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This article presents a student-to-student mentoring program, which matches current and incoming students to ease the new student's transition to and involvement i n graduate schml.Admission to graduate study begins a period of unavoidable life changes, challenges, and'difflcult transitions. Studies have consistently shown that new students are at risk for physical and psychological problems and moderate to major crises during their fist semester of graduate school (Goplerud, 1980;Halleck. 1976;Kuh & Thomas, 1983;Valdez, 1982). Over half of first-year and secondyear graduate students scored in the crisis category on the Holmes and Rahe (1967) Social Readjustment Rating Scale (Goplerud, 1980;Valdez, 1982

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