@gogreen18 Ms Green, I don't know how much advice you may already have received from grizzled veterans like me, but grad school is tough.
Obviously good mentors often find themselves mobbed by would-be acolytes. Avoid them. Remember, you need prolonged, close-range access.
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Look instead for persons whose mentoring skills may be less than perfect, but have deep knowledge, and the time and inclination to share it.
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An unfair fact of grad school is that persistent extroverts have an easier time extracting high-value tacit knowledge from their mentors.
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