Comic Strip Week: PHD Comics
As a PHD student, this comic strip is a must. Author Jorge Cham does a great job of capturing the woes of being a graduate student. If you are a graduate student, you will definitely see yourself in many of the same situations, but even if you are not, you will still be able to feel our pai... I mean, joy. The characters are also enjoyable. There is the smart, chocolate-loving Cecilia, the lazy, eternal graduate student Mike Slackenerny, the Humanities student Tajel, the nameless, average main character, and, of course, the research advisor. The comic strip is actually called "Piled Higher and Deeper", which is an alternative meaning to the PHD acronym and a pretty good descriptor of graduate life. If you are interested in this comic strip about life (or, as the comic strip site says, the lack thereof) in academia, just go to www.phdcomics.com. The site even has an RSS feed to get new comic strips directly in your feed reader! Enjoy!