<human>: Can you provide a brief rundown of the text in within 3 sentences?

Help me, r/personalfinance. You're my only hope!

I'm starting graduate school in September and I'm going to be honest with you: I have no idea what in the hell to do with my finances.

My parents have supported me financially my entire life, and once Grad school is over I am on my own. Throughout college, I told them that I could get a part time job to cover expenses and to get experience. But they always told me that "school was my job", which is fine... Except for the fact that I need job experience. I'm getting my MFA and going into a career in musical theatre, so the job market will not exactly be ideal. So before I'm on my own in expensive as hell NYC, I want to spend the next two years earning and saving as much money as possible. Any suggestions for part time jobs or savings plans? Seriously, I'm going in blind. And my parents are very overprotective, and like to hang finances over my head to guilt me and/or control me. With financial independence comes true freedom, so I want that as soon as possible.
<bot>: parents are cutting me off when I graduate from Grad school, and because of their insistence I didn't have a part time job. What can I start out with to save as much money as possible before being financially independent?