Strange thing. I didn't think students were able to publish their own reviews if they have a mentor. I got a mentor right away, before asking to be advanced, so maybe that's why I didn't know it could work this way. Perhaps if you're advanced before you get a mentor, you can go behind their back and publish your reviews yourself? What?

I have a student who's been completely and totally inactive, but has only gotten in touch with me asking for a push assignment. I don't know what happened. They wouldn't reply, but I see reviews being published by them and I did not graduate them or fail them, so it was odd to me.

What's the cause of this? Is this normal? Also, if they decided they wanted to be on their own with reviewing suddenly, why not tell me? Am I missing something? Has this ever happened to any of you mentors? What did you do? Graduate them, fail them?

Just curious since I wasn't aware this could happen and since I wasn't getting reponses from the student except to ask for push assignments.