Mentors: C or D?

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Have you ever had a mentor? Is it advisable to have one? I'm increasingly thinking that, no, it's not, that a mentor will inevitably let you down and it's not worth bothering in the first place. Even so, only temporarily or provisionally, is it worth having one? Or being one? What is a mentor, anyway?

― Prude (Prude), Tuesday, 14 October 2003 03:14 (twenty-one years ago)

I ask because I'm worrying more and more that the professor I came to work with at my present school isn't terribly well regarded amongst students or faculty. I've heard some stories about the unreasonable amount of work he's dumped on TA's and RA's. More than this, though, I wonder if I'm only seeing what I want to see in him, not what's really there.

― Prude (Prude), Tuesday, 14 October 2003 03:18 (twenty-one years ago)

Mentors are something I haven't really experienced since I was in school. And my experience of them was kind of dud. Any mentor which you are assigned, as part of some official program tends to be kind of dud. It's done as a duty, not out of genuine desire to teach or mentor, and therefore ends up kind of exploitative.

I have had mentor-figures, but, as they say, you don't find your guru, your guru finds you. It tends to be a far less formal arrangement.

A mentor is a guide, rather than a teacher or professor.

― kate (kate), Tuesday, 14 October 2003 07:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Mentors: the Freshmaker.

― NA (Nick A.), Tuesday, 14 October 2003 11:49 (twenty-one years ago)

I had a mentor assigned when I started this job. that worked for ahiwle, but now I have much more helpful relationships with other people, that just grew naturally. I think this is partially because my oficial mentor was not well liked = it is good to have a mentor who gets on with people that you want to get on with (if that makes sense).

― isadora (isadora), Tuesday, 14 October 2003 20:11 (twenty-one years ago)

I would like a mentor.
Seriously. I've been trying to do all this (what I do) by the seat of my pants for a long time and I would really like somebody to sit me down and say "hey now, there's no need to make yourself crazy, there's a simple, straightforward way of doing this."

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 14 October 2003 20:20 (twenty-one years ago)

I need a mentor to check my typing

― isadora (isadora), Tuesday, 14 October 2003 22:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Not Work Safe

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Tuesday, 14 October 2003 23:07 (twenty-one years ago)

mentorist

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 15 October 2003 14:45 (twenty-one years ago)

three years pass...

According to their Wikipedia article, they are the inventors of "rape rock."

― Richard Wood Johnson, Wednesday, 1 August 2007 21:38 (eighteen years ago)

"I'm Going Through Your Purse," "Free Fix for a Fuck," "Peepin' Tom." Classic.

― Gorge, Wednesday, 1 August 2007 22:01 (eighteen years ago)

sixteen years pass...

Yes i would like a mentor, i even have a couple of folks in mind, it’s just harder to cultivate these relationships when working remotely ime

― brimstead, Tuesday, 16 April 2024 23:48 (one year ago)

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