ph.d.-comics talk

I just come back from a talk by Jorge Cham. This is the guy who writes the PhD comics. Great talk. And probably the one in which I laughed most. Particularly shocking was the comparison between an average grad student salary of $14,055 per year (in California) and a salary of a McDonald's worker of $14,040 per year. I knew that we don't get much, but this little ... "You know, you can survive — somehow ..."