>> So I went to Pomona.
I graduated in 2014 with a degree in philosophy.
And of course there was always the problem that philosophy, you say you're majoring
in philosophy, people will have a very specific reaction.
They kind of go like, oh that's, especially now that I have a job and I say,
they ask me what I studied and I say philosophy.
And they go oh.
And I mean I knew that going in the reputation it had.
And so I was like okay, I feel like I'm learning a lot.
Especially because I think people have a little bit of misconception
about what academic philosophy is.
Academic philosophy, it's very rigorous.
It's very logic based.
And some of it is, you know, reading books and thinking about existence.
But that's actually a branch that's fallen out of favor in academia right now.
So what we did.
I had to do symbolic logic a lot.
And I decided, so I felt like I got absolutely a great education
when it came to critical thinking.
I find that useful every day in my daily life the way I think about things is very nuance.
And I owe that to my education because it meant getting shot down a lot.
Getting, you know, getting told that my ideas, my closely held convictions were wrong
and having to deal with a really well reasoned argument why they were wrong.
Which basically taught me that you either need to defend your views better or change them.
And so that, in my work environment, is helpful just in the social sense the fact
that I know how to be critical of myself.
I know how to see the nuances of different situations.