The most important class I ever took had no tests, no textbooks, and no lectures.
My Greek history professor didn’t care if you memorized the year Alexander crossed the Bosphorus.
He cared whether you understood why people did what they did — and whether you were willing to ask the same questions about yourself.
He was unorthodox. On a study abroad program, he dropped us on a mountain in Greece and told us to find our way home with no phones, no tech, no help.
Every three days a different student became responsible for the group.
We spent eight hours in museums where he’d hand you a room and five minutes and tell you to present its contents to the public.
But the thing that changed my life was the discourse.
Every few days, one of the 14 of us had to stand up and answer three questions for an hour, followed by 45 minutes of Q&A:
Who are you? How did you become who you are? What do you want to do with your life, and why?
The professor did it. The TA did it. We all did it. You had to defend your life out loud.
That’s where I built my career plan. Two years at Morgan Stanley. Three years teaching. Booth for an MBA. Then start a company in education. I sketched it out at 20 years old and I’m still on it.
That discourse was a simulation. A structured environment where we made decisions, defended our reasoning, and adapted when our peers pushed back. We weren’t memorizing history.
We were practicing how to think.
Most professors can’t do that — not because they don’t want to, but because they don’t have the time or scale to put 30 students through that kind of discourse.
That’s what we built at immersionED. Infinitely adaptive simulations where students reason through real decisions, defend their thinking, and adapt when the situation pushes back. Every student in the cohort, simultaneously.
Are you a professor like the one I had? We can bring your work to life at scale. Shoot me a DM and we’ll deploy a simulation for your curriculum in seven days.