You get out what you put in. And the single highest value factor, for me, was the fellow students; my seminars were routinely nearly 50:50 male/female, with folks from a dozen different disciplines, from a half-dozen different nationalities, yet with just enough in common to provoke a productive dialogue and working session. Average age skewed older; most people had careers of some kind already, or were adjuncting or tenure-track.

Update/disclosure: Currently writing my Masters thesis, was at the Saas-Fee location for seminars in 2014-2015.

Anybody from HN has been to EGS? After reading this article, I became very curious about it. Interested in hearing more stories.

I earned my PhD at EGS and am very happy to share my experience there. Full disclosure: Dan mentioned me and my colleagues (we created the media-agnostic publication, continent., continentcontinent.cc) in the article above.