream, and Dinner Info"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Monday, September 1, 2025<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hello Class of 2029 and new transfer students!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We hope you enjoyed your AESOP trips, and have safe travels back to campus! There will be a free ice cream truck parked in front of Alumni Gymnasium between 3:00pm and 5:30pm today &#8211; swing by and enjoy!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Please remember that you have a scheduled dinner session this evening beginning at 5:45pm (in Commons dining hall for first-years, and Commons 211 for transfers), and then there are events scheduled for after dinner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Finally, <strong>the Fall 2025 course schedule adjustment period known as add\/drop begins tomorrow, <\/strong>September 2, 2025 at 7:00am. You can adjust your course schedule by adding courses that have available seats. Full information on add\/drop was sent to you in an email from the Registrar. If you have any lingering questions, please reach out to your academic advisor via email ASAP.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Be sure to check out your <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/first-year-experience\/orientation-schedule\/\">New Student On-Campus Orientation schedule here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thanks,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Michael Rocque, <em>Professor of Sociology and Associate Dean of the Faculty\u00a0<\/em><br>Kim Trauceniek, <em>Senior Associate Dean of Students<\/em><br>Nick Dressler, <em>Associate Dean of Students for Residence Life and First-Year Experience<br><\/em>Catie Luedee, <em>Associate Director for Outdoor Education and Programs<\/em><br>Luke Allen \u201822, <em>Coordinator of Campus Life Programming and First-Year Experience<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monday, September 1, 2025 Hello Class of 2029 and new transfer students!&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1730,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/first-year-experience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/first-year-experience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/first-year-experience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/first-year-experience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1730"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/first-year-experience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14417"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/first-year-experience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14417\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14418,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/first-year-experience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14417\/revisions\/14418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/first-year-experience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/first-year-experience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/first-year-experience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}