{"id":123862,"date":"2019-04-25T12:26:21","date_gmt":"2019-04-25T16:26:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/?p=123862"},"modified":"2021-08-13T12:00:31","modified_gmt":"2021-08-13T16:00:31","slug":"video-chirayu-baral-19-treasures-the-humility-of-the-bates-faculty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2019\/04\/25\/video-chirayu-baral-19-treasures-the-humility-of-the-bates-faculty\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: Chirayu Baral &#8217;19 treasures &#8216;humility&#8217; of the Bates faculty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chirayu Baral &#8217;19 of Thane, India, shares his amazement at how easy it is to develop close relationships with Bates faculty.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They&#8217;re willing to listen to you,&#8221; says Baral, an economics and politics major, &#8220;and they&#8217;re willing to accept that they could be wrong and a freshman could be right.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They hold Ph.D.s from prized institutions around the world, but they interact with you with a sense of humility.&#8221;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"color: #009779;\"><em>Video by Phyllis Graber Jensen<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Chirayu Baral | Voices from the Class of 2019\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BwftL35f4rc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Bates &#8220;does become a home,&#8221; says Baral, who has come to treasure his connections to his professors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":91,"featured_media":123875,"comment_status":"open","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":[4,130,14,11012,11009],"tags":[10834,12250,11875],"class_list":["post-123862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-life","category-collaboration","category-faculty-staff","category-student-life","category-the-college","tag-video","tag-voices","tag-voices-of-2019"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/91"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123862"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123862\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":124115,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123862\/revisions\/124115"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/123875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}