I know that some of you attended graduate school, and if so, and you haven’t discovered PHD Comics, then you’ve been missing out. The characters in the comics are all science majors, but the life of a graduate student is universal in many ways. The two most recent comics made me laugh out loud. I hope they have the same effect on you.

About Piled Higher and Deeper

The strip:

“Piled Higher and Deeper” (PhD) is the comic strip about life (or the lack thereof) in academia.

The author:

Jorge Cham, the author of PHD Comics, got his PhD in Mechanical Engineering at Stanford University, and was a full-time Instructor and researcher at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) from 2003-2005.

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• Piled Higher and Deeper: A Graduate Student Comic Strip Collection read online (aqruqahi.wordpress.com)