This week the class read a section from the book Outliers. I thought that reading the section about the town of Roseto, was a great way to start off the class because it got everyone thinking about our sociological imagination, or the effect that a person's surroundings has on them. Its the way that a person's friends, family, culture, religion affect them. It can even be the year that the person was born in, or the type of clothes that people wear. It all affects you as a person. This is true in my life as well! Growing up in the Midwest, I am sheltered as well as exposed to things that other kids around the world aren't. That means that I will have different opinions about things then maybe some other kids would who live in another country, or even in another state. That might mean that I view something like college differently than another kid my age. I go to a high school where almost all of its students go to college. For me, its a given! However, for another student somewhere across the country, maybe in the city, college might be something that they just don't see as a possibility or something important. It all depends on how your environment affects you.