One question, one mentor, one half hour.
RIT alumni mentor each other, and they mentor students still on campus. Pick the topic you are stuck on, read who has done it, send that one person a request — then sign in to follow it through to a rated session.
Mentoring runs in two directions here
The association does not treat mentoring as something senior people do to juniors. Most of it happens between alumni who are three or four years apart.
Peers a few steps ahead
A 2019 graduate deciding whether to leave a service company for a product team can ask a 2015 graduate who already did it. Domain switches, offers abroad, the first management role, going independent.
Campus to first job
Students still at Rajapalayam get the alumnus who sat the same interview. Internships, GATE and GRE decisions, which electives actually matter, and how a first-round technical round really runs.
What happens to a booking
Requested
Logged against one mentor and one topic. It stays here, visibly waiting, until that mentor answers.
Accepted or declined
Only the mentor it was sent to can answer it, and only a new request can be accepted or declined. Declined is final — the seeker books again rather than reopening it.
Completed
Only an accepted request can be completed, and only by that same mentor. They close it after the call actually happened.
Feedback
Opens on completion and is submitted once, by the person who booked it: a rating out of five and an optional note that stays with the request.
Browsing the roster, filtering by topic and sending a request need no account — a student weighing a first internship should not have to sign up to ask a question. Reading a request back does. Tracking your own bookings, a mentor’s inbox and leaving feedback all sit behind sign-in, because a request holds someone’s question and the address they read, and the server will only hand it to the two people it belongs to.
Match on the topic, then on the person
Topics come from what mentors declared on their own profiles. The count is how many alumni are open to that conversation right now.
Send the request to one person
No account needed for this part. The mentor gets your question, your batch status and your preferred slot, and the request sits in their inbox as awaiting until they accept or decline it.
Pick a mentor to open the form.
Every request goes to one named alumnus. Choose Request mentorship on a card above and the fields appear here, filled with that mentor and your current topic.
Track the requests you sent
Your own bookings, newest first, with each status, how long it has been waiting, and the rating form once the mentor closes the session.
If you are the mentor, work your queue
Your own incoming requests. Accept or decline a new one, then mark it completed once the call has happened — completing it is what opens the seeker's rating form.