[dhitchco]

What to do when mentors go "too far".

1) Be sure to actively TALK and roll-up-your-sleeves if you want to take a leadership role and that action, all by itself, will give the signal to the mentor(s) that you want them/us to back-off.

2) When you go to work in the "real world", you will find the full spectrum of very passive managers to very active "micro-managers". You will have to deal with both styles.

3) In any mentoring/parental activity there is a fine line between too much hand-on nurturing and too much hands-off. Just be sure to communicate your own needs and desires clearly. I suspect most mentors, since their involvement is after-work and voluntary would be very happy to see the students do more.

In my rookie team's case, we did have many nights during the build season where not everyone was involved in doing something. I suspect we could have done more of the spirit & fundraising activities in parallel each evening to the actual build.