PhD Comics steal material from my life
Last week, a group of people from my department went to see a talk by Jorge Cham, the creator of PhD Comics. For those of you grad students (or medical students, law students, etc.) who have never heard of PhD Comics, shame on you. No, seriously.
For the unenlightened, PhD Comics is a web comic strip created by Jorge Cham while he was a graduate student back in the 1990s. The subject matter: the life of a graduate student. Nearly every grad student that I know who has read this strip finds it frightenly accurate to our daily lives. I’ve even recently sent it to my mother to read when she starts questioning why I do the things that I do. If you’d like to check it out, there is a page for new visitors.
Anyway, the talk was quite enjoyable and funny. His talk consisted of 20 minutes of making fun of Minnesota, followed by 40 minutes of justifying the art of procrastination. I even got to buy his book and get it autographed. And there were pictures taken with him! Check them out below.