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Students Have This Advantage | Bridger Pennington

12 Jan 2024 · 1 min

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This content was created by Bridger Pennington. This content was uploaded by Bridger Pennington. This is a YouTube video titled "Students Have This Advantage | Bridger Pennington" (posted 2024-01-12) featuring Bridger Pennington delivering advice to college students about networking and mentorship—encouraging students to leverage their status to approach professors, local CEOs, and other professionals for guidance and opportunities.

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When you're in college, everybody wants to help the college kid. Use that to your advantage. Professors, CEOs nearby. If you're just a regular Joe and you message them, hey, I want to come learn from you. They're like, screw you, dude, get out of here. But if you say, hey, I'm a college student at a local university, I'm a hustler, I'm working hard over here. Can I go to lunch with you? I have 15 minutes or whatever it is. I would go use professors that were really smart. I would go meet with local CEOs. They would return my DM on LinkedIn or message and I could hop on a phone call or talk to them and get advice. Because for whatever reason, people like to give advice to college kids. So, kids that are in college, my advice So, I'm going to