It’s time to announce the ones who were chosen for my mentorship program!
There were 36 applicants, which was about 7 times as many as last time - I didn’t expect that. And if there’s great demand, I have to be a bit picky to use my time as efficiently as possible.
To choose my mentees, I first checked if they fit the general requirements (some applied and said they’d post about something else than science …), then I read the “Tell me something about yourself!” part. I included this prompt in my application form mainly because I wanted to see people make an effort. I’m going to spend a whole week on you, I need to know if you’re willing to put in some work yourself.
It was important to me, that the applicant will also write about a topic that I either now about or am at least vaguely interested in. Working with someone on a post and knowing nothing about the topic myself significantly decreases the quality of my help. So if you weren’t picked, don’t be sad, we were probably just incompatible.
9 people were finally chosen, and this is the order in which my “chosen ones” will be mentored:
This does not correspond to specific dates!
What now?
I will contact you about a week before I have time for you to confirm if you too have time. If you need to turn down a specific time frame, I’ll just switch your place with the next in line. You will not lose your mentorship just because you’re busy when I am not!
Please keep in mind that I will be working on my bachelor thesis till July, which means I won’t be able to mentor one person each week, there will be breaks. Messaging me and asking when it’s your turn will not make it come faster.
If you haven’t shared your discord/steemit.chat name with me yet, please do so in a comment so I can contact you when it’s time. If you have questions, feel free to shoot me a message but please understand that I won’t be available for daily smalltalk.
I’m looking forward to working with all of you!
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