Other mentees may thrive with an active and rapid exchange.
Regardless of meeting frequency, mentees had regular e-mail and phone connectivity with other mentees and facilitators between meeting times.
Other Thiel mentees have been tapped, including Joe Lonsdale and Abraham.
Today, I find that at least 25% of the time I am the mentee, with undergrads in their early 20s acting as my mentors.
If you are serving both as mentor and principal investigator, it is a good idea to find the right project to build your mentee's confidence with some early success while preparing her with skills for the longer-term research studies that may be both riskier and more difficult.
In other words one mentor per mentee.
As reported in Table 1, we were surprised to find that the majority of the early career physician-scientist mentees in our survey reported that they did not have an intention to pursue a research career, and that there was no difference between those with and without a mentor.
Lastly, early identification and alignment of both mentor and mentee expectations was key to program success, specifically in maintaining longitudinal relationships that shift in purpose over time and can adjust easily to student development.
"The presence of a plant mentor earlier in one's life (someone who helped the mentee observe, plant, grow, and tend living plants) is a key predictor of that person's awareness, appreciation, and understanding of plants throughout the lifespan".
For plant science, meaningful and early exposure may be critical: "The presence of a plant mentor earlier in one's life (someone who helped the mentee observe, plant, grow, and tend living plants) is a key predictor of that person's awareness, appreciation, and understanding of plants throughout the lifespan".
The use of e-mail as the primary communications tool between mentor and "mentee," as opposed to the traditional face-to-face relationship, gives our studens an early, non-threatening exposure to technology.
