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Dear Mentors, 
As we cruise through the halfway point of the semester, take some time to reflect on the way your mentorship meetings have gone thus far. While I’m sure most of you have already gotten the chance to support your student mentees so much just in the past 6 weeks or so, how many have gotten just as much of an opportunity to learn from these bright undergraduates? 
It is often said that as much as you’ll learn as a student, you’ll learn twice as much as a teacher.. but why? Does it come down to placing yourself back in the same shoes you wore when you were in college? Is it due to the way we think about things when we try to teach what we already know to others? Whatever the reason, the very fact of the matter is that mentorship should always remain a symbiotic relationship. 
While we continue growing within our professional lives, it remains far too easy to overlook the foundation of our careers that we began developing as undergraduate students. To this point, let your mentee be your ground. Let their critical perceptions of the world shine a light on the very fundamentals. Then, embrace those fundamentals so that you may take a couple of steps back and begin to see a larger professional picture.

In setting the theme for this week's memo, pedagogical philosopher Paulo Freire states, “Looking at the past must only be a means of understanding more clearly what and who they are so that they can more wisely build the future.” 
Thank you all so much for all of your time and effort that makes Netwerx the program it is today!