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My college experience was unsettling. However, I couldn't quite grasp exactly why. I was recently reading Black Swan, a book by Nassim Taleb, on the impact of big, unexpected events and why we struggle to anticipate them. In one of his chapters, he describes a “Platonicity Problem,” describing an overly neat theoretical construct that we tend to create in our minds, and how the real world is more complex and random than we would like to believe. As a Marketing major, the theories we learned felt too neat. Everything sounds too simplified or unnecessarily complex. The steps and processes described as “the 5 steps of this” and “the 4 Ps of that,” and the almost religious script-like attitude towards them was unsettling. Of course, all descriptions of especially social science are oversimplifications, but what was uncomfortable was the education system’s unwillingness to challenge these ideas. It felt like there was a generation of brave thinkers who dared to question and define, then there is the rest of us who have to accept every word like it’s religion. It just didn’t feel like it represented the real world.