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...more of Harvard’s myriad community service programs. Others volunteer and serve in less formal but equally meaningful ways. Community outreach and service, though, is something that all, and not just most, students should play a part in. The next time you get an email from your House e-mail list promoting a community outreach and service event, give it some actual thought before routinely purging it from your inbox. Choose to volunteer on a shift with the Harvard Square Homeless Shelter, go on a building day with Habitat for Humanity, or help distribute meals to impoverished Cambridge...
Additionally, it is worthwhile for students to have an opportunity to communicate directly with the people who are evaluating their work. Although office hours with a teaching assistant would be ideal, given the understandable constraints of tight budgets, even having the option to email evaluators with questions is worthwhile and preferable to a complete lack of contact. Although large classes are often the norm at some universities, schools should never overextend enrollment of classes to the point where they do not have the adequate resources—both physical and human—to accommodate all of the students...
...letters can’t be because of a lack of time or an expenditure of unnecessary effort; it took me approximately 23 seconds and zero brainpower to type those above three sentences. The average employer could (and probably does, for those who still do this) staff that little email out to their current intern or secretary, who can easily send it en masse to however many applicants need to be notified. Therefore, it is just plain rude to not acknowledge an applicant’s desire for, and the often-considerable effort they put into, asking...
Ilisa Barbash: When we were professors the University at Boulder, we got an email from friends at NYU who knew someone who was leasing land to the rancher in the film. He had told them, “I am the last guy to ranch like this, and someone should make a film about me.” He would be the last rancher to ranch in the Absaroka-Beartooth Mountains for the summer. The email asked if we had students who might be interested in doing the movie. We said, “No, we?...
Gold-Parker, who will be playing in the concert, echoed Lee’s sentiments in an email: “I’m pretty excited for Yardfest, but it bothers me that most students get really excited for contemporary stars like Kid Cudi but miss the fact that jazz artists like Jimmy Heath have had an immeasurably larger impact on American music,” he says. “I hope that the OFA can advertise the show in a way that gets students excited...