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Re: [ietf-mentors] Query for Vancouver

Carsten Bormann <cabo@tzi.org> Fri, 30 August 2013 10:38 UTC

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The term mentor may be raising the wrong expectations.
Most mentees don't need a lot of help.
(For those that do, there is only so much you can do.)

I have done this about half a dozen times now.
I didn't keep a lab journal, but I think the occasional contact made, the occasional hint not to miss certain hard-to-find work, and the occasional discouragement of going down the wrong path was worth the effort in most cases.

(Of course, if the organizers do expect a deep relationship between mentors and mentees, I have been doing this wrong all the time.)

Grüße, Carsten

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