Mentor Time in UPH Festival 24

Mentor with The Mentee in Mentor Time

“Things are never quite as scary when you’ve got a best friend”, it seems that Bill Watterson’s quote which can represent the feeling of new students when they entering UPH on the first day and meeting their mentors.

Specifically, UPH provides mentors who have been selected and prepared, in order to guide new students especially in the event of UPH Festival. One mentor leads about 10 new students in each mentor’s group. These mentors are in charge to remind their member’s schedule to guide their lectures. 

The process itself is not easy because from 400 prospective mentors who applied, approximately only about 200 mentors are selected. The early process is the Head mentor will select the Chief Mentors and after that Chief Mentors will pick the Mentors.

Furthermore, the selected mentor will be trained for 3 days and two nights twice in a row. Selected mentors have considered academically, but also spiritually, especially No SAD (Sex, Alcohol, and Drugs).

UPH also facilitates a special Mentor time session on the third day of UPH Festival, where new students or mentees gathered with their each mentor according to their respective groups. The groups scatter along the Food Junction to the edge of the Olympic size pool.

In this mentor time session, the members (mentee) are given three questions, such as a question about someone who impresses them and often helps in the term of being a best friend, other than that is the question of their ambitions in the next 5 to 10 years, and the last is; what UPH can help them to achieve their ambitions.

But, even though UPH Festival has been finished, their job as mentors will continue forever. To lead by example, as a mentor and good role model for new students in UPH. In accordance with the Mentor tagline from UPH, the People Grower, which means to guide and grow new students to a more true life for the glory of God.

Here are some testimonials from mentors and mentees (new students)