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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...