During the first week of my graduate school experience in Albuquerque, a biochemist at the company where I would be doing my research told me about his own research. He was trying to find a way to isolate a certain type of lung cell.
My own supervisor got offered a job in Washington, DC. After he left, I struggled to get my bearings, but did not succeed.
Before the school year had ended, I learned that I would no longer be in that graduate program. I had to look for a source of income. I found a job at the University of New Mexico.
A researcher at the University had the same dream as the biochemist that had spoken to me earlier. He wanted to isolate that one particular type of lung cell; he also wanted to grow it in culture.
He had purchased a special machine, which he thought would help him achieve his purpose. I had used the same machine when I was working on my MS degree. That was why he hired me. Later I told a graduate student that had remained in my old program about my successful efforts to isolate and grow that one type of lung cell. I am sure that she told others in the facility that ad rejected me.