[Steven Donow]

Hate bumping old threads, but an incredibly rude comment made to me today has had me up in arms/my mind racing, and I couldn't think of a major discussion topic enough to warrant a new thread.

I was told today, by a fellow college student (albeit one who is going for his postbaccalaurete/masters; his first degree in engineering) that, as opposed to mentoring a FIRST team in college (which I plan on) I should "do something real with my life, like SailBot"(or concrete canoe or Baja SAE or one of the many other engineering extracurriculars my school offers).

Now, obviously, I know how absurd/rude/ridiculous that comment was, and normally I shake off stuff like that and don't let it get to me, but it's really got me thinking: Outside of the idea of being a mentor (in the educational/inspirational sense) what does mentoring a FIRST team in college have that other college extracurriculars don't?