If you are looking for a career mentor, going to networking events can help you make connections. These events can provide a good opportunity to meet other people who are in (or trying to get into) your chosen field, and some of these people may be potential mentors. If you are in high school or college, you might be able to attend career fairs or networking events hosted by your school, or join a student club related to your interests. If you’re already working, look for opportunities to attend conferences or networking events in your field. If you connect with anyone, be sure to exchange contact information. Send a follow-up email letting them know that you enjoyed meeting them, and leave the door open for further communication. After you have selected your potential mentor, do your research on them.  When you do finally connect, you will be more confident and have more to talk about. You will also make a good impression on your potential mentor by letting them know that you have familiarized yourself with their work and recognize their accomplishments in their field. Find out what work they have done in the past, any awards or accolades they have received, and their general life trajectory that led them to this point. You can do a simple Google search to find this information.  You can also look on their social media accounts or the websites of their current or past employers or schools. Perhaps the person you are hoping will mentor you is your professor or upper level staff person where you work.  Begin establishing a relationship with them in small but meaningful ways.  Visit office hours and talk about your research.  Find ways to interact with your potential mentor at work, such as by attending trainings that they are leading or other functions that they might attend.  The goal is to start building mutual familiarity: as you get to know your potential mentor, they should also be getting to know you.
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One-sentence summary -- Go to networking events and conferences. Do your research on the person. Establish a relationship.


Strictly speaking, a power nap should be between 10 and 30 minutes. However, shorter and longer naps may also offer different benefits. Thus, you need to decide how long you have to nap, and stick with that amount of time. If you don’t have much time, but are so sleepy you cannot continue on with whatever you’re doing, a two to five minute nap, called a “nano-nap” can help you deal with some of that sleepiness. Naps between five and twenty minutes are good for increasing alertness, stamina, and motor performance. These naps are known as “mini-naps”. This is what most people refer to when they refer to a “power nap”, and is ideal for most people. In addition to the benefits of shorter naps, a power nap can help the brain rid itself of unnecessary information stored in short-term memory, and can also improve muscle memory.  A power-nap captures the benefits of the first two of the five stages in the sleep cycle. These first two stages take place in the first twenty minutes. In addition to making you feel more rested and alert, the electrical signals in your nervous system strengthen the connection between neurons involved in muscle memory, making your brain work faster and more accurately. It can be especially useful to take a power nap if you are trying to remember a lot of important facts, for example, for a test. Known as the “Lazy Man’s Nap”, this long nap allows you to reach slow-wave REM sleep (commonly known as deep sleep). Meaning that you get to go through an entire sleep cycle. If you have the time, and are extremely physically and mentally tired after pulling an all-nighter, for example, this nap could be useful because it gives your body enough time to repair itself. While there are benefits to longer naps, you also run the risk of developing “sleep inertia”, which is the heavy, groggy feeling you sometimes feel after napping.
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One-sentence summary -- Decide how long you want to nap. Nap for two to five minutes. Nap for five to twenty minutes. Sleep for twenty minutes. Sleep for fifty to ninety minutes. Be aware of the effects of naps of thirty minutes or longer.


A pregnant mare can be checked for pregnancy hormones to determine pregnancy. This is especially useful when the mare is too irritable for non-chemical methods of determining pregnancy or when the rectum is too small for physical evaluation.  Have a veterinarian take a blood sample. The vet will send the blood sample to a laboratory and have it tested. Test the level of pregnant mare serum gonadotropin (PMSG) 40 to 100 days after your mare has been with a stallion. If your mare was pregnant but lost the fetus, the PMSG test may give inaccurate results. Analyze the level of oestrone sulphate 100 days after the breeding. Oestrone sulphate levels increase with the presence of a foal, but go back to normal if the fetus is aborted. When checking mares for pregnancy, oestrone sulphate can be found in the mare's urine. A urine test can be performed by a veterinarian or using a home test.  Obtain a home pregnancy testing kit from a feed store or online. Test your breeding mare's urine 110 to 300 days after they have been with a stallion. Cut a 1 gallon (3.8 L) or 2-liter liquid container in half with a knife. Use the bottom to collect your mare's urine. Follow the directions on the pregnancy test kit to analyze your mare's urine. It takes 10 minutes to obtain the results. Using chemical-based tests can indicate that your mare is pregnant, but it is good to have another test performed by a vet—whether chemical or non-chemical—to ensure the foal has not slipped the foetus. Also, chemical-based tests are sometimes used improperly, so a positive result should be confirmed by a veterinarian.
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Have a blood test performed on your mare. Give your breeding mare a urine test. Confirm pregnancy test results.