Making the Most of Little Time

[Alan Anderson]

If this is your first year at college, you can probably best serve your team by stepping back and focusing on school. You'll be much more effective as a mentor a year later, when you've had some time to find your new groove as a college student. It also helps a lot to have a clean separation between student and mentor roles.

If you must contribute something, try giving the one thing you definitely have more of than they do: FRC experience. Make checklists, and try to explain in writing why each item is important.