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Chooses serious but approachable texts.
The reading should stretch students without becoming a performance.
Mentors who enjoy helping students think.
Tangent mentors are researchers, professionals, and deep readers.
What makes a Tangent mentor different?
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Helps confusion become productive.
Confusion is treated as a place to begin, not something to hide.
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Asks better questions.
Mentors avoid quick answers when a sharper question would do more.
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Models intellectual honesty.
Students see what careful thinking sounds like in real time.
Current mentors
Dr. Sushrut Thorat
Cognitive computational neuroscientist
Supervised students across undergraduate, Master's, and PhD levels, and has led reading groups in university and informal settings.
B.Tech IIT Bombay · MSc University of Trento · PhD Radboud University · Postdoc Osnabrück University.
Amogh Deshpande
Physicist
Taught high school Physics, Calculus, and Mathematics, along with undergraduate Physics.
B.Sc. Azim Premji University · M.Sc. Physics (ongoing), IMAPP.
Co-founder
LinkedIn
For prospective mentors
Interested in mentoring with Tangent?
Researchers, teachers, and domain experts who care about serious small-group mentoring are welcome to write in.