M&M (“Mentors & Mentees”) is a peer-mentoring program open to all female engineering undergraduate students at GT. Mentoring is a nurturing process that fosters the growth and development of the protégé (Mentee) and develops the leadership skills of the protector (Mentor). It is a relationship in which a more experienced person (the Mentor) provides support, encouragement and knowledge with a less experienced person (the Mentee). The goal of M&M is to help reduce the isolation and stress every student sometimes feels at GT.

If you’re a Mentee, your Mentor will give you valuable advice on how to survive academically at Tech, how to study, how to pick your classes, as well as general life advice – how to make best use of your time at Tech, what’s fun to do in Atlanta, how to best prepare for the “real world.” If you’re a Mentor, the Mentee will give you a priceless opportunity to give back, help someone succeed, and develop your leadership skills. You will feel good knowing you’re helping someone thrive at Tech. If all goes well, you will both gain a lifelong friend.

M&M is a student-run program where Juniors and Seniors are matched with Freshman and Sophomore students to form M&M “groups”. Each group will consist of one mentor and 2-4 mentees. Every effort is made to match students with the same major, though sometimes there aren’t enough mentors for mentees or vice-versa – in that case, we try to match students with similar majors. It is recommended that each group meets, talks, or emails at least once a week, and they are encouraged to plan fun events to interact based on their interests.

Absolutely! It’s ideal to be on campus so the Pairs can meet face-to-face, but it’s not mandatory. If you’re away, please take advantage of emails, texts, Skype, Facebook, and all social networking tools you both like and use. Every little bit helps and will strengthen your relationship until you can actually meet in person.

Every effort is made to match students by majors so the groups have similar academic experiences, but it’s not possible to do so if there isn’t the same number of Mentees to Mentors (which is usually the case). So we try to match similar majors together, i.e. civil engineering with environmental engineering.

Absolutely not!!! All of our meetings are fun and provide a meal, so most groups like to attend them.

Like most things in life, you get out of it what you put into it. Mentors must make time for the relationships, and mentees must be open to being mentored. Mentees are responsible for their own learning, and mentors support and learn with them. So ultimately, it’s up to you. We recommend one “meeting” a week, whether in person, over the phone, by email, etc., and those can be as long as the group likes. Ideally, your relationship will develop into a strong friendship, where meeting feels fun and not a time sink.

If a group had a successful mentoring relationship previously, WIE would be thrilled to see that continue. Please email the WIE office at wie@coe.gatech.edu to express interest if you'd like for an established relationship to continue.