Underclassmen, get excited!
Starting Fall 2019, our TBP chapter began a mentorship program for freshman interested in engineering. Current TBP juniors are paired with first year students based on personal and academic interests. We hosted a kickoff meeting in November for everyone to get to know their partner. From there, pairs are free to meet as frequently as they want to discuss things like deciding on a major, course selection, and other extracurricular clubs and societies both in and out of engineering.
We view this program as an opportunity to expand TBP’s presence in the engineering division at Lafayette and to give first year students access to real, candid advice from people who were in there shoes not too long ago.
So far, we have 13 underclassmen being mentored by our juniors. Next year, we hope to expand the program to offer continued guidance to sophomores as well as the new class of first year engineers. Cheers to a successful pilot of this awesome new initiative!