<p>As the title may suggest, I have lost my research mentor. She has said she is busier because she's teaching an additional class this year. </p>
<p>I think I have what it takes to finish the project; however, I have no idea what to do for the mentor part in top competitions such as Intel STS. </p>
<p>So I have 2 questions:
1) What should I do about my mentor situation?
2) Since I don't have a mentor anyways, should I work on my half finished project or should I work on another project I'm doing for which I never had a mentor?</p>
<p>1) Try to reach out to more people and get a new one? It depends on what you want to do and if you can do it alone.
2) Whichever one you can think is the best.</p>
<p>Thanks.
It’s been so hard to get a mentor so I’m really bummed out right now.</p>
<p>Mass email w/ a good cover letter? That’s worked for me before. Sorry, that sucks :(</p>
<p>BTW, you’re bioinfo, right? When I did the bioinfo bit of my project, I just emailed scientists across the country asking for help (used some directory) and got some good advice. I don’t think for bioinfo you <em>need</em> a physical mentor, right?</p>
<p>Thanks, I’ll try that.
In the past, I have done that, and it was okay, but Intel is annoying and wants mentors to fill out long forms.
A lot of them don’t really want to fill out recommendation forms/mentor forms though. Hmmm, maybe I should just come up with answers for them, lol.</p>