tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3671815.post109667083757077998..comments2024-02-07T03:12:59.031-05:00Comments on Blogenspiel: Mentoring, pt 1Another Damned Medievalisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05231085915472400163noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3671815.post-1097253806124160842004-10-08T12:43:00.000-04:002004-10-08T12:43:00.000-04:00That's just sad. It's not like mentoring is a mod...That's just sad. It's not like mentoring is a modern concept, after all. I don't know how it is in the UK, because the PhD program is so different there, but I'm glad that it seems to be more the case, here. Upon consideration, I don't know how true that is. Since most of the people I deal with pretty closely are Ancient/Medieval people, it might be that my view is narrow. What about other historians? Economists? Psychologists (I get the feeling there's a lot of mentoring there, unless you're a Lacanian)? People outside the Social Sciences?Another Damned Medievalisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05231085915472400163noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3671815.post-1097227710059357902004-10-08T05:28:00.000-04:002004-10-08T05:28:00.000-04:00I never had a mentor. I think most people don't. I...I never had a mentor. I think most people don't. I can see how different things might have been if I had had one.<br />Claire 17th-century/newsAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3671815.post-1096928111808839842004-10-04T18:15:00.000-04:002004-10-04T18:15:00.000-04:00It's great to read stories of good mentoring. I ha...It's great to read stories of good mentoring. I had to laugh about the grad students as mentors b/c that was a lot of my grad school experience - relying on more advanced students' wisdom and trying to pass it along myself if I could.<br /><br />And despite my own (frequent!) complaints about mentoring, I have had some wonderful experiences. Thanks for reminding me.New Kid on the Hallwayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04982506415757771218noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3671815.post-1096783399542373872004-10-03T02:03:00.000-04:002004-10-03T02:03:00.000-04:00I think you're right ... it is important to rememb...I think you're right ... it is important to remember to, in turn, be a mentor. Thanks for sharing this.<br /><br />And I think I'm going to email my undergrad mentor. Although I'm in an entirely different field now, she really helped me believe in myself and my abilities...~profgrrrrl~https://www.blogger.com/profile/15280731948424317624noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3671815.post-1096671767859250452004-10-01T19:02:00.000-04:002004-10-01T19:02:00.000-04:00I met my mentor in the second semester of my fresh...I met my mentor in the second semester of my fresher year. It was a course on popular culture in early modern Europe; it was the first time I'd done early modern history properly, and I didn't realise you could do so much in that period that wasn't either about kings and queens or huge-scale economic processes (The Cheese and the Worms was on the reading list. That book is to blame for much of what I've been doing ever since). We hit it off straightaway. He kept giving me these really good marks and saying wonderfully encouraging things! As a third year, he invited me to departmental seminars that were normally for staff and postgrads. Later he became my PhD supervisor. He's written references for me since I was first applying for post-grad study (the ones I've seen make me blush). He passes on juicy gossip. Now he's my post-doc mentor. He means a hell of a lot to me, and I've been very lucky to know him.<br /><br />There are other people too from along the way, I hasten to add. But Michael is special. I only hope that I can be half as good with my future students. <br /><br />All of which is just to say, I couldn't agree more about the importance of good mentors...<br /><br /><A HREF="http://www.blogger.com/r?http%3A%2F%2Fwww.earlymodernweb.org.uk%2Femn">Sharon</A>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com