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Episode Transcript

Kiera (00:00):
welcome back to Crisis with Kiera

Isis (00:03):
and isis.
You guys, that took us like six months.
All right.
So today we're talking about college.
Should you,

Kiera (00:12):
Ooh.
because it's coming up,it's it's coming close.
It's coming around the Bend.

Isis (00:16):
It's, it's, it's taken, it's taken away.
My endorphins already.
I can feel it just, it's like, a Dementor?
From Harry Potter?
Yeah.
I can feel it approaching.
I get shivers on my neck.
Yeah.

Kiera (00:28):
it's the Sunday of the year.
We are exiting Hot girl summer andgoing into, um, temperate non-binary
fall right before Cold Boy winter.

Isis (00:42):
Mm-hmm.
Mm.
But as much as we hate and dreadthe semester starting, we're
also really, really excited.

Kiera (00:49):
Well, I'm excited.
Okay.
Because I got into nursing schoollast semester, so this will be
my very first semester of nursingschool, which is very exciting.
And I feel like schoolactually now matters.

Isis (01:05):
.Yeah
it's serious now

Kiera (01:06):
for my first time ever.
Yeah.
And yeah, it's gonna beso new and fresh and good.
It honestly feels like it's going alittle bit back to like high school.
Mm-hmm.
How high school felt.
'cause I'm gonna have like thesame professors and there's
like 70 kids in the program.
Right.
That we all have the exact same classes.
Right.

(01:27):
Which I'm excited for.
'cause I think that is a muchbetter learning environment.

Isis (01:31):
Yeah.
I got a nice tight cohort.
Yeah, I like that.

Kiera (01:34):
And like, I feel like I'll, you know, I'll ha, I'll actually
probably build relationships with myprofessors, which I have not done at
all in my undergrad at this point.
So, And I guess for context, I'mgoing into my fourth year at U N R.
I know

Isis (01:53):
it's been that Long.

Kiera (01:54):
Yep.
I'm gonna, my fourth year at UN R and the nursing program is
like a part of my undergrad.

Isis (01:59):
Anyways, um, so with the semester beginning, what
are you like most excited for?
Like what about like thebeginning, the first two weeks?

Kiera (02:07):
This is the first semester where I'm excited about my academics.
Obviously I gave myself the first twoyears or three years really like two.
It's not that I wasn't focusing onmy academics, but I did give myself
a lot of room socially and like put alot of like space and time into that.

(02:31):
Um, but, but, so at this point, likewith my now developed repertoire of, of.
My social circle.
I guess it's like that is less likethat needs less time and investment now.
And maintenance.
Maintenance

Isis (02:51):
and watering.

Kiera (02:51):
Yeah, exactly.
I was literally thinking of a plantanalogy as well, like it's a flourishing
garden that is now like createdits own ecosystem that doesn't need

Isis (03:01):
you.

Kiera (03:01):
The hands of me medling with it.
My academic garden ever.

Isis (03:08):
It's a high desert.

Kiera (03:12):
It's got root rock.
It's like, it's the succulent.
It's not fruitful.

Isis (03:19):
Built on bedrock.

Kiera (03:22):
But me getting into nursing musical was like a literally
dead tree with like one spr.
I'm like, I'm like, there's some.

Isis (03:35):
You are like, gimme some fertilizer right now.

Kiera (03:36):
There's some growth on the end.
It's still alive.
Like I was like, this bitch is dead.
Like it went through the winterand it was like, this bitch is dead.
There's no way she was about to likeget the thrown out the back door.
No.

Isis (03:54):
When Kira was taking her nursing exam test, she was like, ah, uh.
And then she was like, there's thisperiod of time where she's like,
I don't know if I'm gonna get in.
I don't know if I deserve to get in.
And then when she got in she'slike, yeah, I did just enough.
And that's actually God exactly how Ifelt with my, me getting into my M B A.
Yeah.
I was like, 'cause my exam I to did.

(04:15):
Terrible on my gmat.

Kiera (04:16):
Well, I did great on my exams,

Isis (04:18):
right.
But I did O i, my G P Awas great and my GMA was

Kiera (04:22):
Oh, right.
My, and my G P A was terrible,but my test was great,

Isis (04:25):
right?
And I did my GMAT while I was in Europe.
Like I was traveling the, I did it ina, in a hotel room and someone like
interrupted me and the proctor waslike, you can't have people in the room.
And I'm like, it's the hotel staff.
Anyways.
But me getting in, like, I was like,okay, I did like just enough on the test.
Like thank God I didn't spendsix months over studying.
'cause then.
Same place.
Right?
You got in same place.

(04:46):
I got in.
And like that's a terrible way togo about things because up until you
get in, you're absolutely miserable.
Yeah.
And then if you don't get in,you're like, this is all my faults.

Kiera (04:54):
I'm a big ass failure.
There's real consequences.

Isis (04:58):
But when you do get in, you're validated.

Kiera (05:00):
Yes.
And you're like, I'm the smartest person.

Isis (05:06):
Yeah.
See, and I feel like I'ma little bit different.
I feel like because I hada very fruitful undergrad.
And now I am like, school isso not, also, I just don't care
about getting an A anymore.
Like I'm at that point where it'slike I just, whatever it may be.
Yeah.
And also it's just like hard.
Not once you, I feel you

Kiera (05:24):
into my going into a STEM major that goes out the window immediately.

Isis (05:27):
Right.
And like for me it's like, because Idon't really care about my grades anymore.
I'm very confident.
There's no way I'm not gonna pass a class.
Yeah.
I'm just there to be there.
So now it's like I get to reinvestin my garden of social life and I
get to like, now I'm like, how can Iutilize my energy in like doing things?

Kiera (05:44):
You know how
much I tell myself that like cum laudeor magna cum laude is fucking bullshit
and doesn't matter to like validateme never being close to getting it.
I'm like, nobody even cares.
It doesn't, it's so relevant.
No, I was, even though it is, Imean yeah, I'm sure you bring it up.

(06:08):
Once a year at Christmas in youradult life when you meet new people
and they're like, oh, good for you.
But I'm like, I don'tthink that's worth it.

Isis (06:18):
Well,
like I was just thinking aboutthat recently 'cause some student
asked me like, oh, is it hardto get on the Dean's list?
And I was like, nah, I'vebeen on the Dean's list.
And they're like, oh, likewhat does that do for you?
And I was like,
like I've, every time I've been onthe Dean's list, it was by accident.
Like I really wasn't trying like this,like not that I wasn't trying, but Right.

(06:39):
It wasn't like my old, likemy ultimate goal was obviously
not to get like D's, but

Kiera (06:43):
Right.
It's just like you happened to get intosome like kind of easy classes or good
professors and you're like, alright, yeah,

Isis (06:49):
I'll take it.
And then the other thing is like,the only time it really matters
is based upon your scholarships.
So I had scholarships thatrequired me to have like a three,
two or a higher or whatever.
But you kind of get to apoint where it's like, okay.
I can, that's fine.
Yeah, we're fine.
Anything higher than that is fine.
It's just a bonus.
It's just a bonus.
You're like, sure.
I'll take it.

(07:09):
But um, yeah, I don't know if the, Ialways tell this to like a lot of the
incoming freshmen that I'm talkingto, like your G p a really, really
matters if you care to go to med schoolor law school or whatever school.
And like, if you wanna go into like a veryniche like master's program at Harvard,
yes.

Kiera (07:27):
But even then, it's not even like about getting
into med school or law school.
It's about like which one?
Like there's gonna beones out there, there,

Isis (07:35):
university,
what is it?
Uh, where did better call sgo?
University of Samoa?
I think Yeah.
So yeah, you can, no matter whatyou wanna do, your G P A doesn't
matter unless you wanna do somethingspecific, then your G P A matters more.
But I always think like if you, ifit doesn't kill you, like try, but if
it's gonna kill you just, just float.

Kiera (07:58):
Yeah,
just float.
Also like, I just think college is so muchmore than your G P A than your education.

Isis (08:08):
Well, obviously we didn't care about our education as our
utmost important factor in life

Kiera (08:14):
Yeah.
When I guess my social lifewas a big priority for me.
Which I think was totally valid andlike made my life a lot more fulfilling.

Isis (08:26):
Yeah.
I feel like if you don't care aboutyour social life, there's pl plenty
of other schools to go to, especiallyif you're coming like outta state
or you're paying for like tuition.
Like I understand if you don't,if you're like instate and you are
limited to like, you know, two options.
But if you're coming from somewhereelse, like if your social life is
not important to you, you mightas well go to a cheaper school,
closer to home, whatever, whatever.

Kiera (08:47):
Yeah, definitely.
So it's like
education's important.
Yeah.
If you're going to like a big ass fouryear, like if you're paying for that,
like you're paying for the social life as
well

Isis (09:01):
and all the resources and other bullshit that there is.
Yeah.
But you know, you people don'tgo to U S C for their education.
They go to U S C for their network.
So U n R just, you know, wehave a different network.
A network of desert monkeys Yeah.
Yep.
Anyways, okay, so first week of school.

(09:22):
Welcome week.
What, what is your favoritewelcome week activity?

Kiera (09:26):
Ooh.
I don't know if reallyany of them are that cool.
Really?
What's like, oh, I mean, honestly probablylike either Club Fair or like Go Fest.

Isis (09:39):
Go Fest is a good,

Kiera (09:40):
like tabling at those for is
just

Isis (09:42):
Go Fest is the one with the pancakes, right?
The nighttime.
What's the breakfast for dinner?

Kiera (09:47):
Uh, Wolf it down.

Isis (09:48):
Wolf it down.
Like wolf it down too.

Kiera (09:49):
See, I wanna like that, but then you're just in a fucking
line for like forever 10 years.
And

Isis (09:54):
what was it?
If you bring your own plate,you get to cut the line.

Kiera (09:57):
Yeah.
Your, I do enjoy pancakes at midnight.
But it's just like not that serious.
I don't know.

Isis (10:05):
Yeah.
I
guess, um, I really want, do you knowwhich one I wanna like, but I don't.
When you paint the Nevada N Oh yeah.
That, I think everyonehas to do it one time.
I think you have to do it onetime and then just accept that.
Yeah.
It's something you do once.
Yeah.
Unless you like to hike in desert.
Yeah.
With paint.
I didn't, I didn't do it,
but yeah, it
was also covid.
I'm
feeling all right about

(10:26):
it.
Yeah.

Kiera (10:27):
I mean, I'm pretty sure
they still offered todo it, but I was like,
fuck that.
Yeah.
It's also really hot.
If I
wanna hike to the end, Ican do it on my own time.

Isis (10:36):
True.
It's also really hot whenlike the semester starts.
Yeah.
That's why I like the nighttime events.
'cause it's just so, like eventabling when it's hot, you're like,

Kiera (10:44):
also, I'm just excited.
For everyone to be back.
Like I'm just excitedto be back on campus.
Yeah.
And like that energy

Isis (10:54):
and just everyone's fresh and ready and happy.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And just like, you just likemiss everyone a little bit.
Mm-hmm.
And then like, again, like I wassaying this like, it's like this
is like the only semester where youreally like extra socialize, so this
is the only time you make new friends.
Really?
I feel like in the springthere's no new friends.

Kiera (11:09):
No.
Everybody's sad and depressand like, it's so cold.
Like, don't talk to me.
I don't wanna go out.
It's freezing.

Isis (11:14):
And then no one's happy until like dangers start, but dangers don't start
until the end of the semester anyway.
Yeah.
So fall as you were saying, superior

Kiera (11:22):
fall is the a hundred percent superior semester.
Yeah.
It's so good.

Isis (11:27):
And just everyone is just like, and also the weather's getting worse.
Yeah, which usually would make you moremiserable compared to like in the spring
where the weather's getting better,but when it's getting to its worst,
you're already kind of like winterbreak, leaving other things, and then
you're getting into the good holidays.
Yeah.
The Halloween, the Thanksgiving,the Christmas, when you come back
for spring, there's no holidays.

Kiera (11:48):
No, you're just miserable.

Isis (11:49):
You're just
cold.

Kiera (11:50):
Also, I feel like it's not as, also, I feel like,
which is all specific, our university,but for some getting colder, I
feel like there's more
like, Hmm, yeah.
Yep.
Mm-hmm.
Ooh.
Ah.
Like you can, you can really easily getexcited for all the cozy woes and you can

(12:10):
ski, even if it's not snowing outside orlike you can still like do, you can sit
like, but it's like OC october, November.
Um, the weather at that, like, onceyou make the decision that you're not
gonna be outside, then all, all ofyour indoor activities stay the same.
Whereas in the spring when it's gettingwarmer, you're like, okay, yeah.

(12:31):
Nice.
It's getting warmer.
First of all, it takes so long.
Like literally we were talking about,we went out at the end of the semester
in May and still it was like cold
and, which I feel like this semesterwas like a weird spring, but
always weird, bro.
Yeah.
Like, I don't know, it's justlike, not that it, it's not a
satisfying amount of change thathappens in the spring semester.

(12:51):
Yeah.
To where at the end you're like,
yes.
It's so weird.
Well, yeah, the other thing that's sucks
and then also you can't force theoutside, act like you can't Yeah.
Even though it's, yes, it'stechnically getting better.
You can go to like, and it's like
sunnier, you still can't go swimming.
Yeah.
No.
It's so too cold.
So it's like,

Isis (13:04):
and I, again, this is all like, you know, Contingent upon our
university, our geographical location.
But that's why fall is just awesome.
It's sweet, it's warm, it's beautiful.
And then like you get tosee ke campus trees die.
Mm.
And that's so much better thanwatching them grow back because
it's like,

Kiera (13:23):
I do like spring flowers.
I do like seeing all the flowersin bloom and that, uh, like two
weeks where everybody's like, God,these fucking flowers smell so bad.

Isis (13:33):
They do smell bad.
The cum flowers,

Kiera (13:35):
it's just so funny 'cause everybody talks about 'em for like two weeks.
They're just like,
whoa.

Isis (13:39):
Actually insane about how bad they smell.
Oh my god, those trees are wretched.
Yeah.
Like who?
That's like one of those things

Kiera (13:47):
they smell like humans, like in heat, which is

Isis (13:53):
disgusting.
They're like, whoever picked that.
Like, you know what it was, it waslike some guy had the choice to
pick something and his wife waslike, these ones are beautiful.
They did no research.
Yeah, no, they, on the allergens,
the smell,

Kiera (14:07):
they were put on everywhere.

Isis (14:10):
There's no way it's native.
It just can't be.
It's disgusting.
Yeah.
And it smells so much like spraying.

Kiera (14:16):
No, I think they're, but the worst way, because they're
easy because they were on myschool campus, like in high school,

Isis (14:21):
it's kinda like the red ones that have like the
little plums that grow on them.
Mm-hmm.
It's kinda like those,they're probably just easy.

Kiera (14:26):
There's just
probably governmentsanctioned available trees to
pick from.

Isis (14:31):
This one's within the us, the US Department of Agriculture budget.
Bro, that stuff smells terrible.
Um, but yeah, I also think like, eh,
oh, go ahead.
I mean, Halloween is just,
That's Kira.
That's actually Kira's holiday,but it's historically been
my favorite holiday as well.
I love Halloween and Halloween's just fun.

(14:51):
It is just so fun.
The only thing that sucks isit's cold and your hoe outfit.

Kiera (14:55):
It does as soon as literally
like as soon as Halloween is there.
It's October 29th and it's too hot.
Like you're still annoyedwhen you're going to bed at
night because you're too hot.
And then October 31st rollsaround and you're out.
Jade on the streets wearing notenough clothing and you're miserable.

Isis (15:14):
No, it's really hard because I've actually done that before where
I've bought like Halloween clothes forthe, like cold weather and then I've
done like Halloween parties the weekbefore Halloween, and they're too hot.
And then I go buy like a, uh, more,you know, sleuthy outfit and then
it's Halloween and I am freezing.

Kiera (15:34):
I'll say the good thing about like Halloween when you're
older, at least like in college orlike you're young adulthood like.
It doesn't, it's way less aboutOctober 31st because you Yeah, some,
because October 31st it can be like ona fucking Tuesday and it's like, no,
like you can't do anything about that.
And then also just like there's alwaysHalloween parties happening weeks before.

(15:55):
Yes.
So you do get a lot ofuse out of costumes.

Isis (15:58):
Also, we have Nevada Day and the Good Weather here.
We have Nevada Day and Nevada Day's.
What, the Monday beforeHalloween or the Monday after?
It's a Friday.
Oh, it's a Friday.
I think it's a Friday.
Is it like, it's like the 30th?
I don't know.
I've been living in the stateforever and I just dunno.
But Nevada Day always falls byHalloween, so you always have a long
weekend and it's just like, thank you.
Whoever came up with that shit.
It's a good one.
Yeah, that's the best day to have.

(16:19):
I don't know what dayHalloween on is a senior.
Is there a
California day?
No.
No.
There is not.
Check.
It'll also tell you when Nevada Day is.

Kiera (16:29):
Um,
It's on a Tuesday,
so I be that Monday we'd haveoff, let me double check.
Nevada.
Yeah, I don't know.
I don't have Nevada Day on here.

Isis (16:41):
Nevada Day is OCT Friday, October 27th.
Perfect.
So, yeah.
And then, yeah, we'll justnot do anything on Monday, but

Kiera (16:50):
it's like, but it's the spirit of Halloween that
gets you through the weather.

Isis (16:55):
Oh, definitely.
And because we keepelongating it every year.
Like for, sometimes it's like Hallaweekend and then it's halla week
and it's halla month, and then it'slike, it's September 30th and you're
dressed as a fucking pinging pong ball.
Always Halloween.
Think goof.
Okay.
But yeah, I'm excited.

(17:16):
I'm excited.
Yeah.
Just wanna,
um, what other things do you really like?
Do you, have you ever done the undies run?
Yeah.
Do you enjoy it?
Not really.
I feel
very vulnerable.
Yeah.
It, it's kind of weird.
I don't know.
I'm not really into it.
It's also, I don't know.

(17:36):
It's like not what you want it to be.
No,
no, it's not,
it, it's like exactly asuncomfortable as you would
expect.
Yeah.
People who are really into it.
I, I, I think you have to reallyenjoy running to really be into
it in the first place, I guess.
And then you have to enjoy beingnaked to then really enjoy it on top

(17:57):
of that, but then it's like cold.
It's never hot.
'cause at night, yeah.
I don't know.
Running in my underwear at night is,

Kiera (18:07):
there's something about it being school sanctioned that makes it weird.
Like

Isis (18:12):
if

Kiera (18:12):
it was.
If like a fraternity put it on.
Yeah.
You know what I mean?
Like it's like just a groupof like your friends that were
like, let's just run this in ourunderwear to this in our underwear.
That would be much more fun.
But

Isis (18:25):
tell me about the school sanction part.
Because it like makes

Kiera (18:28):
it, because if it's not, like, if it's not school sanctioned
and it's like on school campusor like whatever, then it's like
you're kind of doing something bad.
But then when the school islike, you're going to do this,
but it like takes all the

Isis (18:43):
like, you're gonna take your clothes off in the quad.
Well that's like what makesa Mackey sacrifice so good.
It's not school sanction.
Exactly.
Exactly.
The school doesn't stop us fromdoing it, but it's not like, they're
not like, bring your off whole

Kiera (18:54):
bottle.
It's ours.
You know?
It's ours and like we,

Isis (18:58):
we are choosing to keep this alive.

Kiera (18:59):
Yeah.
And own's not that, it's just weird, bro.
Yeah.

Isis (19:03):
But yeah.
Moving on.
Should you go to college?
You wanna break downthis diagram for Akira?

Kiera (19:10):
Yes.

Isis (19:13):
Do,

Kiera (19:14):
should you go to college?
Yes or no?
let's take a little look, see into thefuture and see what changes your mind.

Isis (19:27):
Yeah.
I'm tired of the fuck collegerhetoric that's going around.
I mean,

Kiera (19:33):
but still like the vast majority.
I feel like if people are going tocollege, I really don't need, I feel like
we need to say go to college that much.
If anything, I honestly might stillbe in the other boat of like, we
need more people in the trades

Isis (19:49):
personally.
Like we need more peoplein the toaster factory.
We need toaster factories.

Kiera (19:53):
So don't let us discourage you from not going to college.
We need our toasters to be alittle bit more affordable.
We just went to college, so we obviouslyhave to make fun of the, uh, ladder.

Isis (20:04):
Yeah, don't worry.
Uh, we said if you go tocollege, you'll have money.
Money, babes,

Kiera (20:11):
bottles, bros.
Bros.

Isis (20:13):
And I will say that we do have Babes, bros.
And bottles.
However, money is still education.
Oh, I forgot about that.
Zero money pending.
This one's pending.
This is like, it's like when you put moneyin, like when you give someone money,
they're like, oh, can I borrow 20 bucks?
And you're like, yeah.
And then they give it back to you.
It's like your money's on vacation.
My money's currently on vacation.
Yeah.
Yeah,

Kiera (20:33):
yeah.

Isis (20:35):
And.
And hopefully I make moremoney than the toaster factory.
Yeah.
That's the goal.
So

Kiera (20:42):
yeah, you're definitely gonna be in the brokest years of your life.
Mm-hmm.

Isis (20:47):
Mm-hmm.
But

Kiera (20:48):
the whole time you're like, hopefully in a few years I will be not
broke unless you pick by any means.
And then once you accept that, thenthere is something kind of like, not like
romantic about being joy broke, joyful.
It's like, but there's somethingromantic about being broke in the sense
of like, I just watched this videoonce about like cooking in college.

(21:12):
Mm-hmm.
And she was just like, at the end ofit, it's just like all very simple.
And she said there's something like,there's something like beautiful
about like the simplicity 'causeof the lack of resources you have.
Right.
So it's like when you have such.
A small amount of things to work with.
Mm-hmm.
Like you, you know, you get more creative.
Yeah.
And the things that you like discoverwithin this small, like boundaries is

Isis (21:36):
really cool.
Right.
Because creativity doesn't comefrom having unlimited, it actually
comes from having nothing.
Mm-hmm.
Yeah, I was gonna say, beingbroken, college is like one
character dev developing two,it's also like, so temporary.
Like, even if it doesn't feeltemporary in the moment, like,
you know, you're not gonna be, youdidn't come here to be broke forever.
So it's like, do you just acceptit and it just like washes over

(21:56):
you and you're like, okay, I canenjoy being at least somewhat broke.
And then you just likechange things that you do.
Like I used to get my nails doneall the time and I stopped getting
my nails done all the time.
And now I just like, it's so weird.
But like, it's not that I don't valueit, but it's just like, Different.
And like same thing withlike the food that I buy.
Like I got so creative with how Icooked and like the things that I
would buy and how I valued money.

(22:18):
Like going to Sephora, I used tolike go and buy like a bunch of
bullshit and I used to have so muchmakeup that I didn't wear at all.
Mm-hmm.
And like now I've got like onemascara, one eyebrow pencil.
Yep.
Yep.
One chap.

Kiera (22:28):
It makes you more intentional about what you're buying.
It makes you value your shit more.
Yep.
And it's just like, yeah, exactly.
So I think it is like, and it'ssuch a, it is such a short amount of
time in your life in the long run.
Yes.
so that's how I keep positive about it.
And then living

Isis (22:44):
below your means while you're broke or living at your
means while you're broke, is wayeasier than when you're not broke.
You're not like, like if you gofrom high school where you probably,
so for example, if you have a goodjob in high school, you're making
like, what, 15 to $18 an hour?
Which is more than what any fuckingcollege student makes, probably for
the most part because they just won'trefuse to pay us anything other than 12.
And so then you're like, okay, okay.

(23:06):
You make that much in high school.
You stay at that.
You maybe get to like 23 if you don'tgo to college, which is still making
more than I'm making right now.
But then finally when I graduate,I'm making so much, but then that's
like my value for money has increasedbecause I've been so depleted, right?
So then I'm like, what do Ido with all this money, right?

(23:27):
Compared to if I like stayed withmaking good money in high school
and just continued with like that.
You know diagonal

Kiera (23:33):
ways.
Yeah.
And then God forbid you everlike then decide to go to
college, then you're miserable.
Right.
Going from low to high is a loteasier and more fun than going from

Isis (23:45):
something to happening high to low.
Well yeah.
That's why like in the master's program,you either see students like directly out
of their undergrad or you see people thatare like 10 plus years in their career.
Mm-hmm.
Because it's like how do you go, howdo you go back to making no money right
after you've made money for two years?
Like you cannot.
So it's like now I've gotta make somuch money to where I don't have to
make money for two years and it's notkilling me or my family or my wellbeing.

(24:08):
Anyways, toaster factory though.
Go to it.

Kiera (24:12):
Alright, well no college.
No.
Alright, then that means dinging,dinging, dinging, toaster factory.
We need 'em.
That's all I have to say.
All that's looking good.
Yes.
Toast in here.

(24:33):
Bottles, baby mama drama, all fun things.
Take that with what you will.
Unlimited toast, positives andnegatives across the board.

Isis (24:48):
Probably making more money per hour than this guy right here.

Kiera (24:52):
Yep.
I should have put like brokenback somewhere in there.
Workman's comp, because that's alsoa reality unemployment question mark.
Anyways, anyways, that's not looking good.
This all's not lookingreal juicy and tasty.
All right.
No.
Alright.

(25:13):
Teen pregnancy.

Isis (25:18):
Um, also a teen pregnancy.
I promise.
I, I feel like if I pulled up my Instagramright now and I went through my following
and who went to college and who didn't goto college, a mass majority of people who
did not go to college now have children.
Yeah.

Kiera (25:33):
Maybe not while they're teens.
Some of 'em, I

Isis (25:36):
feel like enough of 'em, uh, enough of 'em.
We're just out of the teens,

Kiera (25:40):
so, but yeah, I would say before the age of 22, so many,

Isis (25:46):
most say is,

Kiera (25:48):
That's a path.

Isis (25:49):
That's a path.
That's a path.
Someone's gotta do it, it's different.
But if that's not the path you'relooking at, it probably comes with

Kiera (25:56):
its own benefits and challenges.
And there's not necessarily,

Isis (26:02):
it's just not the bottles I want.
It's not what I want.
Sounds fun.

Kiera (26:10):
Kids are cute.
Babies are cool.
Your body's probablygonna snap right back.

Isis (26:16):
Yep.
Mm.
Mm-hmm.
you get to grow old with your kid.

Kiera (26:22):
Yeah.
Have that think that's fun.
Or, or, and you can be a young grandma.
That's fun.
That is

Isis (26:28):
fun.
You could probably get morekids in than we'll be able to.
Like, if you start at like, you know,

Kiera (26:34):
19, how many, what do you, how many do you want?
Fucking

Isis (26:36):
10, 4, 5.
But it's much harder if you startat 30 compared to you start at 20.
You could have one every two years andbefore you're 30, have four to six kids.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
If I start at 30, I can only get

Kiera (26:52):
like three of them.
Yeah.
You have a lot more flexibilityof, but also, but also I feel
like I don't, I don't, it's notnecessarily how long you have, I,
I think about it as like a window.
'cause even if I had start at 20,I don't wanna continue having kids.
I don't wanna have a baby at 32.
Right.
When I've had a baby at 20.

(27:12):
Right.
Like I don't need 12 years of babies.
Right.
Because once you have like having onehowever many, however many years apart
or not, like you're just starting over.
Right.

Isis (27:23):
Yeah.
I also think like the otherthing with like babies.
That's

Kiera (27:26):
great.
I want like an eight yearwindow and that's it.
Just eight years and you're done.
Yeah.
Well, yeah.
Are you kidding me?
Well, yeah.
'cause I don't have reason.
That's reason forever.
That's all I

Isis (27:35):
need.
Well, also the other thing is ifyou have babies when you're broke or
when you're young, you're only gonnabe able to provide a better quality
of life probably as they get older.
As for like me, since I'm alreadybroke, like I cannot start having
babies until I'm no longer broke,because I might as well have just
had a kid at 18 at that point.
Right.
So now it's like, I need, if I don't,if I can get an educational trust fund

(27:55):
going, what am I having a kid for?
Had

Kiera (27:57):
about 18.
We've talked about this, but like,I cannot, I can get pregnant.
I gra I'm graduating next fall,so like I can get pregnant the
earliest of, I think February.
Mm-hmm.
Or March.
February, March, April.
This is the earliest I could get pregnant.
'cause literally if I got pregnantanytime before that, like you said,

(28:21):
I might as well have gotten pregnantat 18 and just skip the whole Yeah.

Isis (28:29):
You just waste money.
Yeah.
Yeah.
It's like after that degreeis like step one and then

Kiera (28:34):
yeah, skip the whole degrading quality of life for four years.

Isis (28:38):
Yeah.
But yeah, so go to college.
Moving on or don't, don't
fuck.
I'm really not tryingto be judgmental here.

Kiera (28:50):
Oh, that was so good.
Anyways.
Alright.
Should we just do a quick rap, ski obsski with little tips and tricks of shit
we've learned by being in the trenches.

Isis (29:02):
Yeah.
For the freshman freshies coming in.
Um, okay.
Starting from where to fucking live.
Live on campus.
Stay in the dorms.
You're not too cool for it.
It sucks for everybody.
It's like a road trip for 15 hours sucks.
But it's cool if youmake the most out of it.
Yeah.
That's

Kiera (29:20):
my dorm trip.
I don't see, I don't know.
I'm one of those like nerds thatwould like be so probably excited
to like live in the dorms and Yeah.
And hear people complain about it.
I'm like, Oh,

Isis (29:32):
well you didn't get to 'cause of Covid, but so many students are like,
no, I would've been more than happy to.
Yeah.
Like so many students that I,that I negative, Nancy's bad, bro.
They're like, I, my mom'smaking me live in the dorm.
It's like, I'm like, bro,it only happens once.

Kiera (29:46):
Yeah.
In your entire life.
Are you gonna live in a fuckingzoo of people your same age
with no parental supervision?
Never, never.

Isis (29:56):
Unless you join the military, which hopefully back to the toaster factory,
you shouldn't have started college.
But like, it's just once,like, it's literally once,
just do it once and then you

Kiera (30:09):
never do it.
And it such a short amount of time.
I get it, like 18, it feelslike a really long time, but
it's so, it's so short and you

Isis (30:15):
can, it could be so fun if you force it to be.
Yeah, I mean it can also suck, but part,it probably will, it naturally sucks.
You're sharing a small space,

Kiera (30:23):
but parts, but people, parts suck, but everybody's in the suck and it's like,

Isis (30:26):
yeah, either you just shit sit there and be like, sad that you're
in the shit or you all just rejoicethat you're in the shit together.
Um, and you don't have to cook.
Speaking of consumption, oh

Kiera (30:38):
yeah, that was, I didn't have a choice to not live in the dorms.
I was forced out because of c o d, but.
But being a freshman andfeeding yourself, it's hard.

Isis (30:52):
And it sucks both ways.
'cause either you feed yourselflike the dining, common food, which
sucks, or you don't feed yourself thedining common food, which also sucks.
So you're just, it all sucks.
So just make the most of the suckiness.
Yeah.

Kiera (31:04):
Yeah.
I mean, I did fine.
Whatever.
Learned a lot.
Yeah.
But anyways, other

Isis (31:10):
things come to college.
Single please.
For your sake.
Her sake.
His sake.
Everyone's sake, your roommate's sake.
Nobody wants to hear about it.
Just start fresh.
It's just, 'cause what happens is it'slike October and people are in the
hallways and they're like, listen babe.
And it's just like, and you're like, Ifucking told you to break up in August.

(31:32):
So, yeah.
Shout out to all my high schoolsweethearts that are getting married.
I love you guys too.
You're not the norm.
Most people need to break up.
That's an exception.
They're so far.
And few

Kiera (31:41):
plus, like it is great.
Obviously if you make it with yourhigh school sweetheart, like hoorah.
it's not like you still wouldn'tget like something out of being
single, you know what I mean?

Isis (31:54):
either one's a win, but the win, right.
To try to make your highschool relationship work is
a really, you're definitely

Kiera (32:01):
not gonna be losing if you're just like,

Isis (32:04):
if it doesn't work, yeah.
There's no L there most likely.
Um, also it's just like, Yeah.
People use their, like living closeto home, they use as a crutch.
Their relationship they use as a crutch,their best friend that they're living
with in the dorms they use as a crutch.
And all these crutches make itto where you do not have like the
most fulfilling college experience.
And so it's not that we hate yourboyfriend or your girlfriend, it's,

(32:26):
we hate how people act when they'refreshmen with boyfriends and girlfriends.
Plus it's like you,

Kiera (32:31):
oh.
It's such like a uniqueopportunity of like just so
much freedom across the board.
And like you might as well startoff free in like every aspect Yeah.
Of your life.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And like a significant other is a hugepart that is, well, especially if you

Isis (32:53):
live different places.
You know how hard it is to callanyone every day at five o'clock
when you have class and a social lifeand roommates and it's just, ugh.
I just, because even when I was anra, which mind you I hated, but like I
think back to it, I'm like, this is bad.
So bad.
Don't do it.
It's something I really don'tlike, which makes me sad.

(33:14):
But wait,

Kiera (33:17):
being an

Isis (33:17):
ra, well, I didn't like being an ra, but also I didn't like, I just
like just freshman relationships.
Oh.
Seeing them as an ra.
Just seeing them.
Yeah.
As an RA spec.
'cause I had to live with them.
Yeah.
And I was like, this is, uh, yeah.
Yeah.

Kiera (33:33):
Focus on friends.
Friends.

Isis (33:35):
Not boyfriends.
Not boyfriends.
Not girlfriends or girlfriends.
None of that.
None of that.
Zero garbage.
I know.
You're gonna feel like needy andyou're gonna want it and you're
gonna be like, it's so cuteand he's so hot and it's, yeah.
Nah,

Kiera (33:45):
go cuddle with your roommate.

Isis (33:47):
Yeah.
No.
Try to be single for at least.
18 months.
18 months.
Give it 18 months.

Kiera (33:56):
You're not gonna make it 18 months.
I'll tell you right now.
That is a good girl.

Isis (34:02):
Try.
That's, that's the best thing you can do.
Um, and then also say hi.
I think the biggest social tip Ihave, if you're gonna single or
not single, whatever you wannado, cute or ugly, doesn't matter.
Say hi to everybody.
And like, what I mean by that islike, say hi to your neighbors.
Say hi to kids sittingnext to you in class.
Say hi to everybody forlike that first few days.

(34:25):
Because otherwise it's like month three.
You're walking through thehallway, you see each other
every Tuesday at nine o'clock.
'cause you're walking toclass and you don't say hi.
And now it's just awkward forever.
And you just should have broke the ice.
So just say hi to

Kiera (34:37):
people.
Sorry, go ahead.
To go back to this also justin like the mental clarity of
breaking up with who you're datingin high school before college.
It's like, You can always,
always get back together if, if it'smeant to be, you'll find your way back.

(35:06):
That's And if it's notmeant to be, you're welcome.
You won't.
No, definitely.
And you're not gonna wasteyour first two years of college

Isis (35:18):
arguing over text and FaceTiming at 9:00 PM and not going
out 'cause you have a FaceTime date.
Oh.
Um, Cool.
No back to school shopping.
Please don't do it for yoursake, for your parents' sake.
Buy clothes once you get here.

(35:41):
Yeah.

Kiera (35:42):
Because you're gonna pick because of climate and style and region.
Yeah.
Everybody else is wearing whatpeople were wearing like, for
example, but pedagogy, the universityin Nevada is not a bad choice.

Isis (35:57):
Right?
But if you go back to schoolshopping in uh, San Diego, that
just might not be your thing.
So my point is, is don't dothat Same thing with the shoes.
You're gonna buy shoes and then you showup and be like, wait, I want those shoes.
And it's just, just don't do it.
Just wait until you get here.
'cause then also, instead of spendinga bunch of money at once, if you
just split it up over like the, thesemester, like three times a semester

(36:17):
you shop, you're gonna be way betteroff in Halloween and you're gonna
be way better off in the winter.
Yeah.
If you try to buy your winterclothes in August, you're gonna hate
your winter clothes come winter.
And you also might be 15pounds fatter by then, so just

Kiera (36:29):
don't do it.
Yeah.
I mean it always takes trialand error that I mean, but

Isis (36:33):
Yeah.
But yeah.
I just hate back to

Kiera (36:35):
school shopping for policy.
I err on the side of just

Isis (36:37):
like, well, 'cause yeah, also like notebooks, pencils take a deep breath.
You literally don't know what you need.
Like everyone, like people will buylike all their textbooks and then
come to find out you don't need them.
Yeah.
So it's like, just don't buyanything until you're literally here.
Week two is the best time to go shopping.
Yeah.

Kiera (36:53):
Yeah.
Plus for stuff like your test textbooksand stuff, even if you do need them,
you don't need them until your professoris there to be like, you need this.
Yeah.
You won't use it today.
'cause I know half ofyou, I don't have it yet.
So, and it gives you plenty of

Isis (37:08):
time then.
And then by then you'll be like, Ooh.
'cause you might buy it andthen you'll be like, wait, I
could have bought it on my iPad.
Or Oh, I could have readand just don't buy anything.
Just garbage.
Same thing when they're like,oh, you need to have like three
of these tests, Scantrons.
And then you buy them by the timethe exam comes up, those Scantrons
have been lost in the wind.

Kiera (37:25):
Yeah.
Or maybe you'll end up sittingnext to someone who's retaken
this class three times and they'llbe like, You don't need it.
Hey, back.
Cool.
Like, I

Isis (37:36):
trust you.
Third timer and you're like,maybe that's what's missing.
Um, yeah.
I won't, I think the other thing we'retalking about was like definitely,
uh, checking out the geography.
If you're switching geographicallocations for your school.
Yeah.
Whatever that means foryou guys from coming

Kiera (37:56):
from coming.
I, okay.
Well first of all,California has dry heat.
It's not a humid place, it'snot known for its humidity.
It's still a relatively dry heat.
Yes.
So I was like going to the desert.
I was like, how different could it be

Isis (38:13):
California drought versus Nevada

Kiera (38:15):
High desert?
I never, yeah.
So going from California to U N R, um, Istarted using lotion for the first time.
I swear to God, for thefirst time my entire life.
Which you should do anyways.
Even if you live in a moist climate,

Isis (38:33):
even if you live in Florida, you should put lotion on.
But that's not the point.
Yeah.
But that's not the point.

Kiera (38:36):
They're learning.
I actually like needed it.
I was like, uh, what's happening to me?
Um, god damn.
Um, I got a humidifier.
Mm-hmm.
My poor sinuses could not take it.
Mm-hmm.

(38:56):
Humidifier, lotion and then like,you know, dealing with the snow.
That's its own whole like

Isis (39:04):
learning curve.
You're like, oh, I can drive in the snow.
No you can't.
No

Kiera (39:07):
you can't.
No you can't.
My dad made me practice putting onchains, which came in very handy.
And how many girlfriends have calledme and been like, I'm in the snow
and I dunno how to put on my chains.

Isis (39:22):
It's depressing.
But seriously, um,snowboarding, you think?
I was ever gonna snowboard.
I could never have imagined that.
And now I'm open to shred anytime.

Kiera (39:33):
True.
I mean, I skied a little bitbefore coming here, but not really.
But now it's like, well, I'm,I don't, it's not, we're not
even like anything special.

Isis (39:42):
Oh, that's the other thing.
You don't have to be good.
No.
Any bit.
Just go, just go.
Like there's, it's, it's right there.
If you live at the beach.
Yeah.
Start to surf.
Do beachy things.
Snorkel.
Take a scuba class.
I don't know.
Learn to sail.
But my point is, is definitelycheck out the geography.
Yeah.
Um, go to lake.
Go do things.
If you live somewhere realredneck, go do redneck shit.

(40:06):
If you live somewhere realpreppy, go do preppy shit.
Do you think I golfeduntil I came to college?

Kiera (40:11):
Get a mullet, get a bull cart.
I dunno.

Isis (40:16):
Buy a cart, a bracelet, whatever you need to do to fit in.
But um, definitely getting thoselike XP unique to your area
in is definitely important.
Also, like, even

Kiera (40:26):
if obviously like, you know, you're getting a little bit older,
you're like, I need to be my ownindividual person, you know, which
you have those like compulsionsto like do, which happens, but.
But don't get me wrong, whatever.
Like the culture stand, like whateverculture stands out at your university.

(40:46):
Definitely just like fucking gofor it for like a little bit.
Yeah.

Isis (40:50):
Dabble.
Just to like do it.
I didn't listen to country music.
Right.
I do now.
Right.
I didn't know to count cowboy

Kiera (40:55):
that, but a little bit.
It's not like I it's not like youlost any of your individuality.
No.
Or like it's not, and it's not likeyou only listen to country music now.
No.
But you just do a little like sprinkle in.
There's a

Isis (41:05):
fun scene.
I tried some dip one time andI was like, this is, this sucks

Kiera (41:09):
po not for me.
But you tried it, you know,just the, the old college tribe.
No, it's

Isis (41:16):
it experimentation.
Speaking on experimentation.
No pills, no powder.
Absolutely none of that.
None of that.

Kiera (41:26):
Zero.
Not speaking from experience, speaking

Isis (41:30):
from witnessing bad experience.
Yeah.
Just don't do it.
It's not worth it.

Kiera (41:34):
I feel grateful that I'm not speaking from

Isis (41:36):
experience.
Yeah.
Once you get to this point,you're like, thank God.
Because then you meet, you like seepeople that you saw your freshman
year and you're like, and then you'relike, well, what happened to you?
And they're like, oh, I've gota hole in my sinus that goes
to my brain because too much.
And you're like, Ooh.
Same thing with alcohol.
Alcohol.
Like alcoholism is a real thing.
People do end up with alcoholaddiction coming to college.

(41:58):
Um, I'm not saying drink to yourheart's desire, I'm just saying
specifically if I had to picksomething that you shouldn't do.

Kiera (42:04):
Bills and power.
Yeah.
Don't give that the college try.

Isis (42:07):
Yeah.
None of that.
You know, culture.
Go for it.
Besides

Kiera (42:12):
drug culture.
Yeah,

Isis (42:13):
moving on.
Um, you're gonna do somehanky panky potentially.

Kiera (42:19):
Oh my God,
this, her nurse brain isliterally insane to me.
Just get tested.
I, I am sure your campus, you'repaying for a clinic at here.
You get one free s cd test every semester.

(42:41):
At least go once.
Here's the rules, and youreally should take advantage
of that every semester, bro.
It doesn't even matter.
Like why not?
It can't hurt at.
Oh, even if you'refreaking abstinent and like

Isis (42:58):
even

Kiera (42:58):
if you're abst go pissing, a cop just once know maybe you borrowed like,
you know the May maybe maybe you wore onswimsuit, maybe you wore some swimsuit.
Who knows?
Sound a weird toilet.
So you dunno what's going on.
Can't hurt, it's free.
Get in there, get outtathere, takes 10 minutes.
You are gonna feel so muchmore at peace of mind.
Also, also, if you don't feel,it's hard to know, but I'm really

(43:21):
speaking to the guys right now.
Yeah,

Isis (43:23):
it goes always, but okay, this is the thing.
Here's the rules.
Every time you have a newsexual partner, you get tested.
The reason this is importantis because university students
have some of the highest

Kiera (43:37):
and old folks homes.
Yeah.
Have

Isis (43:39):
the highest levels of sexually transmitted diseases.
And that's because we'relike, well I don't have one
so she's not gonna have one.
So we're gonna canoodle andwhy would we have an s t D?
But really.
She has one because he had oneand no one got tested and now
everyone in the dorm has chlamydia.
Yeah.
And the symptoms are

Kiera (43:57):
weird and you're like, I probably just have a yeast
infection, blah, blah, blah, or U T I

Isis (44:03):
or you don't know most, a lot of times you're like, oh, just maybe just
should change my underwear yesterday.

Kiera (44:09):
I mean, you know, STDs come with, you know, they can come with
irreversible damage in your body andyour reproductive system as well as
cause some very awkward interactions.

Isis (44:22):
Yeah.
That part, um, you know what's worse.
Okay.
So, okay.
You have sex with someone, you getan S T D test, you have an S T D.
You're like, damn.
All right, take your medicine.
Right.
The alternative option to thatis you have sex with someone.
You don't get an S T D test,you have sex with someone else.
They do an S T D test.

(44:43):
They're like, damn, you gave me chlamydia.
Now they're telling everyone that yougave them chlamydia, they're pissed
off and all you had to do to stopall of that was get an s st D test.
Just

Kiera (44:52):
get your little boning in the clinic.
Just piss in a cup just real quick.
Um, like I said, for just like here,it's, you get a free one every semester.
So if that's what you're willingto commit to, then keep the
sexual partners one a semester orgo back to the Tried and trues.

Isis (45:13):
Yeah.
Condoms use them.

Kiera (45:15):
It's

Isis (45:16):
also fair to ask someone even that's not, like if, have you had an s t d test?

Kiera (45:21):
Yeah.
If you're not ready to talkabout it, you shouldn't do it.
but that's actually so awkward to ask.
Yeah.

Isis (45:32):
Well, it's, it's more like you're like, well, okay, this is the,
either they ask you or you ask them.
So I'd rather ask,

Kiera (45:39):
but it's much easier if you've just gotten, or if you get
tested regularly and you're like,I just got tested, I'm good to go.
I'd like to not fuck up my record.
How about you try

Isis (45:50):
that?
Yeah.
Oh, the same thing.
People are like, oh, askingfor consent is awkward.
You know?
It's more awkward.

Kiera (45:58):
The alternative Title ix.
Yeah.

Isis (46:00):
Title i's real awkward.

Kiera (46:01):
it just sucks for women because like guys are much more likely to
go without like symptoms and justbe super spreaders and, but it'll
do reproductive harm for men andwomen and, and especially the longer
that shit doesn't get checked out.
And so, yeah, even if you are symptomlessas a man, it doesn't mean that it's not

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doing irreversible damage on your body.
And the longer.
You have it the like exponentiallyworse it is on your body.
Yeah.
Just get

Isis (46:34):
tested please.
Yeah.
There's like no l you literally

Kiera (46:38):
just gotta pee in a cup.
Yeah.
You're giving him away that for freeall the time right into your toilet.
And one of those peas could

Isis (46:44):
save you life or at least allow you to have children one day or at least avoid
awkward, confrontational conversations.
Yeah.
And just keep you nice and

Kiera (46:52):
feeling good.
Yeah.

Isis (46:55):
Moving on.
Um, what was that other thing?
Oh,

Kiera (47:01):
super gonorrhea, electrolytes is real and terrifying.
Also big epiphany moment for mein college it was pickle juice.

Isis (47:13):
There's this one time Kira and I went out one night.
I did not know where Kira went.
I was like, where, where is my friend?
and I was, or Kira, I woke up andKira was at my house and she was
real tossed up the night before.
So I woke up and I was like,oh my God, where is she?
Did she's, because I lost herthe night before, so I was
like, have I lost her again?
And I'm like looking, and I run upstairsand I go to the kitchen and she's

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sitting on the floor, literally likeholding onto a jar of pickle juice.
Like her life depends on it.
She's like in the fridge,

Kiera (47:46):
like I'm dead.
I literally woke up, oh, and I,this room was in like the downstairs
and the kitchen was upstairs and Ilike crawl, like I like feel, and
like crawl my way up those stairs.

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Looking for any sustenance.
And I open the fridge and I seea jar of pickles with like three
little like snack 'em and it,and I was like, that's the one.
And at first I was like, I'm justgoing to eat these three pickles

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and I eat the three pickles.
And already like as soon as thepickle, you know, the juice,
that's like on the pickle.
Drip down your, it's my, it's my, my lips.
Like something like a light switch justlike goes on in my, like the tiniest

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flicker of life goes off in my brain.
And I knew in that moment thatI was doing something right.
And so I eat the three pickles andthen I just got the jar of juice
and I'm looking at it, and like Isaid, there was no coherent thoughts

(49:15):
going through my brain at this point.
It is all just lizard instinct happening.
And all I knew is that after thosethree little snack gums, there was like
three more flickers of life going on.
So I took a good look at thatpickle juice, and I took a sip.

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And I knew that I was heading into thelight into the promised land, so then
I finished that entire jar of picklejuice and I've never felt better.
I have never been resurrectedso quickly in my entire life.

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Oh, oh my

Isis (49:59):
God.
Yeah.
Electrolytes as a whole, I was gonna say,everyone's like, oh, I'm getting sick.
I need vitamin C.
And it's like, no, no, no, no.
It's not gonna fix yoursick, but you know what?
It will fix your hangover.
Pedialyte, whatever you want,whatever your choices, like

Kiera (50:13):
water does, it doesn't matter how much water you drink, it doesn't, no.
No, your body can't like absorb it likethe same way because it's not, it's not
the, it's like, and also like you're,yes, you're, yes you are like depleted
in fluids and water, but you're depletedin so many minerals and you're poison.

Isis (50:32):
Alcohol is literally, you're just self poisoning yourself.
Like that's literally like you'repoisoning yourself to an a degree
in which you're satisfied with.
And being poisoned obviouslyis like not good for you.
Like you're harming yourself in multiple

Kiera (50:47):
factors.
Well, but it turns off.
Your A D H, your antidiuretic hormone.
And so it just makes you notonly, yes, pee a lot, but also
like normally your body regulateshow many salts you're peeing out.
Mm-hmm.
And all of that shuts off.
So yes, like you're peeing more liquidout, but you're also peeing all the things

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that normally like your body would holdon to, to keep you happy and healthy.
And all of your salts and vitaminsare just going down the drain.
I wonder if

Isis (51:16):
you do pickle backs.
If that would kind of counteract,I'll drink because I like

Kiera (51:21):
a pickle back.
I'll drink.
Yeah, no, definitely.
I mean not, it would definitelyset you way better off than not.
I'll drink, like I'll drinkelectrolytes like before.
Yeah.
You always, or in the middle or after?
All the time.
All the time.
But I have definitely felt, I havefelt Satan himself crawl outta me.

Isis (51:42):
I literally am insanely impressed with how, during your
undergrad, especially that earlyundergrad, how easy it is to drink
and then be functioning the next day
Well, it's

Kiera (51:50):
not even that.
I don't know, it's either likeyour spirit or like, I think it
has to do with like the spirit.
Like you just have the spirit tolike put up with that bullshit.
Mm.
Like I just think like we refusenow to deal with that bullshit.

Isis (52:07):
you

Kiera (52:07):
know, that's probably just your fricking frontal lobe growing.
Yeah.
Just a wee bit.

Isis (52:11):
all you have to do is go to this class.
Right?

Kiera (52:14):
And whether you're mentally present or not,

Isis (52:17):
doesn't matter.
Moving on, uh, first two years ofcollege, it's definitely if you have
to pick your class and your professorand what you should value, it's great.
Over knowledge rate, my professor, great.
Over knowledge, easy A, allthe easy A you can collect.
Those first two years the reason Isay grade over knowledge is there's no
reason to sacrifice your G P A thosefirst two years for a bunch of classes

(52:40):
you probably don't care about anyways.
Yeah.
So unless you care about the material,like if you're taking like, okay, your
fine art credit for example, like youcared about dance, so when you went to go
take your fine art credit, it was worth.
Learning whatever you wanted to learn.
Yeah.
But for someone like me whocouldn't care about my fine art,
I just need to take the class
at that point, it's priority of my grade.
And easy.
Personal enrichment

Kiera (53:00):
is good.
Yes.
To like, think about, um, you'renot just wasting all of these years
of academics on stuff to just geta grade and not learn anything.
Um, learning is wonderful.
Mm-hmm.
Um, but you know, you're sooverwhelmed and there's a bunch of
classes that you don't care aboutpersonally and you just have to take.

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And in those cases,

Isis (53:23):
just a grade.
But now that I'm in mymaster's classes now I'm like,
knowledge, is it more important?
like I'll take a professor that I know isgonna be hard, but I'll learn something.
Yeah.
Which I would not recommend likeas a freshman, because even if
I was gonna learn something, Iprobably didn't care enough at that.
I didn't have like the mentalmaturity to just care enough to learn.
So like it wasn't evenvaluable at that point in life.

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Um, the other thing is, no 7:30AM classes, no Friday classes,
no three times a week classes.
None of that.
None of that.
Garbage.
Garbage.
That should just be illegal.

Kiera (53:55):
You're not gonna go.
No, you're just

Isis (53:58):
not.
No, you're not.
You can't also like the three times aweek classes are 50 minutes and the two
times a week are an hour and 15, andliterally you cannot, you know what?
You can tell a difference of havingto drive to school on Friday.
You know what?
You can't tell a difference of anextra 25 minutes in a class that
either you like or don't like.
Either way, you're either happyto be there or hate being there.
So the difference of the15 minutes doesn't matter.

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oh,

Kiera (54:21):
even if you do go, even if you do manage to get there for your seven 30,
You're physically there.
literally gonna be more focusedabout just keeping your eyes
open than any material ever.
Also, even if you think that you'regetting the material, like you're

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writing it down, you're asking aquestion, you're like, I'm doing this.
I guarantee you are just gonnado better in the classes that
are later guaranteed, no matter,

Isis (54:54):
like guaranteed.
Well, I was gonna say, the otherthing to consider is like, look, if
you're coming from high school, it'syour first semester in college and
you have a 7:30 AM you'll be fine.
You'll most likely be okay.
But in general, 7:30 AM garbage.
Yeah.
Friday garbage also.
'cause

Kiera (55:09):
it's like, I'm sure most of the time.
Um, a seven 30, like isn't a choice,at least when I had to take one.
Yeah.
I, it was just the only thing available.
But then what happens is like, you onlyhave it two days a week, like Monday
and Wednesday, and then on Tuesday andThur Thursday you probably get like a
fricking 10 30 or later who even knows.
And then your sleep scheduleis just always terrible.

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Like I would say, if anything, try to haveyour starting times always the same four
day, four days in a row at the same time.
Yeah.
Priority.
Having the flopped of like your startingtimes and so you just sleeping in
and then not being able to go to bedand then not getting enough sleep.
Basically,

Isis (55:49):
if you're gonna have a 7:30 AM always have a like have it for
the whole week and if you're notgonna have a 7:30 AM like then try
to get them as close as possible.
Yeah.
All of your

Kiera (55:57):
starting then your brain sleep better for your poor little brain ski.
Yeah,

Isis (56:00):
and it's just like hard too.
'cause then you like, dunnowhat day of the week it is.
Good.
But if you know it every day yougotta get the, you have to be
there every day at the same time.
Right.
It's way easier than beinglike, is it whose day?
Right.

Kiera (56:11):
You don't even have to think.
You just function.
You can just move.

Isis (56:15):
Also, I will say though, if there's a class that's an easy A and it's only
available in the morning, I would take it.
I would take it, The otherthing that these are okays.
These are maybes.
Maybes are online classes andthey're really, really long.
One time a week class.
Yeah.
Maybe.
Maybe online.
It depends if it's less thanthree credits and you sure.

(56:38):
If it's on a Friday, sure.
If you have to take a threetime a week class on and it
ends on Friday, online is fine.
Mm-hmm.
Yeah.
Also, I feel like if it fucks upyour schedule too, I think the
biggest takeaway is the peak.
Perfect.
Lovey-dovey.
Most ultimate schedule inthe world is 11 to three.

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If you can get your classes between11 and three, four days a week.
With no big

Kiera (57:04):
gaps.
Beautiful.
Whoa.
You could get a

Isis (57:07):
job.
You could do anything.

Kiera (57:09):
So little re recaps you do Live in the dorm.
Start single, say hi picklejuice slash electrolytes.
Grades are more worth it than knowledge.
Never have a seven 30.
Get an S t D test.
Stay away from powders andespecially powders from strangers.

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And you're gonna be fine.

Isis (57:34):
You're gonna be fine.
We're gonna do it.
And if you decide not to go to college,we'll see you at the Toaster factory.
All right, great.

Kiera (57:44):
More?
Was that it?
Should we say

Isis (57:46):
bye?
I thought that's what we'll see you at.
The toaster factory was

Kiera (57:51):
this is Crisis with Karen and Isis.
Goodbye.
Bye,

Isis (57:56):
bitches.