My name is Mark Nelson, and I am a sociology major here at CUNY SPS in my final year of study. I’ve returned to college (after working in game development and visual design) to study sociology because it has always been an interest of mine. I have literally been a bonafide armchair sociologist since middle school. For every social issue presented in the news, little Marky had a “why” question or “what if” scenario. In my home, “Shut up Mark” became a common refrain shortly after the nightly TV news program started… Even as I grew older and my career and life progressed, my continual naive sociologizing remained a constant.
Besides studying sociology here at CUNY SPS, I plan to continue on to a graduate sociology or data science program and ultimately engage in social research using quantitative methods – hopefully leveraging my technology and design background.
