-: I think relaxing so that he's clickin' on all cylinders.
He's prepared but he's spontaneous.
He's grounded in his discipline, his or her discipline
because now, you know, 55% of the professors are female.
But not closed to new ideas.
Availability.
A lot of times students see you as unapproachable.
And sometimes they don't realize that you're working
with some abstract idea and you're preoccupied
and so, being open and willing to mentor.
Very beginning I was not willing to mentor.
I was so preoccupied trying to get my own thing together
I had very little time for other people
and I kinda regret that period of time
because mentoring was so important to me
and I was waiting for students to kinda reach out to me,
but now I'm a little more proactive.