Comment by bell-cot

You can study anything from accounting to zookeeping in college, and the real world will fall far short of the ideals ("best practices") you were taught.

What matters is that you learned a good amount of the reasoning behind those college ideals, and the real-world downsides to expect when they aren't met. Because in the real world, "how close to ideal is this solution?" is just another metric to be considered, in your searches for the least-bad real world solutions.