Jorge Cham! My Hero!

Friday afternoon, our graduate and professional student association hosted a very special speaker. I am not normally one to get involved in GPSA activities; school spirit is lost on the graduate student. I can't even comment on who normally attends such events, but this time I KNEW I had to go. The GPSA was hosting Jorge Cham, of PHD Comics fame. If you are not familiar with these comics, it wouldn't take much perusing of his site to realize that the target audience is graduate students, and he has a knack for recognizing the irony/wit/frustrations of the lifestyle- and formatting it into 4 punchy frames. Many of the punchlines make us laugh and cry, but perhaps not if you aren't so intimately familiar with the structure of academic institutions. But if you can get through that, perhaps it can serve as a bit of a window into my life.

Dr. Cham's talk was very fun, lighthearted, geeky and insightful. The title of the 'tour' is "The Power of Procrastination," which he embodies as someone who makes a career out of the work he did while he was supposed to be getting research done.