How to Find Mentors – Even if You’re a Freshman (Ep. 72)

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Thomas Frank and Martin Boehme

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4.8 • 998 Ratings

🗓️ 19 August 2015

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

Finding mentors who can give you advice and encouragement is essential for achieving your career goals. Here's how two students helped hundreds of students at their school find mentors of their own. Full show notes Things mentioned in this episode: MentorCon - The Tufts University conference Michael and John put together Greenhorn Connect - The Boston entrepreneurship organization that inspired John and Michael to put on their own conference National Engineers Week The Entrepreneurs Club at Northeastern University Trello - Keep track of everything, from the big picture to the minute details The Art Of The Email Introduction: 20 Rules For Emailing Busy People by Chris Fralic National Engineering Mentors Organization (NEMO) Create a Mentorship Program at Your University - John and Michael's Udemy course How to Host an On-Campus Conference - John and Michael's guest post on My College Advice Want more cool stuff? You can find all sorts of great tools at my Resources page. You can also get a free copy of my book, 10 Steps to Earning Awesome Grades (While Studying Less), by staying up to date with the College Info Geek newsletter. If you enjoyed this episode, subscribe to the podcast on iTunes! It's easy, you'll get new episodes automatically, and it also helps the show gain exposure :) You can also leave a review! See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:34.0	Ladies, gentlemen and time travelers stuck in the year 2015 who
0:42.0	think listening to a podcast will give them the knowledge needed to repair their time machines.
0:47.0	A mistake I might add.
0:48.0	Welcome to the College Info Geek Podcast. My name is Thomas Frank and this is a show that helps you become a more effective student.
0:54.0	Whether that's learning how to study more efficiently, get the jobs and internships you want, or master your money,
0:59.4	this show helps you make college an amazing experience and hopefully keeps that amazing
1:03.4	experience rolling into life after school. Now on this episode I've actually
1:07.4	got two brothers on the show, John and Michael Kenny, who founded an organization
1:12.1	at their school, Tuftsfts University called Tufts Engineering
1:15.1	Mentors.
1:16.2	And what that did was actually paired freshman engineering students up with upper class mentors
1:21.5	and they leveraged that experience to create an amazing conference on campus and they actually got one of the top executives of Google, specifically their Android development department, to come speak at this conference.
1:34.0	So John and Michael actually pitched me on a podcast episode about how to create a conference at your
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