RCs and JAs live and work with fellow students in the college\u2019s 30 residences. Often seniors, Residence Coordinators focus on the living experiences of the sophomores, juniors and seniors in their residence. Junior Advisors work specifically with groups of 12 to 20 new students in what are called First-Year Centers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n<\/meta>“That’s why I do this work as a senior, because that experience really inspired me as a first-year.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
Trained by the Office of Residence Life and Health Education, JAs are mentors, guides, role models, and organizers who \u201chelp connect students, especially first-years, to the Bates experience in whatever way is authentic to them,\u201d says Assistant Director of Residence Life Eddie Szeman.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And everwhere one turned on Opening Day, there was advice on how to start off on the right foot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“It is scary at the beginning,” says Oliver Barrera ’22 of Waukegan Ill., an RC at historic Parker Hall, the college’s very first residence hall, opened in 1857.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“But if you put yourself out there, people will welcome you with open hands. And that’s the best part of the Bates community, as we see today: People are here to help you and people want to build a community with you. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
“And that’s why I do this work as a senior, because that experience really inspired me as a first-year.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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