{"id":28704,"date":"2010-07-02T13:16:44","date_gmt":"2010-07-02T17:16:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/home.bates.edu\/?p=28704"},"modified":"2016-02-08T16:11:32","modified_gmt":"2016-02-08T21:11:32","slug":"grads-on-bates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2010\/07\/02\/grads-on-bates\/","title":{"rendered":"Seniors of 2010 share thoughts on four years at Bates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Each May,\u00a0 graduating seniors attending a luncheon with Bates Trustees are invited by President Elaine Tuttle Hansen to offer brief comments on their time at Bates. Directly below are of some of their impromptu remarks:<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p class=\"summary\">Lindsay Thomson &#8217;10, West Hartford, Conn.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Lindsay Thomson &#039;10\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/13208284?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n Thomson decided Bates was the college she wanted to attend after spending five days checking it out.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p class=\"summary\">Kevin Thorson &#8217;10, Storrs, Conn.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Kevin Thorson &#039;10\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/13208282?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n Thorson found his passion at Bates, double-majoring in economics and Spanish.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p class=\"summary\">Vantiel Elizabeth Duncan &#8217;10, Topsham, Maine<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Vantiel Elizabeth Duncan &#039;10\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/13207987?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write\"><\/iframe><br \/>\nDuncan had many college choices, but Bates was the one place where she knew she could succeed in her &#8220;three A&#8217;s&#8221; \u2014 arts, academics and athletics.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p class=\"summary\">Emily Pressman &#8217;10, New Canaan, Conn.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Emily Pressman &#039;10\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/13207973?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write\"><\/iframe><br \/>\nBates was Pressman&#8217;s choice, and it became a second home.<\/p>\n<p class=\"summary\">Brianna Bakow &#8217;10, Lexington, Mass.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Brianna Bakow &#039;10\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/13207992?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n Bakow found that the one-on-one interaction with professors and others produced a sense of community she had not experienced before.<\/p>\n<p class=\"summary\">Emily Grady &#8217;10, Littleton, Mass.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Emily Grady &#039;10\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/13207980?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n Grady discovered resources everywhere as academic and experiential learning came together for her thesis.<\/p>\n<p class=\"summary\">George MacDonald &#8217;10, Ossining, N.Y.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"George MacDonald &#039;10\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/13208554?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n MacDonald prepared to go into the world after college as an artist \u2013 and has fulfilled his goal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"summary\">Emaan Karamatullah &#8217;10, Karachi, Pakistan<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Emaan Karamatullah &#039;10\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/13208272?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n Bates changed Karamatullah in many ways, and gave her the chance to meet so many people with different backgrounds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Graduating seniors attending a luncheon with Bates Trustees offer impromptu comments on their time at Bates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":0,"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":[4,8,11012,11009],"tags":[10043,10831,4087,7842],"class_list":["post-28704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academic-life","category-bates-values","category-student-life","category-the-college","tag-admission","tag-commencement","tag-harward-center-for-community-partnerships","tag-senior-thesis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28704","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=28704"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28704\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76817,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28704\/revisions\/76817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}