Narration: Three students are discussing if the school should provide one-on-one career mentor services for undergraduates. Speaker 1: I hope the school launches this service! As a junior in environmental science, I'm stuck between grad school and an NGO job. The career center's workshops only cover resumes no major-specific advice. A mentor could share useful internships or connect me with pros. My friend got a national park internship via her mentor something workshops can't offer. Speaker2: It's not feasible. Hiring major-specific mentors would drain the budget; our career center only has three swamped counsellors. Plus, students won't use it consistently my roommate skipped a career chat for a lab report. It'd waste resources. Speaker3: I agree. Even alumni mentors might give outdated advice my sister's mentor pushed print journalism, which is shrinking now. Scheduling is hard too, alumni have jobs, so students might wait weeks and miss internship deadlines. Shy students also won't open up to strangers. Speaker 1: These issues can be fixed! Train alumni on trends, offer virtual evening sessions, and let shy students start with 15-minute chats. My environmental professor even offered to volunteer, and she has connections with local sustainability organizations. Speaker2: Training doesn't fix low usage. Freshmen/sophomores don't know their majors, and juniors might use it once. The school should add major-specific workshops instead more students would benefit, like a "Green Job Paths" workshop for environmental science majors. Speaker3: Exactly! Extra credit would only get students to attend for points, not advice. I'd ask my professor they know my strengths, like my good research skills, which a stranger mentor wouldn't notice. The career center should improve existing resources, not add a new system. Speaker 1: Professors are too busy for detailed advice. My environmental professor has 1 50 students, so she can only spend 10 minutes with me each month. Even 2096 of 5,000 students (1,000) getting help is worth it those students might end up in careers they love instead of feeling lost after graduation. Speaker2: 1,000 students don't justify the cost. Last year, the school cut our lab supply budget to add a new career tool, and it barely got used. Budget is better for scholarships or labs my lab group had to share old equipment last semester because we couldn't afford new ones. Speaker3: Fix what we have first. The career center's online job board hasn't been updated in two months fixing that would help more students than a mentor program, since many of us check the board weekly for internship postings. The mentor program sounds good on paper, but it won't work for our school.