Thread: Mentors VS Students
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Unread 01-30-2008, 11:04 AM
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Re: Mentors VS Students
Ok, another meaningless rant...

Cognative learning styles. There are "otters", "squirrels", "mice", and "moles". Otters just jump in and swim! Experience by doing! Lots of students are otters. I'm not sure if its true of most engineers, but I'm more of a "squirrel" - a fact finder: go here, go there, and examine EVERYTHING before making a decision. "Otters", understandably, drive me crazy! But I understand and recognize their different action/cognative style and learn to adjust/co-exist & support them.

Anyway, if mentors don't recognize and have a strategy for handling the different action styles, channel them to appropriate activities for example, then lots of intra-group friction can occur.
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