Piled Higher and Deeper: A Graduate Student Comic Strip Collection

Piled Higher and Deeper: A Graduate Student Comic Strip Collection Review

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If you're the cash crop in a cube farm, then Scott Adams has you covered. But, if you live the life of a grad student, foraging for free food and teetering daily between discovery and despair, then Jorge Cham narrates your life. His academics, both incipient (students) and entrenched (professors) ring true. So does the bizarrely accelerated career of a student, going from a cute little baby Master's student to a grizzled Ph.D. in just a few short years.

I don't know whether humanities students will recognize themselves and their culture, but those of us in or from hard science studies will understand just about everything. A few Stanford specifics bring this up short of a truly universal experience - but they bring to mind the specifics of my school, so maybe they aren't so far off the mark.

The only problem with reading this book is that I now have to go get the others. Darn you, Dr. Cham, for making me spend my money that way!

- wiredweird

Piled Higher and Deeper: A Graduate Student Comic Strip Collection Feature

• ISBN13: 9780972169509
• Condition: NEW
• Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.

A collection of the first five years of "Piled Higher and Deeper," a comic strip about life (or lack thereof) in graduate school, as it originally appeared in Stanford University's "The Stanford Daily Newspaper" and online at phd.stanford.edu.

"Piled Higher and Deeper" the comic strip is currently read by grad students from over 300 universities and from around the world.

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Customer Reviews

Disturbingly good! - C. C. Pellegrini - Brazil
Presently I am a professor in a federal university in my home country (Brazil) and not so long ago I was a grad student just like the characters of the strip. Most of the stories are so disturbingly true that it is difficult to decide if you laugh or cry upon the memories. But most of the times I laughed. The author really got a good impression of the academic life. Now the strip is a must-read among me and my scientist colleagues and mandatory for the students I supervise who, for some reason, tend to laugh nervously while reading. Excellent.

Amazingly insightful - Vivek Gupta -
As a now part-time, but previously full-time graduate student in a doctoral program I can say this is an amazing piece of work. It is incredibly insightful and provides a great deal of humor in what can sometimes be a tough situation. I have totally enjoyed this series online and will be buying the other collections as well.


Jun 26, 2010 23:06:06