Why am I still in academia?

[Melalvai]

anyone currently in grad school who needs moral support -or- anyone considering grad school and wants a realistic idea of what it's like should read phd comics:
www.phdcomics.com

...and now i'm going to procrastinate working on a fellowship application by reading bike snob and TE posts :-)

I heard that Jorge Cham was astounded and amused because people told him that his comics actually inspired them to GO to grad school. Hello?? He's realistically depicting grad school as living hell. This is inspiring?

I am glad to see he's added a postdoc to the cast (Mike Slackernerny's new job). I was afraid postdoc life was too depressing to make fun of.

I find it interested that Micella de Whyse (blogger on Sciencecareers.org) is leaving her first postdoc and academia right now.