Significance: Statistical, Theoretical, Social

The best thing about "homecoming" this time is that it is giving me hints to become a socially relevant academic in the future. While I was in Ann Arbor, Iwas isolated from "real" people. Here I am surrounded by teachers, administrators, workers, parents, children, and all those non-academic human beings who engage in hard, sweaty, and mundane activities. By interacting with them on a daily basis, I can somehow feel the workings of social forces, whereas in the U.S. I only theorized them inside of the university.... I think it is education and human development where I can connect my academicwork to "real" people's concerns.