[KathieK]

A better way for me to state my question (and this is a general question that I think a lot of mentors would ask) would be, "How can I, as a mentor, inspire you, as a student, to take on the not-so-glamorous tasks?" It's so easy for us to take over and "do it myself" - it's very hard to ask for volunteers, have no one step up, and then let something go undone because no one volunteered to do it. (I know, I know, just because we did something in the past doesn't justify doing it this year or next year...)

But as a mentor this is a learning process for me, too, and I'd love some ideas for getting more involvement from the students on the things that no one wants to do....