After a long and stressful day of researching and discussing PhD and PhD/MD programs, I decided that I needed a little humour. Keeping in the vein of today’s primary topic, however, I thought it appropriate to look for comics related to graduate school. Further, given that a professor of mine had several comic strips from a site called PhDComics.com (which stands for “Piled Higher and Deeper” actually), I thought I would check out what the site had to offer. There are TONS of comic strips on there that might only be funny to someone either going through the Hell-spawned tribulations of Graduate School, or one who simply subscribes to a sufficient level of geekitude (yes, that is a custom fabricated noun).

Anyway, this one particular comic strip made me roll on the floor laughing my ass off (ROFLMAO according to the trendy vernacular of contemporary internet transactions). I think I found it especially funny because a professor and good friend of mine had a conversation about precisely this topic—the construction of a thesis title. Anyway, here’s the cartoon, which can also be found (in context) on this page of the PhDComics archive:

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Anyone familiar with scholarly journal articles or recently finishing an initial draft of a dissertation (you know who you are :P) should know, all-too-well, the qualms of titling. 🙂

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