One day, it’s 80 degrees and golden. The next, it’s snowing and blowing, then back to light and warmth. That’s fall in Lewiston, Maine. At Bates, weather notwithstanding, we move seamlessly from one season into another —and relish each step along the way.

For the second straight year and the third time in program history, the women's first varsity eight placed first in the Women's Collegiate Eights at the Head of the Charles Regatta. (Haley Eovine for Bates College)

Pleased with and poised for a new experience, Munashe Machoko ’21 of Harare, Zimbabwe, is one of 110 Bates students who signed up with the Center for Purposeful Work for LinkedIn portraits taken by student photographers near Chase Hall. (Phyllis Graber Jensen/Bates College)

Thai Tran ’19 of Middleton, Mass., assesses his progress in the Olin Arts Center ceramic studio on a pot he made in a course taught by Susan Dewsnap. (Phyllis Graber Jensen/Bates College)

As part of a bipartisan effort to get out the vote spearheaded by Bates Democrats, Bates Republicans, and the Harward Center for Community Partnerships, President Clayton Spencer escorts Bates students to the Lewiston Armory polls on Election Day, Nov. 6. (Phyllis Graber Jensen/Bates College)

Emmy Daigle ’20 of Portland, Ore., ranks fourth all-time at Bates in the 100-yard breaststroke. She and the Bates swimming and diving teams open the 2018–19 season at Wesleyan on Nov. 17. (Brewster Burns for Bates College)