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Be brave, be good, never walk alone

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As part of an alumni club association's activities, I volunteer as a mentor for university and polytechnic students.  Last year, I had a batch of Temasek Polytechnic students, and I've just completed this year's programme with a batch of NTU students. They sent me and my co-mentor a heart-warming set of individual thank you notes so, here's my note in return! ====== Dear J, J, M, P and Y (in alphabetical order...) Thanks for spending your time with J (another J!) and me over the last half-year.  It's been an odd sort of experience, since so much of it was conducted via Skype due to the Covid-19 situation.  Still, we did manage to meet up in person a number of times.  I really appreciate the thank you notes you sent - they are really nice, and I look forward to meeting again after the circuit breaker period is over. I thought long and hard about what concluding advice I had, especially since you have already heard much about what J and I believe ab