{"id":1744,"date":"2006-04-05T21:18:47","date_gmt":"2006-04-06T04:18:47","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2007-03-17T12:29:41","modified_gmt":"2007-03-17T20:29:41","slug":"1744","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/?p=1744","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

Jorge Cham of Piled Higher and Deeper<\/a> (a comic strip about graduate school life) came to CMU today! Because I had class, I missed his lecture on procrastination and graduate school. But he signed my copy of his first book.<\/p>\n

Of course, when it was my turn to meet Jorge, I started babbling about how great his book was and where I got his book just like any other fan. But now I have a signed copy!<\/p>\n

Last year, Jason the professor I worked for the last 3 years…gave it to me as a token of appreciation. Truly, the phd comics summarize my graduate life from free food to the prevalent social awkwardness of grad students to of course, procrastination.<\/p>\n

So I am glad that I decided to do a (professional) masters rather than a phd. More bang for the buck. phd comics said so.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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