Sorry in advanced. I am away from my family in a state that I don't know if I'm "supposed" to be doing. I have my wonderful wife, but I feel like I can't talk to her, as she gets sad/upset every time I mention anything.
A little back story. I got married and came to grad school for chemistry in Texas within 2 weeks of each other June/July of 2012. I busted my ass since then, but like many students got behind. I tried my damnedest to get caught back up by pulling an all nighter to get data for a paper I was writing. However, I did not think of the samples I was running. They had DNT in it, a precursor for TNT. TBH it is harmless, especially in the quantities in the samples. However, this gave me the ticket out of the group. This wasted almost two years of research time. I know it is great experience, but it makes it logically impossible for me to get my PhD. I fought it for a while and finally found a group that would take me, however he had no funding. Therefore, I sought a masters degree. Even less professors give masters, and most of the time, they are not supported (support is anything from full pay to a teaching position; I've taught the last 2 years). I talked to a professor Monday about a masters and she said she would have a spot this summer. I come back Wednesday to tell her that I would accept her offer and she was like "Oh.... about that spot... I have no money". Common theme for me right now.. However, I ask her about support in the fall. She said it is not guaranteed, but she's more likely to have some support then, but she doesn't want to take me because I will miss an entire summer's research. However, I am desperate at this point. I offer her my summer for free. 50 hours a week to do research in the hopes that I will get my masters degree. My wife is teaching summer school and has my would be salary covered, however, we still must cut back on a lot of things (including my cigar budget :argh::argh::argh::argh
. But there is still no guarantee that I will have funding in the fall. So I am now a broke ass, 50 hour a week, masters student, who now gets no pay for his work and no guarantee of his masters. Light one up for me tonight, brothers. I need it
A little back story. I got married and came to grad school for chemistry in Texas within 2 weeks of each other June/July of 2012. I busted my ass since then, but like many students got behind. I tried my damnedest to get caught back up by pulling an all nighter to get data for a paper I was writing. However, I did not think of the samples I was running. They had DNT in it, a precursor for TNT. TBH it is harmless, especially in the quantities in the samples. However, this gave me the ticket out of the group. This wasted almost two years of research time. I know it is great experience, but it makes it logically impossible for me to get my PhD. I fought it for a while and finally found a group that would take me, however he had no funding. Therefore, I sought a masters degree. Even less professors give masters, and most of the time, they are not supported (support is anything from full pay to a teaching position; I've taught the last 2 years). I talked to a professor Monday about a masters and she said she would have a spot this summer. I come back Wednesday to tell her that I would accept her offer and she was like "Oh.... about that spot... I have no money". Common theme for me right now.. However, I ask her about support in the fall. She said it is not guaranteed, but she's more likely to have some support then, but she doesn't want to take me because I will miss an entire summer's research. However, I am desperate at this point. I offer her my summer for free. 50 hours a week to do research in the hopes that I will get my masters degree. My wife is teaching summer school and has my would be salary covered, however, we still must cut back on a lot of things (including my cigar budget :argh::argh::argh::argh
. But there is still no guarantee that I will have funding in the fall. So I am now a broke ass, 50 hour a week, masters student, who now gets no pay for his work and no guarantee of his masters. Light one up for me tonight, brothers. I need it 
