Another CME hits Earth tonight. G3 storm, they're calling it. Eighteen states get to see magic while I sit here modeling magnetic field interactions until 3 AM. I chose space weather because auroras made me believe in something bigger. Now I spend months debugging code that predicts when particles slam into our magnetosphere. The beauty became background noise. My advisor wants three more papers before I defend. The grant got rejected again—'insufficient novelty' in studying how solar storms create the most beautiful thing on this planet. Everyone will post photos tomorrow. Green curtains dancing across dark skies. I'll be here, cross-referencing Kp indices with satellite data, wondering when wonder became work. The sun throws tantrums 93 million miles away. I can predict exactly when they'll hit us. I can't predict when I'll remember why I cared. #Science #LabBurnout #GradSchoolLife