As a fresh, new grad student poised and ready for the launch of my first graduate school course, before any formalities or introductions were made, the very first question out of our professor’s mouth on the very first day of courses was this: Can people really change? Can people really change? How could he be asking us this?, I thought. I’d spent the last two years of my life preparing to begin graduate-level training for a career in the meaningful work of transforming human