Hey Ashley, I’m glad someone else is thinking about this too. Here at CMU I’ve been thinking about this too, particularly because CMU students are so busy. I think we miss people who would otherwise be engaged because of the current structure of the intro fellowship.
What I’ve been thinking about is running something like an ‘EA Expo Day’ in the beginning of the semester. It would be a full day with talks and workshops with plenty of capacity. At the same time it would be early in the semester before students get busy. I have a hunch that more people would attend an Expo Day like this than complete the fellowship.
I’m also thinking about ways of making the fellowship more decentralized and fluid, and I intend to experiment with this next semester.
I’d love to coordinate with you on this if you want to do something together within PA!
I like the expo idea a lot; as I was reading I was thinking of whether there could be a retreat that doesn’t involve going anywhere, a full Saturday or Sunday of talks, reading, researching, games, watching videos, having 1-1s, that people can drop into and out of.
That said, I’m not sure I’d trust that anyone who just did one if those was really well acquainted with the ideas or way of thinking.
Hey Ashley, I’m glad someone else is thinking about this too. Here at CMU I’ve been thinking about this too, particularly because CMU students are so busy. I think we miss people who would otherwise be engaged because of the current structure of the intro fellowship.
What I’ve been thinking about is running something like an ‘EA Expo Day’ in the beginning of the semester. It would be a full day with talks and workshops with plenty of capacity. At the same time it would be early in the semester before students get busy. I have a hunch that more people would attend an Expo Day like this than complete the fellowship.
I’m also thinking about ways of making the fellowship more decentralized and fluid, and I intend to experiment with this next semester.
I’d love to coordinate with you on this if you want to do something together within PA!
I like the expo idea a lot; as I was reading I was thinking of whether there could be a retreat that doesn’t involve going anywhere, a full Saturday or Sunday of talks, reading, researching, games, watching videos, having 1-1s, that people can drop into and out of.
That said, I’m not sure I’d trust that anyone who just did one if those was really well acquainted with the ideas or way of thinking.
Yeah I would probably have more experienced community builders fly in to help out.
Sorry, I meant that if that was the only thing someone had done, it wouldn’t have been enough engagement for me to trust they had a good foundation.