Be a mentor

I can't really say I have been a mentor to others. It's not very often that you see me giving advice to someone in need, but I have done it before. It happened last year during the first month of school. I was talking to a grade 9 student in the English room. He seemed quite anxious about school. So we were talking about school and how it was quite hard to adapt to this school when a teacher interrupted us and told us to stop talking. The kid really took it to heart because he picked up his pen and started working. I told him, "You know, you shouldn't take what teachers say so serio…