“Thanks for being one of the few who wants to give back and help oth­ers. Few men­tors can ‘pull the cre­ative beast out of hid­ing’. Thank you for being such a pow­er­ful guide and influ­ence.” –Kristin Rinaldi

“Would it be okay for me to call you my men­tor? Role mod­els are becom­ing rarer and rarer for us kids these days… I’ve been look­ing for some­one who knows how to bal­ance the cre­ative and entre­pre­neur­ial side of things (which you seem to be doing).” –George Sio­sism

“Mike has such a great abil­ity to keep feed­back and crit­i­cism in a sim­ple, yet directly infor­ma­tive way. He believes and encour­ages those under his men­tor­ing. His pas­sion and patience to help stu­dents like me exceeds many other men­tors out there, and for that I’m grate­ful.”? –Dustin Gar­cia

“I learned a lot of things about being more pro­fes­sional and doing things to make myself a bet­ter artist. I would def­i­nitely rec­om­mend this class to other stu­dents. Your teach­ing was clear and to the point.”? –Regine Fran­cois

“One of the things that I liked most is that you were VERY con­sis­tent. From observ­ing you, I was able to see first hand, how to inter­act with peo­ple. That was some­thing that I had been strug­gling to fig­ure out the week before. I’m refer­ing to that bal­ance between pro­fes­sional, and casual when net­work­ing.”?? –Leonard Nico­las