HEY! You know how we do those surveys that say "what do YOU want to see FoGD do? " and then you ALL say "more involvement!"? Well, I've been working on this for a while, so I present to you: FRIENDS OF GRAPHIC DESIGN STUDENT MENTORING!
What does that entail? Basically, we'll assign a couple underclassmen to someone who's been through the portfolio review and has learned 'the hard way' all about design, school, and life. You're free to take it from there - want a weekly coffee date with your mentor/ee? An email check in every day? Something else?
Why are we doing this? There are so many awesome people in our program, but unless you've got classes together, you'll never meet them! We're trying to help you branch out and meet great new people by facilitating connections between upper- and lower-classmen.
If you're interested, let us know (aka send us an email at [email protected]) with some strengths and skills you have and would like to share, as well as the kind of mentor relationship you want. Are you more of an email person? Prefer to meet over coffee? We'll use this information to help make matches between upper and lower division students. It's like speed dating but not creepy!
We're planning a kick off lunch (pizza included!) on February 5th, when we'll introduce everyone and get started!
this is really great!!!
Posted by: Megan MacLaggan | January 16, 2010 at 04:28 AM