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  You have never worked outside of academia then? Give it a few years of real-world experience before making this judgment
context: You haven't actually gone through any significant advantages in this post. How long have you been graduated from your school? >
  
  I graduated in 2021 and at the least it helped me directly with getting into a top grad school in another country.  I know amongst my friends a lot of them were able to make connections in industries they were interested in because we had professors and other school staff who directly worked in those industries (like two professors of mine worked directly with famous country music artists, so that was great for people interested in that type of stuff) or knew people that did and so they were able to get good internships or student jobs and have a head-start after graduating.