Anthony Jack urges students to ask for help
This is part of a series called Focal Point, in which we ask a range of Harvard faculty members to answer the same question. Focal Point Anthony Jack Question: If you were to write a letter to your students, what would you want them to know? Never, ever be afraid to ask for help. This is not something that I say just to say it. Life has a way of making you practice what you preach. It is not always easy, but, for me, it is always necessary. At 11:43 a.m. on Aug. 10, 2015, I sent an email. And it changed my life. I had been sitting at my desk in Mather House, where I was a resident tutor, for about two hours drafting and redrafting a letter. It was a note to William Julius Wilson, my adviser. By my last year in graduate school, we had had plenty of meetings, both serious and fun, and...