The wave in Olin reminded me that the opposite is also true. This is why I’ve come to think of office hours not as a time slot, but as a metaphor. In my first column, I wrote about office hours — about the strange, underused gift of an open door. That wave in Olin mattered because it reminded me that education is not just a sequence of courses, but a web of relationships over time. Professor Jan Burzlaff Jan Burzlaff is an Opinion Columnist and a Postdoctoral Associate in the Program for Jewish Studies.
