What's our theme topic for November. I'm trying to get ahead on my posts because I'm going to be out for my wedding soon.
Unless we want to go back and do "a day in the life"--which was tied for 2nd but on the last round, we felt like that had been pretty well covered--then the next in line is a tie for 3rd between mentoring styles and the strangest thing you've seen in the lab.
Both are good. FOr mentoring styles, should we talk about how we mentor students or how our mentors mentored us?
My choice would be to go with how we were mentored--the other way around might come off as a little didactic, don't you think? But stories of great mentors can be, you know, heartwarming and inspirational. They could also be stories of bad mentors, sort of a "how not to mentor," perhaps.
Mine would be the latter, "How not to mentor."
Yeah...I'm not comfortable writing a bitchfest post about bad mentoring I've experienced. I think I'll do a what I've learned/how to
I'm comfortable with either.
The "How I've been mentored" will be an interesting story about how I almost got out of science and how I was brought back. I'll probably do that (if we're leaving it up to the author's)
I'd imagine that for those of you who are "out," a How Not to Mentor post wouldn't really be in your best interests...
I have a how to and a how to not based upon labs that I bounced around.
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