Intros on Intros

Hello bloggosphere!!

My name is Nicole and I have been trying to think of ways to cope with the mess I have put myself in. I am in graduate school getting my PhD in chemistry. Well I don't make much money and I know how to spend a lot of money.
Before school I had a nice job making decent money. I was living at home so I could pay off my student loans. One day I get an email from the graduate school being like, do you still want in? And I was like lol this is too informal to be real. And low and behold it was very real. I got in!! So my salary was cut to 1/3 of what I was making.
I was doing fine. Until I made friends. And well friends have parents who can help them. I have a single working mother with 4 kids making ends meet. So needless to say I went into debt quickly.
Last May I was hit the hardest. Summer paychecks in graduate school suck. I was in so much debt, negative bank account, couldn't pay rent. Which is when I decided I have to do something. Many people were like get a side job work as a bartender. But no no, you can't do that in graduate school. They have a rule, no second jobs. So it needed to be under the radar something that I could do on my own time from the comfort of my own home at odd hours.
So here begins my story.