{"id":123012,"date":"2019-03-20T11:09:23","date_gmt":"2019-03-20T15:09:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/?p=123012"},"modified":"2021-08-13T12:00:15","modified_gmt":"2021-08-13T16:00:15","slug":"voices-from-the-class-of-2019-walter-washington-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2019\/03\/20\/voices-from-the-class-of-2019-walter-washington-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: For Walter Washington \u201919, &#8220;it started with taking an opportunity&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I came here with so many different interests,&#8221; says Walter Washington &#8217;19. &#8220;I wanted to do music, I wanted to get into politics, I wanted to study the law more.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I wanted to do all these different things, and also to become a person who can make things happen and make change happen. And I found all of those interests here at ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½.&#8221;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"color: #009779;\"><em>Video by Theophil Syslo.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Walter Washington | Voices from the Class of 2019\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/m6tLgX53Yzs?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<p>Today, counting down to graduation, Washington of Fleetwood, N.Y., is one of the best-known faces on the ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ campus.<\/p>\n<p>A politics major, he has served as president of student government for two years. A letter-winning defensive lineman for the football team all four years, he received the Stephen B. Ritter Award, given to football players with the highest GPAs. He has also sung with the Deansmen, the oldest of ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½\u2019 beloved <em>a cappella<\/em> ensembles, throughout his ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ career.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was able to carry things out that I never imagined myself doing. And it started with just taking an opportunity,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n<p>Washington&#8217;s advice to new ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ies? &#8220;Don&#8217;t be scared to branch out\u00a0\u2014 don&#8217;t be afraid, because you never know what great things can happen from something so small.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An award-winning senior, Washington offers advice to ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ies just starting out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1016,"featured_media":123120,"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,"bates_author_byline_override":"ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ News","_estimated-read-time":"","_post-template":"\/usr\/local\/webserver\/webpve\/htdocs\/new-www.bates.edu\/wp-content\/themes\/b\/news\/single-big-header-image.php","_header-color":"#000000","_photo-credit":"Phyllis Graber Jensen","_header-effect":"parallax","override_related_with_tag":"","_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"In his ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ College career, says Walter Washington '19, great things resulted from \u201cjust taking an opportunity.\u201d","_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":[4,130,11012],"tags":[2579,12250,11875,11397],"class_list":["post-123012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-life","category-collaboration","category-student-life","tag-convocation","tag-voices","tag-voices-of-2019","tag-walter-washington"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123012","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\/1016"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123012"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123012\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":123044,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123012\/revisions\/123044"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/123120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}