1. What has been your best relationship with a mentor and/or teacher? How did that relationship contribute to your success? How did you find this person?

2. In the beginning of this scenario, our characters are stereotypes—gruff professor and overly anxious student. What contributes to these stereotypical behaviors? How do these influences affect your ability to establish a mentoring relationship?

3. Have you ever been a mentor? If you were a professor mentoring a first-year student, what advice might you give the student?

4. What if there is a problem between the student and the professor in this scenario—for example, what if Hayden makes some bad grades? Will they be able to work through it more easily because of their relationship, or will that make it harder?