Cramped is good. It means growth. The non-profit, named MentorNet, plans to match 1,000 students nationwide with mentors this year. Finding students is easy. Muller worries about as Friday's volunteering deadline approaches.
Mentors offer living proof that woman do succeed in fields often portrayed as male territory.
It's a good question. And it's good to have someone to answer it. Megan Wiley was ready to quit her Stanford doctorate program when she first wrote to her mentor. She no longer aspired to be a professor and wondered what good an environmental engineering Ph.D. would do in the real world. And yes, after years of mostly male professors, it is important to have a woman to turn to.