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10/27/1997Very Close - First Phd strip!
10/28/1997Calling Mom
10/29/1997Why are we doing this?
10/30/1997Grading Homeworks
10/31/1997Pi/2 TA
11/3/1997Halloween
11/4/1997Quarter System
11/5/1997Dating Odds
11/6/1997Tourist Attraction
11/7/1997TA Answer times two
11/10/1997Roommate
11/11/1997Ramen
11/12/1997Macs
11/13/1997Macs
11/14/1997Macs
11/17/1997Research Independent Study
11/18/1997Research Independent Study
11/19/1997Research Independent Study
11/20/1997Sleep blink
11/21/1997Sleep Calculator
11/22/1997Dead Week
11/23/1997Thanksgiving
11/24/1997Thanksgiving
11/25/1997Thanksgiving
1/6/1998Geeks Anonymous
1/7/1998Geeks Anonymous
1/9/1998Geeks Anonymous
1/11/1998Quals
1/14/1998Quals
1/16/1998Quals
1/21/1998Quals
1/23/1998Quals
1/26/1998Quals
1/28/1998Complain
1/30/1998TA crush
2/2/1998Dating at Stanford
2/4/1998Raining at Stanford
2/6/1998Mike Slackenerny introduction. The Geekiness is strong in this one...
2/9/1998Mike Slackenerny. Free food. It binds us.
2/11/1998Mike Slackenerny. A PhD. students needs not such things.
2/13/1998Mike Slackenerny. Training conclusion.
2/17/1998Apologies to Shakespeare
2/18/1998Apologies to Shakespeare
2/20/1998Apologies to Shakespeare
2/25/1998Learn spanish!
2/25/1998Aprenda espan~ol!
2/27/1998Grad student etiquette
3/2/1998Stanford Tree
3/4/1998TA crush
3/6/1998TA crush
4/1/1998Spring Break
4/3/1998Spring Break
4/6/1998Prospective grad student
4/8/1998Prospective grad student
4/10/1998Engineering ratio
4/13/1998Engineering ratio
4/15/1998Engineering ratio
4/17/1998Student Elections
4/20/1998TA
4/22/1998Group meeting, conference in Hawaii
4/24/1998Group meeting, conference in Hawaii
4/27/1998The little grad student - `Paid for my work`
4/29/1998The little grad student - `Paid for my work`
5/1/1998Happy Birthday
5/4/1998On campus housing - Ethernet
5/6/1998Housing - Manzanita Trailer Park
5/8/1998Housing - Hooverville
5/11/1998Housing - Conspiracy
5/13/1998Housing - Revolt vs. Must-see-TV
5/18/1998Career Fair
5/20/1998Career Fair
5/22/1998Slackenerny - going to Vegas
5/27/1998Housing - I have a dream...
6/3/1998Season 1 Finale
6/3/1998Season 1 Finale
6/3/1998Season 1 Finale

9/23/1998Season 2 intro - PhD. drama sampler
9/25/1998Housing - Living in your cubicle
9/28/1998New master`s students` smell
9/30/1998In-room Ethernet connection
10/2/1998Quals - Flashback
10/5/1998Thesis topic - grad school application
10/7/1998Thesis topic - grad school application
10/9/1998Thesis topic - Epiphany
10/12/1998After-lunch siesta haze
10/14/1998After-lunch siesta haze
10/16/1998Career tip
10/19/1998Slackenerny - married
10/21/1998Slackenerny - married
10/23/1998Warning label
10/26/1998Funding - sponsors
10/28/1998Slackenerny - TA - Our mascot is a tree!?
10/30/1998Slackenerny - TA - Our mascot is a tree!?
11/2/1998Day dreaming
11/6/1998Slackenerny - TA - Our mascot is a tree!?
11/9/1998Visiting Researcher - Mariko
11/11/1998Visiting Researcher - Mariko
11/13/1998Grad Housing Town Hall meeting sketch
11/16/1998Visiting Researcher - Mariko
11/18/1998Visiting Researcher - Mariko
11/20/1998Visiting Researcher - Mariko
11/23/1998Thanksgiving
1/8/1999Quitting
1/13/1999Quitting
2/22/1999Free what? (return of comics to the Daily)
2/24/1999Quitting
2/26/1999Strange behavior
3/3/1999Strange behavior
3/5/1999Strange behavior
3/10/1999Strange behavior
3/31/1999Strange behavior
4/5/1999Grad Student documentary
4/7/1999Grad Student documentary
4/9/1999Grad Student documentary
4/12/1999Grad Student documentary
4/14/1999Grad Student documentary
4/16/1999Grad Student documentary
4/19/1999Napping
4/21/1999Egg Donor
4/23/1999Egg Donor
4/26/1999Egg Donor
4/28/1999Passing out
4/30/1999Happy Birthday
5/3/1999Graph - Work output
5/5/1999Graph - Motivation level
5/7/1999Ex`s
5/10/1999Day dreaming
5/12/1999Conference in Pisa?
5/14/1999Star Wars craze
5/24/1999PhD - Episode 1
5/26/1999PhD - Episode 1
5/28/1999PhD - Episode 1
6/2/1999PhD - Episode 1

9/0/1999Season 3 intro
9/23/1999Season 3 intro
10/1/1999What have I been doing??
10/4/1999What have I been doing?
10/6/1999What is... The Thesis?
10/8/1999What is... The Thesis?
10/11/1999What is... The Thesis?
10/15/1999What is... The Thesis?
10/18/1999What is... The Thesis?
10/20/1999What is... The Thesis?
10/22/1999What is... The Thesis?
10/27/1999What is... The Thesis?
10/29/1999Post-quals Slump (PQS)
11/1/1999Post-quals Slump (PQS)
11/3/1999Sit up Straight
11/5/1999Thesis writing
11/17/1999everybody in grad school
11/19/1999Go Cardinal!
11/22/1999Graph - Radius of posture curvature
11/24/1999Thesis writing
1/5/2000Conference paper
1/7/2000So long as we`re not kidding ourselves
1/12/2000So long as we`re not kidding ourselves
1/14/2000So long as we`re not kidding ourselves
1/24/2000Raiders of the lost dissertation
1/26/2000Raiders of the lost dissertation
1/28/2000Raiders of the lost dissertation
1/31/2000Raiders of the lost dissertation
2/2/2000Raiders of the lost dissertation
2/7/2000Geeks on wheels
2/23/2000Who Wants to Marry a Millionaire
2/25/2000Who Wants to Marry a Millionaire
3/1/2000Who wants to Marry a Millionaire
3/16/2000Finals Week - Messing with their minds
3/31/2000Behold the Power of Procrastination
4/3/2000Prospective grad students
4/5/2000Posture Back Cracking
4/7/2000Webcam Labcam
4/10/2000Webcam Labcam
4/12/2000Webcam Labcam Tajel Spray Paint
4/14/2000ProFro Prospective Freshmen Tour
4/17/2000Blue Hair
4/19/2000Backpacks
4/21/2000Sneaking Past Advisor`s office
4/24/2000Creativity in Engineering, Paper Submission Guidelines
4/26/2000We`re not that pathetic..? ...Are we?
4/28/2000Squished it with a ten-ton hammer I fixed it. Bugs. Code.
5/1/2000Happy Birthday, Percentage of Years in Grad School
5/3/2000Janis Joplin, Oh Prof won`t you grant me a PhD...
5/5/2000Animation!
5/5/2000Animation!
5/8/2000Addicted to the web...
5/12/2000Maxell Ad Spoof - HIFI: High-intensity Faculty Intelligence
5/15/2000PhD Years-to-Thesis Chapter Conversion Chart
5/17/2000Light at the end of the Thesis - Can you see it?
5/19/2000Lab Age Perception Chart
6/20/2000Summer Ad
6/28/2000Closer to Fine (Academic Version)
7/8/2000cartoons of the cartoonist by his advisor`s daughters
7/13/2000I remember when Summer...
7/23/2000Who will grade your work?

9/25/2000Welcome to a fourth year of PhD..!
9/27/2000Focus Group for Comic Quality Assurance
9/29/2000Quality Assurance: Reader Survey
10/5/2000Lab Fish Tank
10/6/2000Fish Tank
10/12/2000Irony?
10/13/2000Irony?
10/24/2000`The Grad Student of Academia`
10/26/2000`The Grad Student of Academia`
10/31/2000The Grad Student of Academia
11/3/2000The Grad Student of Academia
11/8/2000The Grad Student of Academia
11/10/2000Reader Letter
11/21/2000The Grad Student of Academia
11/23/2000The Grad Student of Academia
11/24/2000The Grad Student of Academia
12/2/2000The Grad Student of Academia
12/20/2000`Twas the night before Winter Break...
1/11/2001Why has P.H.D. been published so infrequently lately?
1/12/2001The Grad Student of Academia
1/15/2001Grad Grub
1/26/2001Grad Grub
2/8/2001Grad Grub
2/15/2001Grad Grub
2/16/2001Bike Rack
3/1/2001World`s first 3D comic strip..!
3/8/2001Newton`s Three Laws of Graduation
3/10/2001Newton`s Three Laws of Graduation
3/13/2001Newton`s Three Laws of Graduation
3/15/2001PHD Haiku
3/24/2001Cecilia`s First animated feature!
4/5/2001On comics
4/10/2001Just call me `Dr. Smith`
4/13/2001Who said anything about being ready?
4/18/2001Exact figures would only embarrass the both of us...
4/20/2001Reader Letter, 2
4/25/2001Alarm Clock
4/27/2001PhD Propaganda
5/1/2001PhD Propaganda
5/3/2001PhD Propaganda
5/9/2001Calling Mom
5/11/2001If the project needs me...
5/15/2001Dancing Queen
5/17/2001Prof. Michael Slackenerny
5/23/2001Widescreen
5/25/2001Widescreen.
5/30/2001Widescreen
6/1/2001Read the abstract...
6/6/2001Lil` Sister
6/8/2001Lil` Sister
6/14/2001Lil` Sister
6/18/2001Lil` Sister
6/20/2001Lil` Sister
7/25/2001Summer Ad

9/10/2001PhD comics 2001 Season Premiere
9/11/2001Sept. 11, 2001
9/14/2001Microwave
9/19/2001I am...
9/21/2001Lil` Sister
9/26/2001It depends...
9/28/2001Ready to go home
10/3/2001It depends...
10/5/2001It depends...
10/10/2001Kids!
10/12/2001Kids!
10/18/2001Kids!
10/19/2001Kids!
10/25/2001Fun with Statistics!
10/26/2001Grad Hair
10/31/2001Halloween
11/2/2001Halloween
11/7/2001Halloween
11/9/2001Caught napping?
11/14/2001high school reunion
11/16/2001High School Reunion
11/21/2001Thanksgiving
11/28/2001High School Reunion
11/30/2001High School Reunion
12/5/2001High School Reunion
12/7/2001High School Reunion
12/12/2001Nicholas
1/9/2002New Year Resolutions
1/11/2002High School Reunion
1/16/2002High School Reunion
2/1/2002High School Reunion
2/6/2002High School Reunion
2/8/2002What will become of PhD?
2/13/2002To PhD or not to PhD...
2/15/2002To PhD or not to PhD
2/20/2002To PhD or not to PhD...
2/22/2002To be honest, Prof. Smith...
2/27/2002References
3/1/2002Anxiety vs. Reading
3/6/2002Lab Pool
3/8/2002Signs you`re close to graduating
3/13/2002Signs you`re close to Graduating
3/22/2002I ask myself this question...
3/25/2002I ask myself this question...
4/3/2002Faculty Job Search
4/5/2002Prospective grad student
4/12/2002Field Study
4/19/2002Let`s cut to the chase...
4/24/2002Honey, I`m home...
4/26/2002Birthday...
5/2/2002opportunity cost
5/8/2002New Mail!
5/10/2002Conference
5/22/2002Conference
5/27/2002Conference
5/31/2002Conference
6/6/2002Actually, Mom...
6/16/2002Commencement
7/31/2002on summer break...

9/17/20026th season Premiere!
9/21/2002You quit!?
9/25/2002So, Bro...
9/27/2002So, Bro...
9/30/2002Post-Bachelors Disorder
10/2/2002Post-Bachelors Disorder
10/4/2002Post-Bachelors Disorder
10/8/2002You HAVE started writing, have
10/10/2002If you`re too busy writing...
10/13/2002Chores
10/15/2002Working out
10/21/2002...very exciting...
10/24/2002Scientific progress never smelled better...
10/30/2002Mike and `Procrastination`
11/6/2002I just don`t know if I have what it takes...
11/11/2002Act casual...
11/19/2002GRE analytical practice question #1
12/3/2002Don`t forget the milk
12/9/2002GRE
12/11/2002GRE
12/17/2002GRE
1/10/2003How does he do it??
1/15/2003you know things are bad...
1/22/2003Questions...
1/24/2003Recommendations
1/29/2003I am a writing god!
3/31/2003I am a writing god
2/5/2003Her first white hair
2/8/2003Her first white hair
2/12/2003it`s so hard to get up in the morning...
2/14/2003Valentine`s
3/10/2003Grad School Boot Camp
3/17/2003What??
3/21/2003Why war?
3/25/2003Peace
3/28/2003Thesis gut
4/2/2003Thesis gut
4/4/2003Did you say `lunch`?
4/16/2003White hair
4/23/2003c is for cookie break
4/25/2003Ode to the cookie
4/30/2003Glasses
5/2/2003Does it bother you..?
5/7/2003How is he going to know I'm not there??
5/13/2003Anniversary
5/16/2003I've been doing some math...
5/21/2003cubicle
5/23/2003cubicle
5/30/2003Cecilia's mom
5/31/2003Cecilia's mom
6/3/2003This is it!

8/25/20037th Season Premiere
8/28/2003Life Plan vs. Life Reality
9/2/2003Thank goodness for life's little ironies...
9/4/2003Let me write that down...
9/5/2003Let me write that down...
9/8/2003Let me write that down...
9/10/2003Let me write that down...
9/12/2003Let me write that down...
9/15/2003Let me write that down...
9/17/2003Choosing grad schools
9/19/2003Choosing grad schools
9/23/2003Choosing grad schools
9/25/2003Choosing grad schools
9/29/2003Grad School Makes you Dumber
10/1/2003Grad School Makes you Dumber
10/3/2003Grad School Makes you Dumber
10/7/2003This is an automated reply.
10/12/2003Not the same thing as a diploma
10/14/2003Not the same thing as a diploma
10/16/2003We sanitize misery
10/20/2003Online cookie discussion group
10/24/2003Then why do you do it?
10/27/2003Then why do you do it?
10/30/2003Stages of Data Loss
11/3/2003It's bold
11/6/2003Good ol' java
11/13/2003Good ol' java
11/17/2003Was that your mom?
11/19/2003Was that your mom?
11/21/2003Was that your mom?
11/25/2003Emotional Catharsis
11/26/2003Thanksgiving 2003
12/1/2003Sorry, I'm all booked.
12/3/2003Coming back to grad school
12/5/2003Coming back to grad school
12/8/2003Coming back to grad school
12/10/2003And what do YOU want for Xmas?
12/14/2003You better watch out...
12/31/2003New Year Resolutions
1/2/2004New Year Resolutions
1/5/2004New Year Resolutions
1/7/2004Definition of a geek
1/9/2004Definition of a Geek
1/12/2004Mobilize the troops
1/14/2004Mobilize the troops
1/16/2004Mobilize the troops
1/18/2004Deciphering Academese
1/21/2004This better be good
1/23/2004This better be good
1/26/2004PhD Widows
1/28/2004PhD Widows
1/30/2004PhD Widows
2/2/2004PhD Widows
2/4/2004PhD Widows
2/6/2004Things to do...
2/9/2004Yeah right.
2/11/2004Yeah right.
2/13/2004Happy Valentine's
2/16/2004chocolate
2/18/2004chocolate
2/20/2004It's not real life
2/23/2004How to look busy
2/25/2004How to look busy
2/27/2004You want some of this?
3/1/2004By "we" you mean...
3/3/2004My mom says "hi"
3/5/2004Curse you, television
3/8/2004Research Statement
3/10/2004Real grad students are made on the field
3/12/2004Real grad students are made on the field
3/15/2004Real grad students are made on the field
3/17/2004Real grad students are made on the field
3/19/2004His thesis
3/23/2004keyboard imprint
3/24/2004cold
3/26/2004cold
3/29/2004cold
3/31/2004cold
4/2/2004Grad Student Pick up lines
4/5/2004Our work is like this donut
4/7/2004Our work is like this donut
4/9/2004I, Grad Student
4/12/2004I, Grad Student
4/14/2004I, Grad Student
4/16/2004I, Grad Student
4/19/2004I, Grad Student
4/21/2004I, Grad Student
4/23/2004I, Grad Student
4/26/2004Are you busy?
4/28/2004The Nap Bringer
4/30/2004Birthday 2004
5/3/2004What's the rush?
5/5/2004Half-eaten
5/7/2004Every day is a potential weekend
5/10/2004Every day is a potential weekend
5/12/2004Every day is a potential weekend
5/14/2004Who holds real power in the department?
5/17/2004Sorted, collated and stapled
5/19/2004Social
5/21/2004Social
5/24/2004Social
5/26/2004Social
5/28/2004A day in the "Life"
5/31/2004Data: by the numbers
6/2/2004Just a few more minutes...
6/7/2004Office chair balance
6/9/2004Office chair balance
6/11/2004Office chair balance
6/16/2004Office chair balance
6/18/2004Admitting you have a problem
6/21/2004Grades don't matter
6/23/2004Grades don't matter
6/25/2004Another beautiful day...
6/30/2004Another beautiful day...
7/2/2004Hurry up, Daddy!
7/5/2004Hurry up, Daddy!
7/7/2004Hurry up, Daddy!
7/14/2004Hurry up, Daddy!
7/16/2004Pop-up
7/19/2004Conference
7/21/2004Conference
7/23/2004Conference
7/26/2004Postcard
7/28/2004Conference
7/30/2004Conference
8/2/2004Conference
8/4/2004Conference
8/6/2004Conference
8/9/2004Summer days...
8/11/2004Conference
8/13/2004Conference
8/16/2004Conference
8/18/2004Grad Olympics
8/23/2004Conference
8/25/2004Conference
8/27/2004Conference
8/30/2004Conference
9/1/2004Conference

9/3/2004What do you want?
9/6/2004Just thought I'd ask...
9/8/2004The Thesis Zone
9/10/2004The Thesis Zone
9/15/2004The Thesis Zone
9/17/2004The Thesis Zone
9/22/2004The Thesis Zone
9/24/2004Group meeting survival skills
9/27/2004Jetlag
9/29/2004Bookstore
10/1/2004Broke
10/4/2004Undergrad research
10/6/2004Undergrad research
10/8/2004Undergrad research
10/11/2004Undergrad research
10/13/2004Undergrad research
10/15/2004Undergrad research
10/18/2004My neck is killing me
10/20/2004Grad School the Board Game
10/22/2004election
10/25/2004election
10/27/2004election
10/29/2004election
11/1/2004Vote
11/3/2004election
11/5/2004I just got here.
11/8/2004Surprise visit
11/11/2004Surprise visit
11/15/2004Surprise visit, part 3
11/17/2004Surprise visit, part 4
11/24/2004Thanksgiving 2004
11/29/2004A message from Prof. Smith
12/1/2004Australia Time
12/6/2004All around the world
12/8/2004Resignation
12/10/2004Haircut
12/15/2004When's it due?
12/17/2004Christmas Wish
12/22/2004Holiday miracle
1/3/20052005 New Year's delusions
1/5/2005Idea
1/10/2005Paper Review Worksheet
1/13/2005Long day
1/17/2005Optical Delusion
1/19/2005Choice
1/21/2005Choice
1/24/2005Long day
1/26/2005Aldus Slackenerny
1/28/2005Life is tough
1/31/2005Thought balloons
2/3/2005Gossip
2/5/2005Gossip
2/8/2005Gossip 3
2/10/2005Happy Mishaps
2/12/2005pizza
2/15/2005Valentine's 2005
2/17/2005Move on
2/19/2005Move on
2/24/2005Words per minute
2/26/2005Slippery slope
3/1/2005Escape
3/3/2005Thesis Defense
3/5/2005Thesis defense
3/8/2005Thesis Defense
3/10/2005Thesis Defense
3/13/2005Author List
3/16/2005Thesis Defense
3/17/2005Thesis Defense
3/18/2005Thesis Defense
3/23/2005Thesis Defense
3/24/2005Thesis Defense
3/26/2005Thesis Defense
3/29/2005Thesis Defense
3/31/2005Thesis Defense
4/2/2005Thesis Defense
4/5/2005Thesis Defense
4/7/2005Thesis Defense
4/9/2005Thesis Defense... the cliffhanger!
4/12/2005Desk Entropy
4/15/2005Another day
4/19/2005Basement
4/22/2005Grad TV
4/26/2005Grad TV
4/29/2005Grad TV
5/3/2005Addressing Reviewer Comments
5/5/2005Food pyramid
5/10/2005Birthday 2005
5/12/2005Birthday 2005
5/17/2005Birthday 2005
5/20/2005Rude
5/24/2005Out of focus
5/28/2005Meeting of the minds
5/31/2005Well done.
6/2/2005Disturbance in the force
6/6/2005Dress to repress
6/8/2005Revenge of the Smith
6/10/2005Collegiality Decision Chart
6/14/2005Cingradella
6/16/2005Cingradella
6/20/2005Cingradella
6/23/2005Cingradella
6/27/2005Cingradella
6/29/2005Cingradella
7/1/2005Cingradella
7/4/2005Cingradella
7/6/2005Awkward Places
7/11/2005Acapulco
7/14/2005Noon summer sun
7/17/2005Honorary PhD
7/19/2005PhD Zen
7/22/2005Love them, don't try to understand them
7/25/2005Spam
7/27/2005Scorcher
7/29/2005Heat
8/2/2005Meeting with advisor
8/4/2005Meeting with advisor
8/7/2005Meeting with advisor
8/9/2005Meeting with advisor
8/11/2005Meeting with advisor
8/14/2005Advisor on vacation
8/17/2005Lyin' Labmates
8/19/2005Lyin' Labmates
8/22/2005Lyin' Labmates
8/24/2005Lyin' Labmates
8/27/2005Lyin' Labmates
8/30/2005Vortex of unproductivity
9/1/2005Vortex of unproductivity
9/4/2005Vortex of unproductivity
9/7/2005Vortex of unproductivity
9/9/2005Infinite loop
9/13/2005Bad news
9/15/2005Summer's over

9/18/2005What are roommates for?
9/20/2005Squash
9/22/2005Squash
9/26/2005Squash
9/28/2005Squash
10/1/2005field journal: CU Boulder
10/4/2005field journal: SACNAS
10/7/2005Squash
10/9/2005Squash
10/13/2005Save
10/15/2005Save
10/17/2005Save
10/22/2005Fire door sign
10/24/2005Journal - University of Utah
10/25/2005Journal - Rice University
10/28/2005Journal - Georgia Tech
10/31/2005Journal - NC State
11/2/2005Journal - Virginia Tech
11/5/2005Journal - Virginia Commonwealth Univ.
11/9/2005Journal - UVA
11/11/2005Journal - Johns Hopkins U.
11/15/2005Journal - U. Maryland, U. Penn, Drexel U.
11/17/2005Journal - Grad Unions
11/21/2005Gone
11/23/2005Thanksgiving 2005
11/26/2005Tofu Turkey
11/29/2005T-shirt
12/1/2005Campus Map
12/3/2005Journal - Tour Wrap Up
12/6/2005A Smithmas Carol
12/8/2005A Smithmas Carol
12/10/2005A Smithmas Carol
12/13/2005A Smithmas Carol
12/15/2005A Smithmas Carol
12/17/2005A Smithmas Carol
12/20/2005A Smithmas Carol
12/22/2005A Smithmas Carol
12/24/2005A Smithmas Carol
12/27/2005A Smithmas Carol
12/29/2005A Smithmas Carol
12/31/2005A Smithmas Carol
1/3/2005A Smithmas Carol
1/5/2005A Smithmas Carol
1/11/2006Grad Horoscope
1/14/2006Debugging
1/18/2006Pink shorts
1/20/2006How to look busy, part 3
1/23/2006Paternity leave
1/26/2006What's new?
1/28/2006Grown-up
1/31/2006Faculty position
2/5/2006Faculty position
2/8/2006Faculty position
2/10/2006Grown-up conversations
2/14/2006Valentine's day 2006
2/16/2006Inappropriate
2/21/2006Hope
2/24/2006Department Recruitment Statistics
2/26/2006Grad SPAM
3/1/2006How important can it be?
3/4/2006Hiding
3/7/2006Red ink
3/9/2006Friday Night
3/14/2006Friday night
3/17/2006Friday night
3/21/2006Field journal: West Coast schools
3/23/2006Diapers
3/28/2006Group Meeting
3/31/2006Friday night
4/3/2006Grad school
4/5/2006Field journal: Oh Canada!
4/8/2006Field journal: Kansas and Indiana
4/12/2006Food Chain
4/14/2006Taxes
4/17/2006Carded
4/19/2006Phone
4/21/2006Food Chain
4/25/2006Food Chain
4/29/2006Tupperware
5/2/2006Friday night
5/4/2006Friday night
5/8/2006Friday night
5/10/2006Friday night
5/12/2006Piles
5/16/2006The Grand Tour
5/18/2006Long Distance
5/22/2006Writing your Thesis Outline
5/25/2006Long Distance
5/29/2006Long Distance
5/31/2006Your Thesis Title
6/4/2006Anatomy of a group meeting presentation
6/7/2006Grad School Survival Tip #98
6/9/2006Phone message
6/12/2006Freaking out
6/14/2006Fever
6/16/2006Long Distance
6/20/2006Long Distance
6/22/2006Long Distance
6/25/2006Field journal: Schools in Illinois
6/28/2006He'll think I'm an idiot.
6/30/2006field journal: New Hampshire and NJIT
7/4/2006Field journal: Beantown
7/6/2006Second to last draft
7/8/2006Whiz kid magic
7/10/2006Two seconds
7/12/2006Send in the Post-doc
7/15/2006Vacation E-mail
7/18/2006Group meeting?
7/20/2006Away from my desk
7/24/2006Lab Hazard Rating System
7/26/2006Why are you still here?
7/29/2006Why are you still here?
7/31/2006Exploitation
8/2/2006Conference Call
8/4/2006Wait wait!
8/7/2006Wrong direction
8/9/2006Liberal Hippies
8/11/2006The budget what?
8/14/2006See you never
8/16/2006Author Biographies
8/18/2006Beyond the scope of my research
8/21/2006Butterfly Effect
8/23/2006Immersed in thought
8/26/2006Yet another Field Journal entry
8/28/2006Sunset
8/30/2006Aah..!
9/1/2006Its a deal.
9/4/2006Summer is over already!?
9/7/2006Its for their own good
9/10/2006Sluuuurp!
9/12/2006Ode to Autumn
9/14/2006Undergrad Cooties

9/16/2006The Actual Method
9/19/2006The "Carrying Papers" phase
9/21/2006We need to talk.
9/23/2006Arcane Lab Equipment
9/25/2006Arcane lab equipment
9/27/2006Lost
9/29/2006Arcane lab equipment, part 3
10/2/2006Arcane lab equipment, part 4
10/4/2006Arcane lab equipment, part 5
10/6/2006Cost-benefit
10/9/2006Special calibration routine
10/11/2006Air of Unhelpfulness
10/13/2006Immunity Idol
10/16/2006School Newspaper
10/18/2006Eating alone
10/20/2006Plenty of friends
10/23/2006Dr. Frankensmith
10/25/2006Dr. Frankensmith, pt. 2
10/27/2006Dr. Frankensmith, pt. 3
10/30/2006Dr. Frankensmith, pt. 4
11/1/2006Daylight Savings Time
11/3/2006Regular Working Hours
11/6/2006Extra-curricular Activities
11/8/2006Outside interests
11/10/2006Futile Attempts
11/13/2006Eating out
11/15/2006Nobody made coffee?
11/17/2006Revenge of the Lab Patsy
11/20/2006Scooped
11/22/2006Thanksgiving 2006
11/25/2006Tales from the Road - Yee Haw!
11/27/2006Scooped, pt. 2
11/29/2006Department Picture Board
12/1/2006Scooped, pt. 3
12/4/2006Scooped, pt. 4
12/6/2006Scooped, pt. 5
12/8/2006Scooped, pt. 6
12/11/2006Scooped, pt. 7
12/13/2006Holiday Gift Ideas
12/15/2006Dept. Holiday Party
12/18/2006Dept. Holiday Party, pt. 2
12/20/2006Taking the laptop with me
12/22/2006Happy Winter Break 2006
12/29/2006Finished Thesis
1/1/2007New Year 2007
1/3/2007Take it out
1/5/2007Momofuku Ando (1920-2007)
1/8/2007Illegible
1/10/2007Illegible, pt. 2
1/12/2007Draft approved!
1/15/2007Misery Camera
1/17/2007Severe Weather Conditions
1/19/2007Bright and early
1/22/2007In case of fire, save my thesis
1/24/2007Last cookie
1/26/2007Tail end of academic interest
1/29/2007Sabbatical Dreams
1/31/2007Hows it going?
2/2/2007Waiting for Dr. Smith
2/5/2007Drinking from a fire hose
2/7/2007Negation Field
2/9/2007T.A.
2/12/2007Valentine 2007
2/14/2007Field Journal: Cars, robots and sex
2/16/2007Naked
2/19/2007Complicated
2/21/2007Emotions
2/23/2007Time to end this
2/26/2007Time-lapse Montage
2/28/2007Life work
3/2/2007The Joys of LDRs
3/5/2007Jetlag
3/7/2007Gotta be perfect
3/9/2007Proof-read
3/12/2007Where do I sign?
3/14/2007Signatures
3/16/2007Untimely accident
3/19/2007Thesis submission, pt. 1
3/21/2007Sell out
3/23/2007Thesis submission, pt. 2
3/26/2007Follow your dream
3/28/2007Thesis submission, pt. 3
3/30/2007Is this it?
4/2/2007Now what?
4/4/2007Field Journal: Even more schools
4/6/2007Field Jounal: Coming Home
4/9/2007Seminar Bingo
4/11/2007Problems
4/13/2007Procrastination and Taxes
4/16/2007Hokies
4/18/2007Is Prof. Smith there?
4/20/2007Barking up the wrong tree
4/23/2007How well do you know your Advisor?
4/25/2007Pop Clueless
4/27/2007Terrific job
4/30/2007The Lab/Office Couch
5/2/2007E-mail accounts
5/4/2007Usual route
5/7/2007Fortune Cookies
5/9/2007The Lab/Office Fridge
5/14/2007Business Cards
5/16/2007No rest for the weary
5/18/2007Is this even English?
5/21/2007May or may not apply to reality
5/23/2007Typo
5/25/2007Still Lost
5/28/2007Day off
5/30/2007Your Shrinking Sense of Humor
6/4/2007Numb, confused.
6/6/2007Acknowledgments
6/8/2007To you I dedicate this thesis
6/11/2007Fake Window
6/13/2007Broken Heart
6/15/2007Distracted
6/18/2007Simpler
6/20/2007Doctor of Photocopying
6/23/2007Facebook
6/25/2007The Internet
6/27/2007Is it worth it?
6/29/2007Bridge
7/2/2007Decorum
7/4/2007Independence? Day
7/6/2007Tales from the Road
7/9/2007Meh.
7/11/2007What is the point?
7/13/2007Mind over matter
7/16/2007Summer Days
7/18/2007Summer Days
7/20/2007Summer Days
7/23/2007Did you mention my name?
7/25/2007Did you mention my name?
7/27/2007Some helpful advice
7/30/2007Urgent is a relative term
8/1/2007The 3 Times Rule
8/3/2007Turf Wars, pt. 1
8/6/2007Turf Wars, pt. 2
8/9/2007Turf Wars, pt. 3
8/11/2007Turf Wars, pt. 4
8/13/2007Turf Wars, pt. 5
8/15/2007Turf Wars, pt. 6
8/17/2007Turf Wars, pt. 7
8/20/2007Turf Wars Conclusion!
8/22/2007Turf Wars Epilogue
8/24/2007Base 13
8/27/2007Analysis of Value
8/29/2007Laser in use
8/31/2007Humanities
9/3/2007Humanities vs. Social Sciences
9/5/2007Somewhere between never and all the time would be ideal
9/7/2007Career Services
9/10/2007A great time for PhDs in the job market
9/12/2007PhD in obsolescence
9/14/2007Goodbye Summer
9/17/2007Fo Shizzle
9/19/2007Your struggle is my struggle
9/21/2007Doing the impossible
9/24/2007The Lab/Office Snack Co-op
9/26/2007Other forms of jetlag
9/28/2007Toggle the blue switch
10/1/2007Paper Reviewer
10/3/2007More of the same
10/5/2007Appreciation
10/8/2007Appreciation
10/10/2007Appreciation


10/12/2007Fall Break
10/15/2007Keeping your paper within the page limit
10/17/2007Fresh homemade cookies
10/19/2007Kind of a dork
10/22/2007The less you try
10/24/2007Quantum Gradnamics, pt. 1 of 3
10/26/2007Quantum Gradnamics, pt. 2 of 3
10/29/2007Quantum Gradnamics, pt. 3 of 3
10/31/2007Low attendance
11/2/2007Homecoming!
11/5/2007Did you take a look at those slides?
11/7/2007Transferable Skills
11/9/2007Myers-Brigg Test
11/12/2007Impact Factor
11/14/2007Clueless Undergrad
11/16/2007Tales from the Road - Canary Islands
11/19/2007Tales from the Road - Princeton
11/21/2007Seminar Appeal
11/23/2007Health and Safety
11/26/2007Playing your cards right
11/28/2007Who do you know?
11/30/2007Master of the Universe
12/3/2007Home for the holidays?
12/5/2007Double the monitor, double the fun
12/7/2007The Rules of Happy Hour
12/10/2007Schmoozing with your Professor
12/12/2007Schmoozing with your Prof: the rules
12/14/2007Meeting Mrs. Smith
12/17/2007Meeting Mrs. Smith, pt. 2
12/19/2007Mrs. Smith, pt. 3
12/21/2007The 12 Days of Christmas Break
12/24/2007On the 12 Days of Christmas Break my Professor gave to me...
12/26/2007On the 12 Days of Christmas Break my Professor gave to me...
12/28/2007On the 12 Days of Christmas Break my Professor gave to me...
1/2/2008Another year in grad school
1/4/2008Productive procrastination?
1/7/2008Research Diagram/Research Reality
1/9/2008Journal Club
1/11/2008Journal Club, pt. 2
1/14/2008Journal Club, pt. 3
1/16/2008Online PhD!
1/18/2008Post Avant-garde Limmericks
1/21/2008Your Research Interests
1/23/2008Tales from the Road - Tulane pt. 1
1/25/2008Tales from the Road - Tulane pt. 2
1/28/2008A list, plan or outline of things to be done
1/30/2008Why? Why??
2/1/2008Anyone's game
2/4/2008A quiet evening at home
2/6/2008We're all doomed
2/8/2008Crushing the Dream
2/11/2008Downright Pathetic
2/13/2008*%@# Construction
2/15/2008Is that supposed to make me feel better?
2/18/2008You know you've been grading too long when...
2/20/2008Lather, rinse, repeat
2/22/2008A tranquilizer with graphs in it
2/25/2008Sad logic indeed
2/27/2008C-C-Coffee...
2/29/2008All day
3/3/2008It's 3am
3/5/2008The grandeur of his vision
3/7/2008Tales from the road - Wisconsin
3/10/2008What do you want to be?
3/12/2008Do I own one?
3/14/2008We'll take it.
3/17/2008Your life
3/19/2008Interview
3/21/2008Ph.D. Training
3/24/2008Job offer
3/26/2008Ten times
3/28/2008Public schools
3/31/2008Good news
4/2/2008Deadline
4/4/2008Campus architecture
4/7/2008And it only took 1000 strips
4/9/2008Needs work
4/11/2008Celebratory Dance
4/14/2008I knew it
4/16/2008Anything is better than nothing
4/18/2008Don't mention it
4/21/2008Your Profile Picture
4/23/2008Win-Win
4/25/2008Post-doc
4/28/2008Best. Birthday. Ever.
4/30/2008Checking e-mail
5/2/2008Chocolate buzz
5/5/2008Your Life Ambition
5/7/2008Going Green
5/9/2008Now you tell me??
5/12/2008Vicious Cycle
5/14/2008The joys of having an uncommon name
5/16/2008Where do you sit?
5/19/2008Budget surplus
5/21/2008The Lab Hierarchy
5/23/2008Proximity card
5/26/2008Why bother?
5/28/2008Exclusive focus
5/30/2008Fume Hood
6/2/2008Tales from the Road - Don't lick the spoon
6/4/2008When to meet with your advisor
6/6/2008Send me
6/9/2008Visa, pt. 1
6/11/2008Visa, pt. 2
6/13/2008Visa, pt. 3
6/16/2008What do you do?
6/18/2008Visa, pt. 4
6/20/2008Tijuana!
6/23/2008The F-1 Process Explained
6/25/2008How to ruin a grad student's evening
6/27/2008Axis of Misunderestimation
6/30/2008In America, nothing's too difficult
7/2/2008A friend in need
7/4/2008Typical Spectrum of Grad Student Conversations
7/7/2008More elusive than Ninjas?
7/9/2008Ninjas vs. Professors
7/11/2008All units converge
7/14/2008The Tenure Cloud/t
7/16/2008Randomly directed
7/18/2008I wonder what's going on today
7/21/2008Only when you don't need them
7/23/2008Burrosploitation
7/25/2008Average time spent writing one e-mail
7/28/2008Pop Culture!
7/30/2008Potty humor
8/1/2008Unused Icons
8/4/2008The mid-tenure crisis
8/6/2008An impending sense of doom
8/8/2008Real Work
8/11/2008Is that what this was?
8/13/2008It's digital
8/15/2008What you know vs How much you know about it
8/18/2008Professor-Proofing Your Work Area
8/20/2008Emotions
8/22/2008Who am I kidding?
8/25/2008How Professors spend their time
8/27/2008Brilliant
8/29/2008What you brought to seminar
9/1/2008Labor Day
9/3/2008Significant results
9/5/2008A.S.A.P.
9/8/2008Tales from the Road - CERN, pt. 1
9/9/2008Tales from the Road - CERN, pt. 2
9/10/2008Tales from the Road - CERN, pt. 3
9/11/2008Tales from the Road - CERN, pt. 4
9/12/2008Tales from the Road - CERN, pt. 5
9/15/2008I should be done in...
9/17/2008The evolution of Yes

9/19/2008Incoming freshmen
9/22/2008What your vote helps determine
9/24/2008Pet project
9/26/2008Unrelated to Research
9/29/2008The Economic Meltdown
10/1/2008Enrollment vs. Unemployment Rate
10/3/2008Sleep
10/6/2008Mental Preparation
10/8/2008Extension
10/10/2008Undergradese
10/13/2008What's it going to be?
10/15/2008Really cool
10/17/2008Reasons for TA'ing
10/20/2008Academic Salaries
10/22/2008Election obsessed
10/24/2008In it together
10/27/2008Yes and no.
10/29/2008Overheard at the Halloween Party
10/31/2008The lab/office Whiteboard
11/3/2008Hope
11/5/2008How long your Prof. thinks it should take to do something
11/7/20082nd Desserts
11/9/2008Post-election High
11/10/2008I need your help
11/12/2008Roughly speaking
11/14/2008They do care
11/17/2008To Profess
11/19/2008Clever Acronyms
11/21/2008The Post-doctoral Sense, pt 1
11/24/2008The Post-doctoral Sense, pt. 2
11/26/2008The Post-doctoral Sense, pt. 3
11/28/2008Tech support
12/1/2008The Post-doctoral Sense, pt. 4
12/3/2008The Post-doctoral Sense, pt. 5
12/5/2008The Post-doctoral Sense, pt. 6
12/8/2008Your Impact Factor
12/10/2008Detailed response
12/12/2008A not-entirely-fictional letter from a University President
12/15/2008Other measures of academic productivity: The Teaching Index
12/17/2008Now that I actually read it
12/19/2008Other measures of academic productivity: Invited Talks
12/22/2008A Christmas Song (PhD Version)
12/31/2008New Year 2009
1/2/2009In a funk
1/5/2009Holidays grace period
1/7/2009Drama!
1/9/2009Categorical Opposition
1/12/2009Not just a de Certeau Tactic
1/14/2009Abstract Mad Libs
1/16/2009Tough economic times
1/19/2009What did you want to tell me?
1/21/2009Permission
1/23/2009Something personal
1/26/2009Brain on a stick
1/28/2009A very serious matter
1/30/2009Wedding planning
2/2/2009Not a good sign
2/4/2009Tajel getting married, pt. 1
2/6/2009Tajel getting married, pt. 2
2/9/2009Tajel getting married, pt. 3
2/11/2009Tajel getting married, pt. 4
2/13/2009Tajel getting married, pt. 5
2/16/2009Tajel got married
2/18/2009Seen on campus
2/20/2009Not happy
2/23/2009How to turn your CV into a Resume
2/25/2009The Origin
2/27/2009Nights and weekends
3/2/2009Guess what?
3/4/2009Sole provider
3/6/2009Clarity and depth
3/9/2009Beware the Profzi Scheme
3/11/2009Trick question
3/13/2009Tales from the Road - Sustainability
3/16/2009Deciding what to wear
3/18/2009Laid off!
3/20/2009Sugar Daddy
3/23/2009Ifs, buts or maybes
3/25/2009First name basis
3/27/2009First name basis, pt.2
3/30/2009What to call your Professor
4/1/2009First-name basis, pt. 3
4/3/2009Best Buddies
4/6/2009If TV Science was more like REAL Science
4/8/2009Lao-Tze
4/10/2009Single keystroke
4/13/2009Cut and paste
4/15/2009Not a good sign either
4/17/2009Deciding what to wear, pt. 2
4/20/2009Tales from the Road - MD Anderson Cancer Center
4/22/2009Admin Assistants Week
4/24/2009Paste together
4/27/2009Wah wah wah
4/29/2009Happy Birthday
5/1/2009The Underlying question
5/4/2009Your Computer Desktop
5/6/2009Did you get it?
5/8/2009Budget cuts
5/11/2009Humanities hearing
5/13/2009Boorish Barbarians!
5/15/2009Price tag on the human soul
5/18/2009Science News Cycle
5/20/2009Research topics guaranteed to be picked up by the news media
5/22/2009Meta Comics
5/25/2009Honeymoon
5/27/2009OMG! ROTFL!!
5/29/2009Fantasy Island
6/1/2009Paradise
6/3/2009Finals Week
6/5/2009Bad reflection
6/8/2009You may find it hard to believe
6/10/2009Borrowing
6/12/2009Grooming vs. Time in Grad School
6/15/2009Film Crew, pt. 1
6/17/2009Film Crew, pt. 2
6/19/2009Film Crew, pt. 3
6/22/2009Film Crew, pt. 4
6/24/2009Film Crew, pt. 5
6/26/2009Film Crew, pt. 6
6/29/2009Film Crew, Epilogue
7/1/2009I'm sure of it
7/3/2009Proving a negative
7/6/2009Is your research Impossible?
7/8/2009Conversation Impossible
7/10/2009The wrath
7/13/2009Great Tweets of Science
7/15/2009Nature vs. Science, pt. 1
7/17/2009Nature vs. Science, pt. 2
7/20/2009Nature vs. Science, pt. 3
7/22/2009Coming back from vacation
7/24/2009Definition of Vacation
7/27/2009Official Guidelines
7/29/2009Honeymoonteering
7/31/2009Vacation Justification
8/3/2009Really?
8/5/2009Nature vs. Science, pt. 4
8/7/2009What your Prof. read
8/10/2009Where would I go?
8/12/2009Best time
8/14/2009Post hoc vs. Post-doc
8/17/2009Sleeping in
8/19/2009The Rat Race
8/21/2009Unemployment vs. Graduate Stipends
8/24/2009Good time for Self-reflection
8/26/2009Off to work
8/28/2009Perils of Summer
8/31/2009Peak Productivity
9/2/2009Quid Prof Quo
9/4/2009In case of emergency
9/7/2009Leftovers
9/9/2009The Law of Free Food
9/11/2009Left of leftovers


9/14/2009Annual Grad/Faculty Softball Game, pt. 1
9/16/2009High stakes Softball
9/18/2009Softball: younger and faster
9/21/2009Annual Grad/Faculty Softball Game, pt. 4
9/23/2009Softball! Pt. 5
9/25/2009Softball! Pt. 6!
9/28/2009Vacation v. Stress
9/30/2009If you write it, he will sign it
10/2/2009Softball, pt. 8!
10/5/2009Man oh man!
10/7/2009Slide!!!
10/9/2009Softball, the thrilling conclusion
10/12/2009Core Principles
10/14/2009Phone call
10/16/2009Parental Expectations vs. Time
10/19/2009Babies
10/21/2009Feeling defensive
10/23/2009And after that?
10/26/2009Detained! Part 1
10/28/2009Detained! Part 2
10/31/2009Detained! Part 3
11/2/2009Mike's motto
11/4/2009Command structure
11/6/2009Mundane details
11/9/2009Brain saver
11/11/2009Experience
11/13/2009I am going home
11/16/2009Buzzwords
11/18/2009Flush
11/20/2009Something important
11/23/2009Thanksgiving
11/25/2009Federal Mandate
11/27/2009Professor-Approved Holidays
11/30/2009Joking
12/2/2009Ready, set...
12/7/2009Grad Carols
12/9/2009Checking out
12/11/2009Christmas papers
12/14/2009Close
12/16/2009Year-end accounting
12/18/2009Should haves
12/21/2009Chipping in
1/11/2010Piled Higher and Diapers
1/13/2010Cooing
1/15/2010Parent hooding
1/18/2010ASAP!
1/20/201063% of internet readers will like this comic
1/25/2010Cafeteria Potential Well
1/27/2010Procrastigal son
1/29/2010Cecilia's Adventures in Thesisland, Pt. 1
2/1/2010Cecilia in Thesisland, Pt. 2: Down the raw bit code
2/3/2010Cecilia in Thesisland, Pt. 3: To be sure, this is generally what happens when you think
2/5/2010Cecilia in Thesisland, Pt. 4: Follow the Wait Habit
2/8/2010Cecilia in Thesisland, Pt. 5: The Cheshire Professor
2/10/2010Valentine's gift ideas
2/12/2010Cecilia in Thesisland, Pt. 6: Not quite right
2/15/2010Cecilia in Thesisland, Pt. 7: The Caterpillar's Advice
2/17/2010Cecilia in Thesisland, Pt. 8: The Mad Slacker
2/19/2010The Red Thesis Committee Member
2/22/2010Cecilia in Thesisland, Pt. 10: Who stole the charts?
2/24/2010Cecilia in Thesisland, Pt. 11: The Pilcrow and the Mock Ending
3/1/2010How Grad School is just like Kindergarten
3/3/2010Common Sleep Disorders
3/5/2010Moesday
3/8/2010The 2397th Annual Academic Awards
3/10/2010Campus Day of Action
3/12/2010The Rising Cost of Public Higher Education
3/15/2010Contes de la route: Equal Opportunity
3/17/2010Contes de la route: Equal Opportunity Pt. 2
3/19/2010The Box
3/22/2010Interdiscipline
3/24/2010Marriage v. The Ph.D.
3/26/2010Emoti-less-con
3/29/2010The Night Shift
3/31/2010Ode-ious to Spring
4/2/2010HEPA Help
4/5/2010A Topical Atopy
4/7/2010Allergy Season
4/9/2010Sterile Environment
4/12/2010Dork Barrel Spending
4/14/2010Two cents on the dollar
4/16/2010Seasoned with salt
4/19/2010Dangerous question
4/21/2010Granted for taken
4/26/2010Father-Daughter Time
4/28/2010Lost no more..?
4/30/2010Tenured vs. Untenured
5/3/2010Sentences
5/5/2010Tales from the Road - New Mexico Tech and the VLA
5/7/2010Tales from the Road: New Mexico Tech and the VLA, Part 2
5/10/2010What?
5/12/2010Ode to the L.A.S.E.R.
5/14/2010Tales from the Laser Beam
5/17/2010What happened to Tuesday?
5/19/2010Grading Rubric
5/21/2010If only
5/24/2010Grading Methods
5/26/2010Late submissions
5/28/2010A story in file names
5/31/2010Keep it up.
6/2/2010Special Moves
6/4/2010Recovery Plan
6/7/2010On Freedom
6/9/2010Nothing to fear
6/11/2010World Cup vs. PhD
6/14/2010Remember?
6/16/2010Um...
6/18/2010If you can't wake them
6/21/2010Yawn
6/23/2010To 'Do'
6/25/2010Call for Papers!
6/28/2010Implausible
6/30/2010Status Uptake
7/2/2010Holiday!
7/5/2010Meat structure
7/7/2010Weapon of Mass Cuteness
7/9/2010Take away
7/12/2010Drawing the line
7/14/2010Better for whom
7/16/2010Incentives
7/19/2010Dr. No
7/21/2010Tales from the Road - Comic-Con!!
7/23/2010Tales from the Road - Comic-Con Pt. 2
7/26/2010Tales from the Road - Comic-Con Pt. 3
7/28/2010Extraneous
7/30/2010Too due list
8/2/2010Denial
8/4/2010Write in Pieces
8/6/2010Localized Repulsor
8/9/2010The Repulsor Field Explained
8/11/2010The 2am Dilemma
8/13/2010Your Math Skills
8/16/2010LolGrads
8/18/2010Favored to lose
8/20/2010Instantaneous Property
8/23/2010Lame
8/25/2010Lab coat rationale
8/27/2010Stylin'
8/30/2010Lab Coat Rack

9/1/2010You autumn leave
9/3/2010Planning
9/6/2010Upgrade
9/8/2010Fall outbreak
9/10/2010Beard migration
9/13/2010Never Left
9/15/201020 minutes
9/17/2010Abbreviated version
9/20/2010Take five
9/22/2010Appreciation
9/24/2010As if
9/27/2010Tales from the Road - The NMSU Chile Pepper Institute
9/29/2010Snooze
10/1/2010Brain-body problem
10/4/2010Tales from the Road - New Mexico State U., Part 2
10/6/2010The Grad Student Brain
10/8/2010The Sub-Unconscious
10/11/2010Survey says...
10/13/2010Good results
10/15/2010Reboot
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10/25/2010Draft dodging
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12/8/2010How the Grad T.A. Stole Christmas, prelude
12/10/2010How the Grad T.A. Stole Christmas, Part 1
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2/23/2011Edition
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7/29/2013Confession
7/31/2013The Socrastic Method
8/2/2013Faculty Encounter
8/5/2013Why Bees Are Important - Ph.Detours Ep. 9
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8/23/2013It's an Odd Job
8/26/2013Hobo with a Ph.D.
8/28/2013Search Results
8/30/2013How was your summer?
9/2/2013The Digital Humanities

9/4/2013Standards
9/6/2013Seminar Food
9/16/2013The Cult of Academia
9/18/2013Should you ask a question during Seminar?
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9/25/2013The Search for New Antibiotics
9/27/2013Your Graduation
9/30/2013Taking work home
10/2/2013Government Shutdown
10/4/2013Office Hours
10/7/2013Post-Doctor Who, Pt. 1
10/9/2013Post-Doctor Who, Pt. 2
10/11/2013Post-Doctor Who, Pt. 3
10/14/2013Zombie Corals - Ph.Detours Ep. 10
10/16/2013Post-Doctor Who, Pt. 4
10/18/2013Believe it or Don't!
10/21/2013Time
10/23/2013The True Pace of Research
10/25/2013Trending
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11/1/2013Peak Panic
11/4/2013A Guide to Academic Relationships
11/6/2013Convenience
11/8/2013Spousal Ignorance
11/18/2013The Club
11/20/2013What to do when you're overwhelmed
11/22/2013What to do when you're overwhelmed, Part 2
11/25/2013What is Aging?
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12/2/2013Your Academic Forecast
12/4/2013Have you heard?
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12/9/2013The Fish Detective
12/11/2013No use
12/13/2013The List
12/16/2013Taking stock
12/18/2013Looking forward
12/20/2013Proof Santa doesn't Exist
12/31/2013A Brief Interview with Stephen Hawking
1/3/2014Grad School New Year Resolutions
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1/13/2014Professed?
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1/17/2014The Edge
1/20/2014What grades really mean
1/22/2014It's time.
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2/3/2014Amount of food you eat out of a bowl
2/10/2014Quantum Entanglement Explained
2/12/2014A Research Valentine
2/14/2014Hypothetically Speaking
2/17/2014Jerusalem Explained
2/19/2014The Higgs Boson Re-Explained
2/24/2014Academics, Politics and Identity
2/28/2014Open Sesame
3/3/2014Magic Code
3/10/2014Comfort Zone
3/12/2014Scratch
3/17/2014Programming for Non-Programmers
3/19/2014Cosmic Inflation Explained
3/26/2014Not Pretty
3/31/2014Check it
4/2/2014Neil Armstrong on Being a Nerd
4/4/2014So Typical
4/7/2014Announcement
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4/14/2014Talking to Mom
4/18/2014Productivity
4/21/2014An Honest Methods Section
4/25/2014Badge pass
4/28/2014Appetite
4/30/2014The Word Symposium
5/5/2014What to call your Academic Event
5/7/2014Frozen
5/12/2014It's official
5/14/2014A Real-Life Dr. Who
5/16/2014Remote Advisor
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5/21/2014Academic Guilt
5/23/2014Done
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6/2/2014Eager Leader
6/4/2014Art vs. Research
6/6/2014Weather Check
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6/11/2014The Turing Test
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6/16/2014Summer Plans
6/18/2014A Guide to Academic Regalia
6/20/2014Academically Correct
6/23/2014The Spiral
6/25/2014Leading Expert
6/27/2014The Value of Research
6/30/2014What you think of your Professor
7/2/2014For the Birds - 2 Minute Thesis
7/4/2014That Moment.
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7/9/2014Professor Vacation
7/11/2014Who needs a vacation?
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7/28/2014The Neurobiology of Writing
8/6/2014Do you have a minute?
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8/20/2014Why Academics Really Use Twitter
8/27/2014A Guide to Academic Neologisms
9/1/2014Why Postdocs are always sweating
9/3/2014WRITING.
9/8/2014Your Secret Chocolate Stashes
9/10/2014Academic Auto-Pilot
9/15/2014Statistics!
9/17/2014Postdoc Appreciation
9/22/2014Google Search Suggestions

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10/1/2014What are we made of?
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10/6/2014Inevitable
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10/15/2014Teeming with Meetings
10/17/2014Tenure Means
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10/22/2014Written Estimate
10/29/2014Not write
10/31/2014The Oxford Comma and Other Academic Punctuation Marks
11/3/2014Research is complicated
11/7/2014The Research Cycle
11/12/2014The Academic Review Process
11/14/2014Help!
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11/21/2014Research I Problems
11/26/2014How to tell it's time to graduate
11/28/2014How to read a Professor's Door
12/1/2014Quantum Knots
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12/22/2014Holidata Wish
12/24/2014Christmas Morning
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3/2/2015Giant Leap
3/4/2015A friendly reminder
3/11/2015Feeling sick
3/13/2015Sick Day
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4/1/2015Srsly, this happens.
4/8/2015Acknowledgments
4/13/2015Monday Motivation
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4/22/2015How To Write An E-mail To Your Instructor Or Teaching Assistant
5/1/2015Amount of Time Spent Writing your Thesis
5/4/2015Overtime
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5/11/2015So wrong.
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5/18/2015What to call yourself in Academia
5/22/2015The Doctoral Dilemma
5/27/2015Academic Contradictions
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6/3/2015Kickstarter Doodles
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9/11/2015Self-Reference
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10/7/2015The Guilt Timer
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12/2/2015How Professors are just like Jedi
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9/19/2016The Point
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4/21/2017Professor Chat
4/24/2017Meeting comprehension
4/28/2017Automatic Reply
5/3/2017Recursive
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8/28/2017Ritual
9/1/2017Surveys
9/6/2017Page Limits

9/13/2017Impostor Attack
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9/27/2017Impostor, Pt. 3
10/2/2017Impostor, Pt. 4
10/4/2017Signs you're ready to graduate
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10/23/2017End Times
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5/2/2018Open Questions
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5/25/2018Summer
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