Stories about "Student Life"
Slideshow: This Month at Bates
Tuesday, June 17, 2025 10:07 am
The final month of the academic year begins with students wielding rakes and radar, and ends with fist pumps, Ferragamos, and farewells. Before the curtain rises once again, and before the next story unfolds, enjoy this month at Bates.
Advice from new graduates to new students: Here’s what you should explore at Bates
Friday, June 13, 2025 12:46 pm
We asked 14 Bates seniors, in their waning hours as resident experts on all things Bates, to tell us what the Class of 2029 should explore when they get to campus.
Q&A: To Bates Commencement Senior Speaker Aanika Patel, ‘interconnectedness’ is the answer
Thursday, May 22, 2025 2:11 pm
Aanika Patel ’25 will offer this year’s Senior Address during the 159th Commencement on Sunday, May 25, 2025.
Fishin’, singin’, campin’ — 13 joyful Bobcat sportraits from the spring season
Friday, May 16, 2025 9:27 am
Open-water fishing doesn’t begin until April 1 in Maine, but that didn’t…
Slideshow: This Month at Bates
Thursday, May 15, 2025 10:45 am
April at Bates arrives with light, with motion, and with meaning. Students…
Say What? Quotable quotes from Bates folks: May 8, 2025
Friday, May 9, 2025 3:19 pm
Our latest in an occasional roundup of quotable Bates quotes, this time about a bald eagle named Jeff, adulting off campus, and the joy of reading, writing, and learning at Bates.
Ancient ruins to white smoke: A Bates student’s up-close view of the papal election in Rome
Friday, May 9, 2025 2:32 pm
Feeling swept up in the election of a new pope doesn’t require you to be Catholic, writes Carly Philpott '27, who is in Rome with a Short Term course in classical and medieval studies. "All you have to do is absorb the moment."
A day in the life of a ‘helluva building,’ Ladd Library at Bates College
Friday, April 11, 2025 10:16 am
A full day inside Bates College's Ladd Library — March 12, 2025 — reveals the quiet, the buzz, and the people who bring it to life.
Slideshow: This Month at Bates
Tuesday, April 8, 2025 12:50 pm
From buzzer-beaters and Broadway guests to sunlit praise on the Historic Quad, this month offered moments of joy, reflection, and renewal. With every performance, project, and passing connection, students leaned into the turning season — ready for what’s next, but fully alive to what’s now.
Defeating the field and his own doubt, Max Cory ’26 wins Bates’ first NCAA swim title
Friday, March 28, 2025 4:07 pm
Self-effacing and candid, Cory shared how he has, in the past, "tended to swim worse when the pressure's on." Not this time. His time of 42.88 seconds set a National Division III record.