A new manuscript came across my desk this morning which pleasantly surprised me. The author was Samuel Shen, my Master’s thesis research supervisor with whom I continue to have a mentoring relationship, and the subject was detecting climate change signals using statistical methods.
This topic in particular brought me back to a moment in 1999 when I was floating around the university in my home town, trying to decide what to do next in my life. I noticed a posting in the math department for a colloquium talk on this topic to be given by a visiting researcher. The topic interested me, even though I had no background in climate studies, so I went and checked it out. Samuel Shen, whom I had not known before, was the host professor for the talk, and I was sufficiently impressed by what I experienced in that moment in time. A few days later, I found myself in his office requesting to study a Master’s degree under him. This led to two and a half years of study, and upon graduation, the opportunity to work in China. The rest, they say, is history.
isnt it interesting how that ended up isnt it? and your happy with the situation you are in i presume. al teas you still get to work with him (or are you)
Yeah, China’s really cool. It’s good. And Dr. Shen is my life-long mentor. He keeps such a relationship with all his students, and I’m quite blessed by his care and guidance.
Some people were meat to be angels, guidorss, mentors.
Hugs.
thats a good thing. as long as you and him keep it going it WILL be a life long thing