Making the Most of Little Time

[Andrew Schreiber]

Originally Posted by 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.

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I have had a bunch of alumni come back as "mentors". They are basically super seniors because they never realized they aren't students any more.


You've got years to be a mentor but unless you're going to spend a long time in school, you're limited in those experiences. FIRST will still be here when you get out.