# My niece is a Fulbright Scholar! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 22, 2025, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-niece-is-a-fulbright-scholar/1018689 "2025-05-22T22:39:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2025, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-niece-is-a-fulbright-scholar/1018689/1 "2025-05-22T22:39:46Z")
For those of you who follow me, more or less, yes, this is the same niece who has gone to Indonesia twice, as part of two different exchange programs. She will be teaching English in Slovakia during the next academic year. Congrats to her! What an honor. ---
**Author:** ![StGermain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stgermain/32/2868_2.png) [@StGermain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StGermain)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2025, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-niece-is-a-fulbright-scholar/1018689/2 "2025-05-23T00:11:19Z")
Congratulations to her! StG ---
**Author:** ![bump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7c8e57/32.png) [@bump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bump)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2025, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-niece-is-a-fulbright-scholar/1018689/3 "2025-05-23T02:50:59Z")
That’s awesome! Good for her! ---
**Author:** ![China\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/779978/32.png) [@China\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/China_Guy)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2025, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-niece-is-a-fulbright-scholar/1018689/4 "2025-05-23T02:56:23Z")
Nice job. Do the Fulbright and us proud! ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2025, 5:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-niece-is-a-fulbright-scholar/1018689/5 "2025-05-23T05:05:09Z")
I just hope this agency’s budget isn’t cut, too. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2025, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-niece-is-a-fulbright-scholar/1018689/6 "2025-05-23T22:10:59Z")
She will be living and working in the eastern Slovak city of Kosice. I have no idea how to pronounce that, and I don’t do diacritical marks LOL. > **[Košice](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ko%C5%A1ice)** > > Košice\[a\] is the largest city in eastern Slovakia. It is situated on the river Hornád at the eastern reaches of the Slovak Ore Mountains, near the border with Hungary. With a population of approximately 230,000, Košice is the second-largest city in Slovakia, after the capital Bratislava. > Being the economic and cultural centre of eastern Slovakia, Košice is the seat of the Košice Region and Košice Self-governing Region, it belongs to the Košice-Prešov agglomeration, and is home to the Slovak Co... ---
**Author:** ![Digital\_is\_the\_new\_Analog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a88e4f/32.png) [@Digital\_is\_the\_new\_Analog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Digital_is_the_new_Analog)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2025, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-niece-is-a-fulbright-scholar/1018689/7 "2025-05-24T00:14:00Z")
That’s awesome! Congrats! ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2025, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-niece-is-a-fulbright-scholar/1018689/8 "2025-05-24T00:42:56Z")
Great news! And all Dopers have now claimed her as OUR niece. ---
**Author:** ![ASanders](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asanders/32/3367_2.png) [@ASanders](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ASanders)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2025, 12:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-niece-is-a-fulbright-scholar/1018689/9 "2025-05-24T12:00:01Z")
Wow, congratulations to her!! ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2025, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-niece-is-a-fulbright-scholar/1018689/10 "2025-06-13T01:58:23Z")
This does not look good. I hope she still gets to participate. > **[Fulbright scholarship board members resign over ‘unprecedented actions’ by...](https://www.cnn.com/2025/06/12/politics/fulbright-scholarship-board-resign-trump)** > > Nearly all of the members of the Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board resigned on Wednesday, claiming the Trump administration is taking “unprecedented actions” they believe are “impermissible under the law.” ---
**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2025, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-niece-is-a-fulbright-scholar/1018689/11 "2025-06-13T23:00:02Z")
> [@nearwildheaven](#): > > This does not look good. I hope she still gets to participate. Sorry to hear this. My son, who has a paid internship through one of his college professors, had initially heard he was going to get a $4k government grant to continue to do his work over the Summer (programming a medical app to assist doctors in diagnoses), but then found out it wasn’t happening after all. One guess as to the very likely reason why… ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2025, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-niece-is-a-fulbright-scholar/1018689/12 "2025-08-25T22:33:05Z")
As of today, she’s off to Kosice, via Charlotte, Dublin, and Budapest, and then a bus to Kosice. Her apartment is waiting for her. This is going to be quite an adventure! ---
**Author:** ![pjd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pjd/32/3009_2.png) [@pjd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pjd)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2025, 12:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-niece-is-a-fulbright-scholar/1018689/13 "2025-08-26T12:49:19Z")
👍 ❗