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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.