fellowship

I don't see the downside of the Thiel fellowship, at least on its surface.

I had won a personal fellowship to fund myself.

I did 80+ hours per week for years in medical school, residency, and fellowship.

Weighted for risk, the winning play in Silicon Valley is not to take a Thiel fellowship and go found a startup.

This ability could have interesting repercussions in the way I write about my research, or the way that I craft something like grant or fellowship applications.

It looks like most of these kids already have a top college acceptance in had before accepting Thiel's fellowship, which gives them a backup option in the very likely scenario their "dreams" don't pan out.

To wit:- Driving and car ownership- Lack of convenience, quality and variety in food choices- Fewer options for personal fellowship and professional networking- Cannabis prohibition- Loss of weather I love- Dull landscape...to name a fewPeople live in San Francisco 'cause it's wonderful and they can. Only a gun could "lure" me from here.

Khan writes that he admires the work of Peter Thiel, founder of PayPal, who set up a fellowship program for college students to drop out and pursue entrepreneurship with the help of financial backing and mentors"The entire world is not cut out to be entrepreneurial.

From the article: "The university insists that Mr. Chens law school fellowship was always meant to be for one year, and those who have worked closely with him in recent months said he understood the time limitations of a financial arrangement that even Mr. Chen acknowledged was extremely generous.

> With the $18,000 fellowship, Gan will collaborate with industry and researchers around the world to work on new breakthroughs for data storage devices, and also see how his existing research can be used on a larger scale to rapidly improve the capacity of optics-based information technologies.$18K seems like a drop in the bucket for powering this kind of research.