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Have you ever had a mentor?

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Posted - December 2, 2020
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  • 4624
    I wish!

    I applied for one when I first started at this uni (Southern Cross University), but the complications I had with my computer stymied the process. By the time I had everything fixed, it was too late to get partnered with a mentor.

    I found my way around it by tapping every skeric of advice on SCU's online Blackboard, and consulting with academic staff and the librarians.

    I would still love to have a mentor in the form of a Nobel or Pulitzer prize-winning novelist - but I know that's an impossible pipe dream.
      December 2, 2020 7:17 PM MST
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  • 44553
    I shall be your science mentor and we can dream of pipes. Nice answer.
      December 2, 2020 7:22 PM MST
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  • 4624
    Thank you!
    Where do we start?
    Perhaps with first principles.
    How do you define science?
    What is scientific method?
      December 3, 2020 2:30 PM MST
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  • 44553
      December 3, 2020 3:43 PM MST
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  • 53404

     

      How about becoming a mentor to/for someone yourself?
    ~

      December 3, 2020 7:59 PM MST
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  • 1953
    No never, mentors always felt creepy to me..  kind of like Catholic priest or boy scout leaders. 
      December 3, 2020 4:18 PM MST
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  • 53404
      December 3, 2020 7:59 PM MST
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  • 53404

      Ok, day one, let me set the ground rules. First of all, you are to call me Uncle Randy, but that’s only when we’re alone, which will be most of the time. Next, you must never tell anyone a word about our sessions. More rules later, for right now, I need to know how well you can make a sandwich. I’ve set up a mock kitchen, no, no, no, not that door, that’s the mock bedroom. We will work our way up to that later. The mock kitchen is the door across the hall . . 

      December 3, 2020 8:08 PM MST
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  • 23427

    Yes.
    Though not "officially" (none of them would consider themselves as a mentor to me) mentors, three people come to immediate mind - - in my life, all three started as work colleagues and they became dear friends in the process. My life and professions are bettered by their input in my life.
      December 3, 2020 7:46 PM MST
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  • 2706
    I'm not sure if this would qualify as being a mentor but the pastor of the church I attended was always there when I needed spiritual help.
      December 3, 2020 8:17 PM MST
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  • 16646
    Yes, and I have also BEEN a mentor. Now I'm just mental.
      December 4, 2020 2:48 AM MST
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