In fairness, suppose they’d gone for five weeks instead. A lot of people would probably have looked at it and thought ‘that sounds interesting, and five weeks is easier than ten… but I can’t spare five weeks either’. Though I’d certainly have considered it if it had come up when I was a college student.
Yes, that’s probably true, both in the sense that you’ll always be excluding someone at the margin, and in the sense that people who really don’t want to do it, but don’t want to admit that to themselves, will come up with some other excuse like this one.
In my case, though, I can take 3-5 weeks of leave from work (depending on how carefully I shepherd my resources) before I have to start negotiating unpaid leave. I imagine there are some other people in the same boat.
Who knows… If they do not get enough responses I expect them to change the length. They probably just wrote down everything they ideally would like to have time to teach, and figured out how long they thought it would take at a breakneck pace,
You could apply and decide if you can go later.
Yes, it’s looking like I’d have to do that … a ten week block is a lot.
Is the ten weeks thing designed to select for college students?
In fairness, suppose they’d gone for five weeks instead. A lot of people would probably have looked at it and thought ‘that sounds interesting, and five weeks is easier than ten… but I can’t spare five weeks either’. Though I’d certainly have considered it if it had come up when I was a college student.
Yes, that’s probably true, both in the sense that you’ll always be excluding someone at the margin, and in the sense that people who really don’t want to do it, but don’t want to admit that to themselves, will come up with some other excuse like this one.
In my case, though, I can take 3-5 weeks of leave from work (depending on how carefully I shepherd my resources) before I have to start negotiating unpaid leave. I imagine there are some other people in the same boat.
Who knows… If they do not get enough responses I expect them to change the length. They probably just wrote down everything they ideally would like to have time to teach, and figured out how long they thought it would take at a breakneck pace,
longer == better It surely beats a weekend seminar.