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Fingers Crossed

Facing the GRE for a Masters Degree: The Truth About Grad School

Fingers Crossed

Kristee Vetter & Sierra Green

Society & Culture, Personal Journals

4.7644 Ratings

🗓️ 30 March 2021

⏱️ ? minutes

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Summary

In this episode of Fingers Crossed, Kristee takes the reins to talk about everything Grad School.  She talks about her personal experience applying, taking the GRE, what made her select her school and program, and what her overall experience was like.  Kristee & Sierra also read lots of listener stories sharing unique grad school experiences from different people and programs, as well as share a myriad of advice on topics such as financial aid, when to apply, how to choose a program, and perhaps the most commonly asked: is it worth it!?!  Their thoughts on all this and more in this episode of Fingers Crossed. 

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey everybody, what's up, happy Tuesday, and welcome back to another episode of Fingers

0:13.7

crossed. We're so excited you're here with us today. I'm Sierra, one of your co-ho.

0:17.1

And I'm Christy. Oh, damn it. I thought I was going in at like the perfect timing and I cut you off as usual. Go on. I was normally don't say one of your co-I usually

0:25.5

sit the co-host part first and then my name. So you were you were right on. I just screwed you up.

0:29.6

But what would it, would it be a real. But what we're not making a fool out of today

0:39.7

is talking about grad school. Sometimes grad school makes a fool out of you, but that's what we're

0:44.1

here to talk about today. Queen of transitions. That was truly something I wouldn't have been

0:49.2

able to ever pull off in my lifetime. But yes, hopefully you don't make a fool out of yourself

0:53.9

in grad school like we make a fool out of yourself in grad school.

0:54.5

Like we make a fool of ourselves on this podcast every week. Right. Yeah, that's what we're talking about.

0:58.9

But we got lots of people telling us about the good, the bad and the ugly, the exciting, the expensive,

1:04.5

so many things, so many adjectives to describe what grad school is like. And we're very excited to talk to

1:09.7

you guys about that today. But before we get

1:11.0

into that, let's update, chat, talk about our week. Up in the date. We're going to up the date,

1:17.4

down the chat, all those good things. We're all over the place today. But yes, it has been another

1:23.6

week. Honestly, every time we sit down to record this, I just stop and thinking, like,

1:31.0

how has it been a week already? And how is it, like, what even happened this week and what's going on?

1:35.4

But, you know, that is life. We actually had this conversation the other day. Me and Sierra,

1:40.1

we're, like, talking on the phone and we're like, you know, isn't it just going to be like we wake up and we're 35?

1:45.6

And it's like the passage of time just doesn't happen anymore. Like as we get older, time goes by so fast. Like it's almost April of 2021. Like didn't New Year's just happen? Didn't March of 2020 just

1:52.2

happen? Like I'm so confused anyway. But that's- Who is folding the space time continuum and like

1:58.0

getting rid of time and bringing us up to the next year without.

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