It&#x27;s completely true! I&#x27;m probably pretty good at programming because my father had connections to a gov&#x27;t lab and got me an internship. I also really wanted to get good at math... had my parents or myself known that most math professors&#x2F;grad students will talk to anyone about anything within their subject for as long as they&#x27;ll listen, they might&#x27;ve driven me to the local college and brought me to some prof&#x27;s office. Nobody I knew had any idea of that though! So yes it&#x27;s privilege to have all these connections... but even knowing you can just walk in and ask is a privilege. Privilege is really subtle.