I've been in PhD programs in math and computer science. Then my stipend didn't cover family members' medical bills ('murica!) and I missed sleeping and I remembered I could be writing trivial CRUD forms for 40-more-like-15 hours a week and around 3 times the median income in my area.
Yeah, I'm sorry, I had to do a bit of a performance art piece, here. I thought it might be the best way to help him. In graduate school, everyone is guaranteed to fail at something. Honestly, I had already figured you're some kind of a sysadmingodmindcrypto, or maybe even a pure mathematician, so deal with it. And those don't come out of Phoenix University, usually. ...Is grad school just like this for me? edit: sorry about the line above, I have to remind myself that the demonstration is over