Yeah I think when you're just starting, the most mentorship you need is the teacher of a programming class you're taking. The reason being that to find a good mentor, one who can really teach you a lot about hacking, you will need to have some baseline skills, otherwise you're just wasting that person's time with beginner questions that can be answered in 5 seconds on Google, or 30 seconds on irc if you don't even know where to start.