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Field-Of-Study: Sociology
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Robin Stryker
When I was a child growing up in Bloomington, Indiana, I was a competitive age-group swimmer — a good thing, because I never met a food I didn’t like. Similarly, I never met a scholarly field in which I lacked interest. Happily, I found I was much better at learning new fields than I was at
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