Mentor

Every first-year student is assigned to a mentor group, led by a senior student of the programme. Your mentor is there to help you adjust to life at university and your programme in particular, with (group) mentor meetings, individual talks and social activities. Your mentor is the first point of contact while you get settled. During the first half year of the programme there will be several meetings where you can ask them anything.

Your mentor will contact you on Friday the 29th of August to introduce themself and let you know which mentor group you have been assigned to. If you have not received a mail from your mentor before 1 September, please email your academic advisors (academicadvisor.cs@rug.nl) about this and include your student number and a cell phone number, if possible.

Your first mentor meeting will be held on campus on Monday, 1 September 2025 between 10:00 and 13:00 depending on your assigned group number. If you have not heard form your mentor and did not receive a reply from the academic advisors make sure to be in the TakeAway* in the Bernoulliborg before 09.30. Your academic advisors Korrie and Rachel will be there from 09.00 and can inform you about your mentor group.
(*TakeAway: take central staircase to the 1st floor, at the reception turn left and take another left, the TakeAway is in the corner)

Your mentor group number also indicates the group you have been assigned to for tutorials and other small-scale activities in the curriculum. You can find it in the schedule as ‘CS yr1 gr [mentor group number]’.