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Re: When do mentors go too far?

AHHH!!! It's another touchy issue but I feel compelled to reply to it.

When you have a group of students and a group of mentors trying to work together to create that perfect blend of work, there is a small tweaking to the math behind it. In this case 1 team's work divided into 2 groups of people cannot and will never ever equal to 1/2. Why? First of all, the human aspect of the entire thing comes into play. Who wouldn't want to have fun with all sorts of cool new gadgets, widgets, cogs and what not? It effects all ages. Second, sometimes one side is right, the other is wrong and vice versa. Finally, in order for that perfect blend to happen theoretically, someone would have to plan it out, and whoever has control over that plan, their side has the small majority. (55/45 or 50.1 to 49.9, you get the picture).

Short: its impossible to get it perfect, but if you work hard, you'll get extremely close, and that's fine in my opinion.
*edit* On the other hand, if you don't learn anything, not even a nibble, there's a problem.
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