Harvest Dinner!

“Check out the menu:
Domestic & Imported Cheeses with Seasonal Fruit
Mixed Greens Salad w/choice of dressing one to be cranberry vinaigrette
Bread & Butter Pickles
Deviled Eggs
Spiced Pumpkin Soup
Native Seafood Chowder
Roast Breast of Turkey (Turkey Gravy)
Slow Roasted Pot Roast w/ Onions, Native Maine Potatoes and Carrots (Pot Roast Gravy)
Lobster Stuffed Haddock
Butternut Squash Casserole
Peas & Onions
Mashed Potatoes (vegan)
Cape Cod [...]

Extracurricular Theater + School = ?

“The theater department offers many experience-based courses in addition of their lecture courses, including Beginning Acting, Advanced Acting, Acting for the Camera, Directing, and Directing for the Camera among others. Around the end of fall semester, the Directing course culminates in an evaluation of a play they have directed. The first performance, just before Thanksgiving [...]

Wait, Bragging Can Help You Get Ahead?

“I knew I was struggling in my inability to brag and that it was affecting my job search. I had to get over my hesitancy to speak positively about myself. To toot my own horn, if you will. So, I turned to the books. I checked out two from my local library: You Are the [...]

Giving Thanks for the Harvest Dinner

“You might as well rename the Harvest Dinner  “the pre-Thanksgiving meal before Thanksgiving”.  This is one event that occurs before the break each year, as the Bates Dining Staff work hard to ensure the success of all of its efforts. Not only is a bounty of Thanksgiving-appropriate foods served (such as chowder, lobster-stuffed haddock, cranberry [...]

Meteor Shower and the Love the Outdoors

“In preparation for the meteor shower, the Bates Outing Club (BOC) sent out an email offering rides to Bates students who wanted to watch the stars from a nearby farm (graciously offered up by a local farmer). 80 students responded to the email, an overwhelming number that the Outing Club was not prepared to accommodate.” [...]

Beautiful Maine

“Hey all. Longer update to follow after the Harvest Dinner this Wednesday. For now, check out these pictures I snapped with my cell phone of campus during sunset.” Read more.

International Coffee House

“Performances included karaoke, Japanese taiko drumming, hilarious songs written by innovative student songwriters, room-shaking Bollywood dances choreographed by students, bold a-cappella singers, and a series of dances showcasing the Latin, Balkan, French hip-hop, and Japanese cultures. To top it off, the MC’s were just as energetic to kindle the night.” Read more.

The First In-Person Interview: Embody Your Cover Letter

“To be a human cover letter, you have to come off as likeable, professional, efficient, and you have to be intelligible to the person interviewing you. Like your cover letter, you must look good. No typos and no putting the wrong name or organization in your cover letter! You must seem passionate about the position.” [...]

Gaga for Ga-Ga

“No, this has nothing to do with pop icon Lady Gaga- but the popular dodgeball game played in Israel…This event is being sponsored by Bates Hillel, a club at Bates that serves to inform Bates about the Jewish culture.” Read more.

Hello Stage

“This past weekend, I had my first performance at Bates this year. I’m on the board of directors for the student theather organization, The Robinson Players, and every fall we put on an “Evening of One Acts”. My show, Sociability, was one of them. It was a lot of fun, working with the cast and a great director, [...]