What Office Hours are like
Welcome fellow Jumbo! You are probably wondering what it feels like to go for office hours in Tufts. After all, office hours didn’t really exist…
Before getting to Tufts, I had already heard of how collaborative and helpful everyone on campus was. But I was really amazed to experience that myself.
Since the first week of classes, people had this eagerness to help each other. For example, I had some trouble in the beginning of Comp 15 (Data Structures) to get used to the syntax of C++, and I was very lost in the first assignments. My friend Duc (thanks man!) helped me a lot; regardless of how close to the deadline we were, he stopped his project to answer whatever questions I had. That was one of the several instances, involving me or not, that I saw that, for the students here, other people’s needs are at least as important as their own.
In another instance, I was close to the deadline of submitting a physics homework, but I didn’t know how to solve a problem. When I was walking to the submission boxes, I saw this student I didn't know very well at that time, but that I knew was in my class. We said hello to each other and I asked if he could help me with that question. Nofal Ouardaoui (shoutout to him!), who I got to know better later, stopped and helped me right away.
It is also rewarding to be able to help someone in a similar manner. This past semester, a similar situation happened, but I was the person asked for help. I made sure to help the other student as best as I could.
People here collaborate regardless of whether they know each other. They are naturally willing to help, and know the other Tufts students are like that. The other day I was walking in Halligan (where the computer science department is) and this student asked me: “Have you taken Comp 15? I have got some questions.” I happily helped him as I could.
During my first days here (almost an year ago!), I heard everyone saying the same thing: “everyone here is so nice!”, “everyone is so helpful!”. It feels very good to be in a place where we see everyone valuing other people so much, and where we know if we need help, we can easily find someone eager to help.
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