How to get involved
Undergraduate students:
1. Look over the mentor profiles under the “Mentor Profile” tab and identify 1-3 mentors that you are interested in talking to.
2. Send the mentor(s) an email introducing yourself (below is a template that you can use). Make sure you offer some dates and times when you are available to meet, and be flexible! Grad students often have only a few small windows of free time to meet (because our lives are now ruled by science and her fickle whims).
3. Meet your mentor(s)! Pro-tip: Prepare a list of questions for your mentor(s) and do some research on them. There are few things that a grad student likes to talk about more than their research (seriously…ask a grad student informed questions about their research and you will be there a while!).
4. Work with your mentor(s) to decide how often you want to meet. Do not feel bad if one mentor does not work out and you want to meet with a different one (don’t worry about hurting our feelings; we have all been crying over our research long enough that we don’t have any tears left to cry).
Questions?
Email WGSA: [email protected]
Sample Email
Dear *mentor name*,
Greetings! I found your WEC Mentor profile on the WGSA website and I am interested in meeting with you. I am a *school year* in *major*. I have time to meet *add chunks of time you are free throughout the week*. I look forward to hearing from you!
Sincerely
*Your name*
Mentors (graduate students): If you are interested in mentoring, please fill out this form. It will ask you to provide some basic information so that we can add you to our Mentor Profile page. In addition, please send an email to WGSA ([email protected]) and include a picture of yourself to be posted along with your information.
1. Look over the mentor profiles under the “Mentor Profile” tab and identify 1-3 mentors that you are interested in talking to.
2. Send the mentor(s) an email introducing yourself (below is a template that you can use). Make sure you offer some dates and times when you are available to meet, and be flexible! Grad students often have only a few small windows of free time to meet (because our lives are now ruled by science and her fickle whims).
3. Meet your mentor(s)! Pro-tip: Prepare a list of questions for your mentor(s) and do some research on them. There are few things that a grad student likes to talk about more than their research (seriously…ask a grad student informed questions about their research and you will be there a while!).
4. Work with your mentor(s) to decide how often you want to meet. Do not feel bad if one mentor does not work out and you want to meet with a different one (don’t worry about hurting our feelings; we have all been crying over our research long enough that we don’t have any tears left to cry).
Questions?
Email WGSA: [email protected]
Sample Email
Dear *mentor name*,
Greetings! I found your WEC Mentor profile on the WGSA website and I am interested in meeting with you. I am a *school year* in *major*. I have time to meet *add chunks of time you are free throughout the week*. I look forward to hearing from you!
Sincerely
*Your name*
Mentors (graduate students): If you are interested in mentoring, please fill out this form. It will ask you to provide some basic information so that we can add you to our Mentor Profile page. In addition, please send an email to WGSA ([email protected]) and include a picture of yourself to be posted along with your information.
