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mentor
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The Last Lecture
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- I thought hard about how I defined myself: as a teacher, a computer scientist, a husband, a father, a son, a friend, a brother, a mentor to my students.†
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- I was so at sea that I called my mentor, Andy van Dam.†
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- One of my greatest mentors was Andy van Dam, my computer science professor when I was at Brown.†
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- But Andy van Dam, my "Dutch uncle" and mentor at Brown, advised me, "Get yourself a PhD.†
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- It was a brick wall surmounted with a huge boost from a mentor and some sincere groveling.†
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- He gave me ninety minutes and became a lifelong mentor to me.†
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Definitions:
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(1)
(mentor) someone who guides and advises another who is less experienced; or the act of providing such guidance
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(meaning too rare to warrant focus) Much less commonly, in the ancient Greek story of The Odyssey, Mentor was a friend of Odysseus.