The author of the Piled Higher and Deeper comic strip, which has been called the Dilbert of academia, will speak at Vanderbilt University about “The Power of Procrastination.”
Jorge Cham will speak at 5 p.m. on Wednesday, April 4, in Room 103 of Wilson Hall on the Vanderbilt campus. A reception and book signing will follow the lecture.
The event is free and the public is welcome.
Citing statistics from the University of California, Berkeley, that 95 percent of graduate students feel overwhelmed and 67 percent have been seriously 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.”
Piled Higher and Deeper appears in university newspapers at Carnegie Mellon University, Stanford University and
elsewhere, and receives more than 2 million page views per month at the www.phdcomics.com website. Two books compiling the strips have been released.
Cham’s talk is sponsored by the Vanderbilt University Graduate Student Council in association with the Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities at Vanderbilt.
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