{"id":14580,"date":"2026-02-26T09:54:29","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T14:54:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/first-year-experience\/?p=14580"},"modified":"2026-02-27T13:07:22","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T18:07:22","slug":"welcome-to-bates-from-the-fye-team-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/first-year-experience\/2026\/02\/26\/welcome-to-bates-from-the-fye-team-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to Bates From the FYE Team!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Thursday, February 26, 2026<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/first-year-experience\/first-year-experience-values\/\">First-Year Experience (FYE)<\/a> Team extends you a warm welcome as a member of the Bates class of 2030! We are so excited to welcome you to campus in the fall. As you finish out your high school experience and look forward to summer, we\u2019re writing with some important information about what to expect over the coming months.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Stay updated with your inbox<\/strong>: Bates will send you important information via email. In late May, you\u2019ll be invited to claim your Bates network account, which will give you access to your Bates email, the Garnet Gateway student portal, and many other platforms. Important information about course registration, which will happen in July, will also be sent to your inbox.<br><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Follow <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/bates2030_official\"><strong>the official Bates Class of 2030 Instagram<\/strong><\/a>, where you and your classmates can introduce yourselves. The FYE Team will also be posting updates about what\u2019s happening on campus, and important Bates traditions that you can look forward to engaging with as a Batesie.<br><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/first-year-experience\/orientation-schedule\/\"><strong>Check out important upcoming dates, as well as the preliminary Orientation schedule here<\/strong><\/a>. The full Orientation schedule will be released in June.<br><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Start to get excited about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/first-year-experience\/aesop\/\"><strong>AESOP &#8211; the Annual Entering Student Orientation Program<\/strong><\/a> &#8211; a 3 day, 2 night trip during Orientation week that will immerse you in Maine! Trips take place all over the state, and include everything from community engagement to rock climbing. If you\u2019re not a big fan of camping in the great outdoors, don\u2019t worry &#8211; there are trips that return to campus every day, too, so you can sleep in your dorm room. Fall 2026 AESOP trips will be posted soon!<br><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Speaking of your dorm room, one of the things on your mind might be <strong>where you\u2019re going to live in your first year at Bates! <\/strong>You\u2019ll submit your Housing and Roommate Preferences Form in June, but while you wait, we invite you to check out the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/housing\/housing-tour-first-year\/\">Housing Tour for First-Years<\/a>, as well as the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/admission\/virtual-tour\/\">Virtual Tour of campus<\/a> to help you start to envision life on campus.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>We\u2019re looking forward to getting to know you &#8211; in the meantime, please don\u2019t hesitate to contact us via <a href=\"mailto:fye@bates.edu\">fye@bates.edu<\/a> or 207.755.5900.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/first-year-experience\/first-year-experience-team\/\">The Bates First-Year Experience Team<\/a><br><em>Michael Rocque, Professor of Sociology and Associate Dean of the Faculty&nbsp;<br>Kim Trauceniek, Senior Associate Dean of Students<br>Nick Dressler, Associate Dean of Students for Residence Life and First-Year Experience<br>Catie Luedee, Associate Director for Outdoor Education and Programs<br>Luke Allen \u201822, Coordinator of Campus Life Programming and First-Year Experience<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thursday, February 26, 2026 The First-Year Experience (FYE) Team extends you a&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":851,"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-14580","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\/14580","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\/851"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/first-year-experience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14580"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/first-year-experience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14580\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14635,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/first-year-experience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14580\/revisions\/14635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/first-year-experience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/first-year-experience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/first-year-experience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}