"The more things change, the more they remain the same." Although this adage may apply to many aspects of politics, it certainly does not apply to the methodology used in studying this field. As a midcareer student returning to complete a Ph.D., two incidents brought the changes that have occurred in methodology to my immediate attention. First, I was not able to find one of my old research sources in the periodical section of the library. I soon discovered that the Midwest Journal of Political Science is now the American Journal of Political Science. Once I found the journal, I discovered that I could not understand at least one half of the articles in it. Fortunately, I was in a graduate program that required statistics courses and computerized data analysis for all students. After one statistics course and mastering the use of statistical packages for computers, a new approach to the study of politics became available to me.