{"id":126503,"date":"2019-08-30T09:06:41","date_gmt":"2019-08-30T13:06:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/?p=126503"},"modified":"2023-01-25T15:24:14","modified_gmt":"2023-01-25T20:24:14","slug":"video-the-importance-of-shower-shoes-and-other-advice-to-new-bates-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2019\/08\/30\/video-the-importance-of-shower-shoes-and-other-advice-to-new-bates-students\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: The importance of shower shoes and other advice to new Bates students"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you could go back in time, <em>BatesNews<\/em> asked eight seasoned Bobcats, what advice would you give your first-year self?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI would just tell myself to stop being so scared,\u201d said Izzy Eichenbaum \u201921, a psychology major from Lakewood Ranch, Fla. \u201cI was terrified before I came to Bates \u2014\u00a0 which is just insane looking back, because I totally went above and beyond what I ever expected and just made this place my own.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Guiding tours and conducting interviews, Eichenbaum, six other current students, and one recent graduate were working for Admission during the busy summer of 2019 when <em>BatesNews<\/em> invited them to the video studio to reflect on the first-year experience.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"color: #009779;\"><em>From eight young Bobcats, advice to the Class of 2023. (Theophil Syslo\/Bates College).<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QjYooVVIpFk\" width=\"560\" height=\"314\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u201cJust say yes,\u201d advised Maddie Sirois \u201921, an economics major from Maplewood, N.J., who&#8217;d actually gotten that advice the first time around from an older sister.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJust say yes to opportunities that you wouldn&#8217;t normally like to take &#8230; because sometimes that&#8217;s where you find something you&#8217;re really interested in.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And then there was this tip from biochemistry major Anna Gouveia &#8217;22 of Jonesborough, Tenn.: \u201cDon&#8217;t forget to bring shower shoes. I had to stand on, like, a folder in the shower for the first three days.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Here are the other five Batesies we spoke with: Zach Collester &#8217;19, Doylestown, Pa.; Sean Anderson &#8217;20, Houston; Kyle Larry &#8217;21 and Michael Hogue &#8217;20, both of Chicago; and Muskan Verma &#8217;21, Shimla, India.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you could go back in time, <em>BatesNews<\/em> asked eight seasoned Bobcats, what tips would you give your first-year self?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":126607,"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":[4,11012,11009],"tags":[10043,3554,10834],"class_list":["post-126503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-life","category-student-life","category-the-college","tag-admission","tag-first-years","tag-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126503","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\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126503"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126503\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":126745,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126503\/revisions\/126745"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/126607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}