About the media's influence...

One of my favorite webcomics is PhD Comics, created by Jorge Cham, who spends half of his time as a researcher at Caltech and the other half traveling the world, promoting his comics (quite an interesting career; I believe he spoke at Michigan last year, but I unfortunately found out too late). The comics depict the ups and downs of grad student life in hilarious ways, and having been involved in research throughout undergrad, I find it to be frightfully accurate. Talking today about the media's influence made me recall this amusing piece.

Here's a link to his most popular comics, some of which I will never tire: http://www.phdcomics.com/comics/most_popular.php