Perhaps a better advisor for you could have helped you with your path, without the collateral cost of shutting down other’s opportunities. A good advisor, form

Perhaps a better advisor for you could have helped you with your path, without the collateral cost of shutting down other’s opportunities. A good advisor, formal or personal, can make a lifetime of difference. If there was ever a low cost, high return opportunity for improvement it would be treating student advising with much greater priority and seriousness.