More than half the Thiel Fellows plan on returning to school

Re:More than half the Thiel Fellows plan on returning to school by absherwin on Tuesday July 08, 2014 @08:41PM (#8007538)

Spoiler: The students interviewed are a month into their fellowship. Reporting on decisions that fellows from a couple years back actually made would be more enlightening.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:More than half the Thiel Fellows plan on returning to school by conradev on Tuesday July 08, 2014 @08:45PM (#8007553)

Another spoiler: Only 6 of this year's 20 fellows were mentioned in the article. The fellows are a very diverse group of people.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:More than half the Thiel Fellows plan on returning to school by krrishd on Wednesday July 09, 2014 @12:54AM (#8008132)

I felt the same way about the series Wired did/is doing on the Thiel Fellowship. I wish they'd cover more of the fellows rather than focusing on the few that they do.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:More than half the Thiel Fellows plan on returning to school by conradev on Wednesday July 09, 2014 @01:44AM (#8008235)

I am one of the guys that lives in the house mentioned in the article. One of the problems with press like this is that it tends to focus on the philosophy behind the fellowship instead of the program itself. It's consistently what reporters find most interesting.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:More than half the Thiel Fellows plan on returning to school by septerr on Tuesday July 08, 2014 @11:24PM (#8007914)

Exactly. The title of the article feels like a link bait. It's only been two months!

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:More than half the Thiel Fellows plan on returning to school by zachlatta on Tuesday July 08, 2014 @11:44PM (#8007959)

It's also full of shit. I know many of the new fellows and they're saying that they were misquoted in the article and some of them said that they're not planning on going back, despite Techcrunch writing otherwise.

[ Parent | on HN ]