Piled Higher and Deeper

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Piled Higher and Deeper
Phdcomicslogo.gif
Author(s) Jorge Cham
Website http://www.phdcomics.com
Current status/scheduleno longer releasing new content
Launch dateOctober 27, 1997
Genre(s) Academia, doctoral research
A PhD Comics special on the occasion of Open Access Week 2012

Piled Higher and Deeper (also known as PhD Comics) [1] is a discontinued newspaper and webcomic strip produced from 1997 to 2018. The series was written and drawn by Jorge Cham, and follows the lives of several grad students. First published in 1997 when Cham was a grad student himself at Stanford University, the strip deals with issues of life in graduate school, including the difficulties of scientific research, the perils of procrastination, and the complex student–supervisor relationship. As of 2017, the strip's website had 6 million visitors in the previous year. [2]

Contents

History

Piled Higher and Deeper was first published in The Stanford Daily, the student newspaper at Stanford University, in October 1997. The newspaper had put out a call for comics and Cham, a student and teaching assistant at the time, discussed ideas for comics with his brother and friends. Cham's brother, Jaime, suggested there should be a comic about grad school "because that's when the real pain begins". [3] Cham had no formal art training [1] and had never tried drawing comics before but his comic was accepted. [3] Cham created the website a few weeks later. Cham continued the strip while completing his PhD and later while an instructor in mechanical engineering at Caltech, then in July 2005 left this work to become a full-time cartoonist. [3]

Originally, the strip was drawn in black-and-white, eventually became grayscale, and finally became color in June 2004.[ citation needed ]

The archive of the strip are available for free online. The strip was also syndicated free to student newspapers, with Cham earning a living through book sales, merchandise, and giving lectures. [3]

Themes

The title of the comic comes from an old joke about becoming a Ph.D., which explains that "B.S." stands for "bullshit", "M.S." stands for "More of the Same" (or "More Shit"), and "Ph.D." stands for "Piled Higher and Deeper".

The comic follows the lives of graduate students and their professors. Reviewer Sara Coelho said "the comic deals with everyday frustrations of life in the lab – procrastination, dealing with advisers, serving on committees, lack of inspiration". [3] Comics deal with the isolation of graduate work. [2] [3]

Cham's comics have also been on real-world research, such as a five-comic series following a visit to CERN. [4]

Characters

Piled Higher and Deeper introduced its main characters early in its run, and their personalities have remained fairly constant during the strip's several years of publication.[ citation needed ] In the strip's first few seasons, the characters were clearly Stanford University students, though the number of school-specific references and jokes has decreased since.[ citation needed ]

Cham has said that while the characters are not based on real people, he was inspired by colleagues, classmates, and his brother's friends. [3]

Students

Faculty

Parodies

Jorge Cham after his "Power of Procrastination" talk at UIUC, March 8, 2007 Jorge Chum at UIUC by Ragib.jpg
Jorge Cham after his "Power of Procrastination" talk at UIUC, March 8, 2007

One of Cham's recurring themes is to re-cast an item of popular culture in the grad-school milieu. Upon several occasions, the strip has included spoofs of popular movies, like The Thesis ( The Matrix ), [# 57] Raiders of the Lost Dissertation ( Raiders of the Lost Ark ), [# 58] I, Grad Student (a mixture of the book and movie I, Robot), [# 59] and Summer days ("Summer Nights" [# 60] ). In addition, Cham has parodied television programs like The Jerry Springer Show, among others.

Jorge Cham has also parodied Newton's laws of motion as Newton's 3 Laws of Graduation. [# 61] According to the strip these laws of graduation were superseded by Einstein's Special Theory of Research Inactivity, much as Newton's actual laws were superseded by Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity.

Another series of strips takes up the modern debate about the proper use of the term "irony". [# 62]

The strip has also included several adaptations of Shakespeare as well as several propaganda posters. Captions for the latter include "This man does research for you!", "When you procrastinate... Someone is watching!" and "Women in grad school... Support your local female geek."

Cham has also released two song parodies, purportedly sung by Tajel, in MP3 format: "Closer to fine" [# 63] (cf. Indigo Girls) and "Who will grade your work" [# 64] ("Who Will Save Your Soul").

Reception

The comic resonated with graduate students. [3] As of 2011, the strip's website had received 7 million visitors in the previous year, [1] and a 2017 article reported that it received 6 million visitors a year. [2] As of 2009, Cham had sold more than 46,000 books. [4]

Books

Six PhD comic books were published. These are collections of the PHD Comic strips, and some books also contain bonus material:

Movie adaptations

The PHD Movie

In March 2011, Jorge Cham started filming a movie based on the comic series. The film production was a collaboration between Cham and a theater group at the California Institute of Technology. In fall 2011, the film was released on selected academic campuses. [6] A trailer of the movie was released to the Piled Higher and Deeper website on June 8, 2011. [7] After about a year of various campus screenings around the world, the movie became available for purchase on DVD or streaming on April 15, 2012. [8] A columnist for Nature wrote: "the film puts the plight of the PhD student on the big screen, giving student audiences a chance to laugh at themselves... the film tackles some of the negative aspects of pursuing a PhD and a science career... The PhD Movie raises a question that crosses many students' minds: why bother? The answer it provides resonates with the audience: Everybody is here because they want to be here ... You have to embrace the things you're passionate about.'" [9]

The PHD Movie 2: Still in Grad School

The sequel to the first movie was shot in the Caltech campus.[ citation needed ] The budget of $163,000 was provided by almost Kickstarter backers. [10] It was released in September 2015; the comedy relates to a research team seeking a key molecule in a cutthroat environment for jobs and grants. [11]

Lectures

Cham gives lectures based on his comic. A 2009 article wrote that "the popularity of his keynote lectures... are enough to make even the most distinguished professor green with envy." His first lecture was at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2005 and was entitled "The Power of Procrastination". [3]

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Story notes

  1. Jorge Cham (September 21, 2001), Lil' sister, Piled Higher and Deeper, archived from the original on October 26, 2007, retrieved April 23, 2009
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  4. Jorge Cham (November 22, 1997), Dead Week, Piled Higher and Deeper, archived from the original on October 5, 2007, retrieved April 23, 2009)
  5. Cecilia turned 25 in 2005: Jorge Cham, Birthday 2005, Piled Higher and Deeper, archived from the original on December 30, 2010, retrieved October 28, 2009; Cham, Scooped!, p. 12.
  6. Cecilia went to her 10 year high school reunion in 2001: Jorge Cham (November 14, 2001), High School Reunion, Piled Higher and Deeper, archived from the original on September 24, 2011, retrieved October 28, 2009; Cham, Scooped!, p. 12.
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