Mentoring first-year students: what works and what wastes their time

First-years arrive with two things: enormous energy and no map. Most mentoring wastes the first by failing to provide the second. After mentoring 200+ students through TechVerse Enclave and speaking to a full hall of first-years at the VSICS BCA Induction, here is what I have found actually moves them. The three things they need A concrete first...