masters student looking for mentor advice [D]
A master's student starting at an R1 institute is seeking advice on finding mentorship for their machine learning thesis. The student's assigned advisor expects them to be fully independent and find their own technical mentors, as the advisor has not coded in decades and cannot assist with the data analysis and programming aspects of the project. The student is considering cold-emailing postdocs or senior students at other universities but is concerned about their availability and willingness to mentor someone outside their institution. AI