After publication of the May-June feature “The Homelessness Public Health Crisis,” Harvard Magazine received an email from Jason Adam Sheets, M.T.S. There was not one definitive event that led to my having to sleep beside train tracks or on bathroom floors. program in creative writing, four years before I received a full scholarship to study poetry at Harvard. In both of these worlds, though, I’m a homeless Harvard alum—a paradox to most. I work another part-time job as an overnight safety coordinator youth worker for a homeless shelter in Harvard Square.