Piled Higher and Deeper: A Graduate Student Comic Strip Collection

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Summary: Best gift for your professor
Review: It was the best gift for my professor! So I gave it to him right after the graduation ceremony :) These comics are great. They assured me that the experiences are common and I was not going crazy (or I was :)) during the last stages of my PhD!

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Summary: Work of Art
Review: Its a shame this comic isn't right next to Garfield in every paper!

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Summary: Must read comics for any postgrad student
Review: Jorge Cham's comics strip about graduate students has a big following on the web for the last 4 years. Finally he's published it in a book so we own it on our bookshelves. A very funny and witty view on postgraduate life. It always surprises me how similar grad school is even I'm half a world a away from the US.

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Summary: Read this before, during and after.
Review: Jorge Cham's incisive vision lets us laugh at the petty triumphs, carefully cultivated neuroses and mild paranoia that flavour graduate life. This helps getting through it, believe me.

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Summary: PhD - piled high and deeper is painfully funny
Review: ok, so it may not be so funny if you haven't done the post graduate life avoidance routine, but if you have, it's so funny it hurts. it's the perfect primer for those considering an advanced degree!

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Summary: Collected at last!
Review: Piled Higher and Deeper granted me hours and hours of joy
during my stay as a grad student. Unfortunately it was
available only on the web, which encouraged me to read it
when I should have been doing my research. If you are a
graduate student in engineering you _will_ enjoy this collection.
Buy the book. Read it at home. Do your research in your office. =)

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Summary: Humorous salve for the grad-student soul
Review: Piled Higher and Deeper helped me get through graduate school. They say depressed people make the best comedians -- and who is more depressed than the average grad student?

There are many rolling-on-the-floor hilarious moments, but for the most part Ph.D. is more of a gentle tease on grad school, which is often just the sort of thing you need when you start taking the difficulties of grad school a little too seriously.

(Oh, and yes, I did finish my Ph.D., in philosophy, and am now happily employed. I still read Ph.D. every week.)

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Summary: Piled Higher and Deeper: A Graduate Student Comic Strip Coll
Review: The insight was hilarious. If you like this book, you'll love Playing the Game: The Streetsmart Guide to Graduate School.

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Summary: The funny side of grad school. Brilliant
Review: This has to be one of the funniest and perhaps only strip on graduate school. It has even helped me to loosen up and start enjoying the whole grad school experience.

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Summary: Graduate student life is not an oxymoron
Review: This is a unique collection of hilarious comic strips about graduate school life drawn by Jorge Cham, a genuine PhD student at Stanford University. Anyone who has ever been or known a graduate student struggling towards the completion of his or her thesis will recognize and appreciate the characters and scenarios herein. And although there are a number of inside jokes, and knowing the real-life inspirations for some of the characters certainly added to my personal enjoyment, most of the strips reflect the universal absurdities of the grad school experience rather than being specific to Stanford students. Highly recommended!