What Past Students Have Said ...
What Past Students Have Said ...
The following comments from past participants of UNE Mentor show that they have enjoyed the opportunities the program offered them. These opportunities include:
- Receipt of feedback and constructive criticism from mentors and peers
- Testing out ideas in a supportive environment
- Extending and refining their work based on feedback
- Meeting other students, and involvement in an online creative community
- A taste of university life.
Here is a sample of what past students have said
about the programme:
"Peer pressure is dealt with often as a bad thing but peer support is often overlooked and it was really great to meet everyone else."
"The access to the website is great. If students need some help, it can usually be accessed at any time, anywhere. It is a great programme."
"Thank you for all your constructive advice! I appreciate all the assistance and direction which you have given me. It was you who answered my first posting and through this stimulated/inspired and strongly influenced/determined many of the initial ideas and aspects of my narrative. . . . thank you for your dedication and attention to this mentor scheme-you have helped me greatly!"
"Oh dear, I think I'm going to miss this. I'd also like to thank you all for this, it's been great. Thanks also for the day at Armidale, it was wonderful for me, it helped me a lot."
"I think I'll miss reading stuff from people who are as reassuringly weird as I am.""Put simply: thank you. I don't know what I would have done without the help from you and your fellow mentors."
"I'd like to dedicate this message to all you mentors out there for your excellent help and encouragement over the last . . . months. You've been an inspiration and great help during this programme. . . I must say that it's been really good to chat with and meet some of you brilliant kids. It's been heaps fun. Memories:
1) Meeting everyone at the E-mentor workshop
2) Getting to hear and read some of your great works
3) The Mentors' never ending help
4) The Mentors' never ending help
5) The Mentors' never ending help . . .
Ppps. Three cheers for the mentors."
"This has been such a great thing. . . . it's been so wonderful to talk to all you guys and to meet some of you at UNE. Thanks especially to Heather and Matthew, who were my mentors at UNE and have given me such useful, constructive and generally wonderful advice. It's been such a great motivator to have this here, and I've loved being able to get people's many and varied responses on my work and to read all of yours - it's been great! Thanks so much to the mentors, you've all been most wonderful and yeah, woohoo! Thanks."
"Thank you for co-ordinating such an interesting and helpful program!!! I have really benefited from this experience and would like to thank the mentors for their help!!"