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SUMMARY:The Power of Procrastination - Jorge Cham
DTSTART:20071022T160000Z
DTEND:20071022T173000Z
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CONTACT:Simon Ford
DESCRIPTION:_*Jorge Cham\, creator of PHD Comics\, will be speaking in Cam
 bridge on Monday 22nd October.*_\n\nSee the Facebook event page: http://ca
 mbridge.facebook.com/event.php?eid=6923711162\nand the comic itself:\nhttp
 ://www.phdcomics.com/comics.php\n\nDoors open at 5pm for 5:30pm start.\n\n
 Cost: £2\n\nAll welcome\, not just long-suffering graduate researchers!\n
 \nIf you don’t know Jorge or the comic\, here’s a snippet of info…\n
 \n*About Jorge Cham:*\n\nJorge Cham is the creator and artist of Piled Hig
 her and Deeper (PHD)\, the comic strip about life (or the lack thereof) in
  grad school.\n\nOften called the Dilbert of academia\, PHD has appeared i
 n the Stanford\, MIT \, Caltech and Carnegie Mellon newspapers among other
 s\, and it is published online where it receives over 6 million page views
  a month from over 1000 universities and colleges worldwide.\n\nJorge Cham
  was born and raised in the Republic of Panama. He obtained his B.S. in Me
 chanical Engineering from Georgia Tech and his M.S. and Ph.D. in Mechanica
 l Engineering from Stanford University (specializing in Robotics)\, where 
 he started drawing PHD. He was subsequently an Instructor and Research Ass
 ociate at Caltech from 2003-2005\, where his work focused on developing 
 “Smart” Neural Implants. He has published and presented nationally and
  abroad on his Robotics and Neural Prosthetics research. He also travels a
 nd presents all over the world to thousands of graduate students\, faculty
  and administrators on the graduate student experience.\n\nThree PHD book 
 collections have been published. In all\, Jorge Cham’s books have sold o
 ver 35\,000 copies to date.\n\n*About the talk:*\n\nA recent survey by U.C
 . Berkeley found that 95% of all graduate students feel overwhelmed\, and 
 over 67% have felt seriously depressed at some point in their careers. In 
 this talk\, Jorge Cham recounts his experiences bringing humor into the li
 ves of stressed out academics\, examines the source of their anxieties and
  explores the guilt\, the myth\, and the power of procrastination.\nRough 
 outline:\n* How “Piled Higher and Deeper” got started\n* Grad students
  in the media and popular perceptions\n* The big question: Why grad school
 ?\n* Average stipends\n* PhD goes global: you are not alone\n* The power o
 f procrastination: arguments in favor of putting things off\n* Guilt and l
 osing your mojo: common causes for depression in grad school\n* Embracing 
 procrastination and getting back on track
LOCATION:Cambridge University Engineering Department\, Lecture Theatre 0
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