The author of the Piled Higher and Deeper comic strip, which has been called the Dilbert of academia, will speak at about “The Power of Procrastination.”
will speak at 5 p.m. on Wednesday, April 4, in Room 103 of Wilson Hall on the ²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ campus. A reception and book signing will follow the lecture.
The event is free and the public is welcome.
Citing statistics from the , 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 , and
elsewhere, and receives more than 2 million page views per month at the website. Two books compiling the strips have been released.
Cham’s talk is sponsored by the ²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ University Graduate Student Council in association with the Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities at ²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ.
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