Personally I think the idea of a secondary mentor is very self assuring. Although the main mentor will be the person that will actually do most of the supervising the secondary mentor can serve as an bridge between the main mentor and myself. I think even in situations where there might be some friction between my main mentor and myself the secondary mentor could be an outlet to ease things out. Also there will be a lot of things that my main mentor might not know, if this happens then my secondary mentor might be able to help me with those. I think that a good idea would be to find a secondary mentor even outside of school. I have in mind already two people that do some new media prouctions proffesionally that could be of great help as secondary mentors. I think that someone that is not supportive would definetely NOT be a good candidate for this position. Also someone that is not very close to me would not make a good secondary mentor. I am looking for someone that I can trust and he can critique my work. I also need them to be there for me for support and whenever stress takes over. If they are not patient they would not be good candidates for this position. I have two very strong candidates that could be my secondary mentors. Both of them are very close to me.
Miguel Casar
Area of expertise: He is a psychologist and a photographer. Knows a lot about action sports media productions.
What he expects from me: As my brother Miguel has probably the highest expectations of myself. He expects me to excel in whatever I set as my goals. He will push me to do so and give me full support.
His general availability for mentoring next semester: He is going to be travelling back and forth between Asia, Mexico and the USA so his availability will vary. I plan to use his mentoring a lot when he is around. Whenever he is travelling I am going to try to contact him through the web.
Projects that Thomas is not very interested in: Miguel is not very interested in projects that have any negative impact of society or on the sport of climbing. This is obviously something i am not interested in either so there will not be any problems in that regard.
His thoughts on a primary advisor: He was excited that I will be having a primary advisor that knows a lot more of the technical issues than he does. He will make sure to engine my thinking process so I can take my thoughts to my primary advisor and get the needed technical support.
Tim Yates
Area of expertise: Visual arts and photography. He works for the medical department of IU at IUPUI.
What he expects from me: Tim is one of my close climbing friends. He has been producing New Media projects for IU for 10 years now. His experience with photography is very extensive. Time expects me to do something very cool, he is excited about my project. One thin that he told me that he is looking forward is for me to be brave and do something extremelly creative and new.
His general availability for mentoring next semester: Since he works at IUPUI he will be conveniently located close to me. He said his schedule next semester will be fairly open so I can stop by whenever i want. I climb with him very often too so we could discuss the project at those times too.
Projects that Tim is not very interested in: Tim has no preferences he did say he would not be able to help me a lot if my project had to do with fashion or any of the related fields. Again, not an issue, fashion will have no play in my project.
His thoughts on a primary advisor: He also supports the idea that I will having a primary mentor. He said we can form questions and ideas together that can be taken to my primary advisor. He is excited to learn from him too.
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