A Guide to Being a Young Fellow in the City of Fellows

Young Fellows in the city face an enormity of decisions that shall significantly and seriously impact and determine the course of a fellow's future. Acknowledging this ultimate truth and reality brings many young Fellows immense anxieties, uncertainties, and other quandaries. Young Fellows devote countless long hours at their places of interning and fellowing in hopes of advancing and promoting not only their futures, but also their position and place in the humanity of Fellowship, Fellowing, and the American Way. This endless dedication often tears Fellows from activities common and prevalent in the lives of other young adult of the same age (who lack the exposure, dedication, and gift of enlightened path of Fellowship), such as cultivating, emotional, mental, and physical relationships with the converse gender, connecting with the surrounding community, and exploring the intricate dominion of the gastronomic, communiqué, and visual arts. To many outsiders, the vow of Fellowship may seem overbearing in the sacrifices of these common pleasures, and the argument may be posed that perhaps these rigorous demands should not be stipulated of such young Fellows altogether. As a young, conflicted, confused, anxious, deprived, apprehensive, and curious Fellow myself, it is my unyielding aspiration to offer fellow young Fellows a message of hope of perseverance. Our forfeitures during this developing and budding phase of our fellowing shall not go unnoticed and unrewarded. While outsiders may assert that prescribing the philosophy of Fellowship may inhibit the progression of socially adept and balanced young adults, our early enthusiasm and keenness to the Fellowship shall yield momentous rewards in the future.