Agronomy Department Mentoring Programs

Establishing a foundational relationship with your peers and mentors is an important part of the college experience. Freshman year comes with challenges but, when upper classmen reach out to help guide and teach it can minimize those difficulties. Even in my sophomore year I have been able to take my experiences and learn from them to help advise those in their first year.

The agronomy department has two mentoring programs that students can participate in to build relationships and gain advise from. The first program is the Agronomy Friend which is where freshmen can choose to be paired with an upper-class man to have someone to reach out to and become friends with. I have thoroughly enjoyed being on both ends of this program because I have gained two meaningful friendships from it. The other opportunity is through the Faculty Mentor program, where each student is assigned a mentor and will meet with them once a semester. During each of these meetings the faculty member shares words of wisdom regarding academics and next steps in life. After participating in each of these programs I encourage incoming students to take advantage of them and I am grateful for the resources that the agronomy department provides for their students.