OK. What’s the purpose of having it be all-consuming? Are you selecting for people who are truly committed? Are there returns to scale? Are you trying to break people out of old habits by denying them time in which to indulge them?
Indeed—can someone speak to this? I’m married with a full time engineering job. There’s no way I could get 10 weeks for this, despite how much I really, really, really want to. This seems tailored toward the unemployed, students, or simply those with ridiculously flexible work arrangements that I can’t even fathom.
I favor the post above about making materials available. Heck.. maybe you should video record all the lectures as well.
I definitely see the benefits of “full immersion”—it’s just that at a certain point in life, I can’t see ever being able to “fully immerse” myself again. I finally have the awareness and desire for things like this… but it’s at a time when I can’t participate. When I could have participated, I don’t think I would have fully appreciated what a fantastic opportunity something like this would have been.
This seems tailored toward the unemployed, students, or simply those with ridiculously flexible work arrangements that I can’t even fathom.
Pretty sure most of SIAI’s visiting fellows so far have been unemployed or students—based on my experience with the fellows program, it’s all-consuming in the sense that the fellows do most of their work and recreation in close proximity to other fellows. (And the fellows program used to be a summer fellows program, for what that’s worth.)
A friend of mine pointed out that the folks that were part of the fellows program didn’t seem terribly practical or results-oriented, and I suppose in retrospect this selection of unemployed folks could have been the reason why. (Come to think of it, when I knew people in the summer visiting fellows program, there were a few who were practical and results-oriented—I suppose this might have been a result of their falling in to the “student” category instead of the “unemployed” category. My friend only had experience with folks in the non-summer fellows program.)
OK. What’s the purpose of having it be all-consuming? Are you selecting for people who are truly committed? Are there returns to scale? Are you trying to break people out of old habits by denying them time in which to indulge them?
Indeed—can someone speak to this? I’m married with a full time engineering job. There’s no way I could get 10 weeks for this, despite how much I really, really, really want to. This seems tailored toward the unemployed, students, or simply those with ridiculously flexible work arrangements that I can’t even fathom.
I favor the post above about making materials available. Heck.. maybe you should video record all the lectures as well.
I definitely see the benefits of “full immersion”—it’s just that at a certain point in life, I can’t see ever being able to “fully immerse” myself again. I finally have the awareness and desire for things like this… but it’s at a time when I can’t participate. When I could have participated, I don’t think I would have fully appreciated what a fantastic opportunity something like this would have been.
Does that make sense?
Pretty sure most of SIAI’s visiting fellows so far have been unemployed or students—based on my experience with the fellows program, it’s all-consuming in the sense that the fellows do most of their work and recreation in close proximity to other fellows. (And the fellows program used to be a summer fellows program, for what that’s worth.)
A friend of mine pointed out that the folks that were part of the fellows program didn’t seem terribly practical or results-oriented, and I suppose in retrospect this selection of unemployed folks could have been the reason why. (Come to think of it, when I knew people in the summer visiting fellows program, there were a few who were practical and results-oriented—I suppose this might have been a result of their falling in to the “student” category instead of the “unemployed” category. My friend only had experience with folks in the non-summer fellows program.)
Makes sense to me—I’m in quite a similar position.