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Examples of what not to do are very useful to me, but it's sad that you had to go through a bad experience to have this wisdom to pass on. Thank you.

I am definitely planning to proof-read and generally comment on drafts of any writing my student does, that much I'm sure I can get right! Actually it's something I happen to be reasonably good at.

The advantage of having nearly no money for this project is that I also have almost no strings; there's a lot of flexibility in where we take the project. I've said from the beginning that I'll try to set things up so Minion can pursue her interests rather than having to follow mine. Obviously I am ambitious and do want to further my own career, but it is no help to me if I make her work on stuff she doesn't feel confident with and she ends up not completing. If she wants do things that are very clinical, I hope I can get my friendly surgeons to train her rather than having a "blind leading the blind" situation. My post-doc involved me working on things my supervisor knew little about (he's a yeast geneticist, I do cancer cell biology), and this was a big problem for me, so I need to be very careful about that.