I made some time to meet up with my mentee for lunch today. It's a requirement for us to make contact at least once a week as a part of the Mentoring Program ran by the Office of Minority Affairs. At the Mentoring Kick-Off celebration held last month where all the Mentors and Mentees are first introduced to each other, I came not knowing who to expect to be my mentee for this school year. Last year, I had a freshman named Tara from Portsmouth, Ohio and I thought we had a pretty good mentoring relationship. So this year I was assigned to Tara again, which helped since I didn't have to worry about meeting anybody new and getting their contact information and background story together. I already knew all Tara's business and her schedule and we had still stayed in contact over the summer so being placed together again would only continue our friendship. It's funny how I am her mentor when we're just 2 years apart, but that's a lot of time in College years. She is still in that deciding what to major in stage, and I try to help guide her as best as I can. She's thinking about going into Environmental Science and Public Policy and Management so I recommended her to take this Environmental Resources class I took last summer. Tara stays on North campus north campus now, opposed to her living in a dorm right next door to mine on South campus like last year. So even though we don't stay as close, we have a whole year to get together.

My mentee, Tara and I at the Mentoring Program Kick-Off event at the Holiday Inn- We had our blue color scheme going on!