The Power of Procrastination

Jorge Cham

Tuesday, 12 Apr 2016 at 6:00 pm – Great Hall, Memorial Union

Jorge Cham is the creator of PHD Comics, including Piled Higher and Deeper, a comic strip about life (or the lack thereof) in Academia. The strip chronicles the struggles and humor of the lives of graduate students, the majority of whom admit to feeling overwhelmed and often depressed. Cham speaks about his experiences bringing humor into the lives of stressed out academics, examines the source of their anxieties and explores the guilt, the myth and the power of procrastination. The strips have been compiled into five collections, including Life Is Tough and Then You Graduate and Adventures in Thesisland. He is also the cofounder of PHDtv, an offshoot of the strip used to communicate the ideas, stories and personalities of researchers, scientists and scholars worldwide in creative, compelling and truthful ways. Cham earned his Ph.D. in Robotics from Stanford University and was previously an instructor and research associate at the California Institute of Technology. Part of the Graduate & Professional Student Senate Research Conference
Additional Event:
Film Screening & Conversation with Jorge Cham
The PhD Movie 2: Still in Grad School
Monday, 11 Apr 2016, 7pm
Great Hall, Memorial Union

Cosponsored By:
  • Graduate & Professional Student Senate
  • Student Government
  • Committee on Lectures (funded by Student Government)
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