Take My Sociology Class for Me — David Did Not Come This Far to Fail a Course About Human Behavior
David had studied three languages before he turned twenty-two. His first was Igbo, spoken at home in Lagos with his grandmother, who believed that a person who knew only one language knew only one world. His second was English, learned in school with the kind of deliberate focus that children apply to things that matter. His third was the informal language of survival — reading rooms, reading people, understanding what was expected of him in contexts that had not been designed with him in mind. He arrived in the United States in the spring of 2025 on a student visa, enrolled in a community college program with the goal of transferring to a four-year university within two years. His academic record in Nigeria was strong. His English was genuinely good. He had prepared for this more carefully than most people prepare for anything. What he had not prepared for was sociology. Not because sociology was beyond him — it was not. But because online sociology in 2026, as it turned out,...