"Of course, not all advice is good advice, and not all mentors have only your best interests at heart.
He was clear that not all mentors and role models have to "match".
Not all reverse mentors are millennials.
But not all my mentors have been professionals.
In addition, we believe not all EP mentors are currently competent to train the new generation of EPs because their training was before 2014.
We do have overarching requirements in our program such as teach in a PBL format, complete an experiment, keep all students engaged, and do a daily assessment followed up with a long-term assessment, but we do not force all mentors to accomplish this in the same way.
Secondly, students might form satisfying mentoring relationships outside or in the absence of formal mentoring programs or might simply not desire mentoring.
At this point, your head is probably filling with all the excuses we make to justify not mentoring someone.
It was your boss's fault for not mentoring you, which led to you not getting that promotion.
We can't dictate mentoring and for some of us mentoring is not easy, given all the life commitments we have.
