This semester has come with a lot of opportunities to grow and shape my view of my future profession. Before this course, social work was what I wanted to do; I thought I had found my perfect niche. This course revealed to me that there are a lot of problems in social work. These problems arise both because the profession isn’t perfect, and also because we’re working within a fallen world anyway. However, now I have a new purpose as I seek to join this profession. That purpose is to better this profession that I love from this inside out, and I really think that conducting and producing research can do just that. Before this class, I planned on conducting research that sounded interesting to me. I didn’t take into account actual questions that needed answers, or what areas of research were lacking in the profession. Now, however, I feel like my vision is refocused, and I am much more concerned with satisfying the needs of my profession than satisfying the needs of my own inquiry.