-: Tremendously.
So, Virginia Tech, being a very prestigious institution,
gave me access to a lot of contacts,
and to a lot of
professionals in the field.
That's one.
Number two, it was also the mentoring
that I got from my professors and my advisors
here at Virginia Tech that, at the time, I had not
realized it, but had really trained me very well
to enter the workforce.
It's not particularly just classes.
It's interaction, it is the meetings,
it's the projects that we do.
It is the exposure that they've given us
to the corporate world and the working world
that I don't think I would have gotten from a classroom.