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Introductory Post

Hello everyone,

My name is Maggie and this is my second semester at CWE. I have so far taken all of my other classes at the uptown campus but have had to start taking classes downtown due to my work schedule changing.  I really enjoyed being downtown last semester-the classes are smaller and the students are closer to my age and seem a little more serious and excited about their education.  I wish I had known this earlier so I could have taken all of my classes at CWE!  But I am graduating in the winter so this will be my last semester…yay!

I had two reasons for being interested in this class. I took Professor Bullock’s class last semester and I really liked how it was set up.  Like this semester, we were assigned readings from different books and articles.  I feel that allows students to not just read one textbook by one author, but gives different points of views and insights of different authors, and allows us to read things we may normally not.  I also just thought that learning about the forces behind why people may choose the work that they do would be really interesting, especially in a place and time where there are certain professions that are known ‘money-makers’ but that may not necessarily require as much skill and effort as those which are not as lucrative.

I am majoring in sociology and minoring in psychology. I am very interested in the way people think and behave and feel that learning about people on an individual level as well as looking at them in groups on a more macro level gives the best picture of why we do what we do.  To continue my education, I would like to go to Hunter’s School of Social Work.  I finally reached my goal of working with the population I wanted to-survivors of domestic violence.  I would like to further my knowledge in counseling people by studying social work.

It was nice meeting you all last Wednesday and I am looking forward to everyone’s presentations and more class discussions!

Maggie Wiesner