Mentoriing

I'm a senior mentor at LHS. My job as a senior mentor, is to guide, not influence, my selected freshman in a certain direction. Being a mentor has given me some personal growth, as well as an example of what I was like when I was their age. Not to say I'm a Perfect Patty now, but when I was a freshman I didn't care about much of anything. In fact, freshman year was the worst for me, from a scholastic point of view. Because I was an academic failure during my freshman year, I try to help my freshman not imitate my actions. By giving them as much information about their future as possible, I think I may have been getting through to them. The only problem about being a senior mentor are the freshman who really don't care. They push your buttons and give off that "This is whack, I don't have to listen to you" attitude. These type of freshman, though there are few, bring two types of attitudes to my mind: anger and determination. Every time I begin to get angry at those type of freshman I remember that those type of freshman are the reason LHS started using the Freshman Seminar Program.