Life is tough and then you graduate: The second Piled Higher and Deeper Comic Strip Collection 
asked by runabout on November 9, 2006 12:35 PM
This book is the second collection of the popular comic strip Piled Higher and Deeper, which chronicles life (or the lack thereof) in grad school. Includes the popular strip series "Procrastin-X", "Grad school makes you dumber", "The Thesis Zone" and Mike Slackenerny's improbable thesis defense. Bonus features include never-before published strips, author notes and a foreword by Karl Marx. Whether you managed to escape grad school, are struggling through it, or are thinking of applying to it, Piled Higher and Deeper will have you lauging and crying at the same time. Piled Higher and Deeper is published online at www.phdcomics.com, where it receives over 1.8 million page views a month from grad students all over the world.
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These comics are abolutely hilarious and a true representation of life in grad school. Slackerny and the crew saw me through many a dark hour of slugging away through "The Thesis". Go ahead and buy the books and quit wasting time on the lab computer reading these strips and get back to your research!
reviewed by iconfess on November 12, 2006 5:55 AM
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That's the second book from Cham, and like the first one it catches all the aspects of a doctoral student. It's sad, it's hilarious, it's ironic, and it's so doctoral! I recognize myself in this.
If you have the first one, this is a must.
If you have the first one, this is a must.
reviewed by potato on November 22, 2006 10:17 PM
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I've left grad school for x years now but am still in academia. It's a fantastic read, and I still split my sides recalling what my years in grad school were like.
Prof Smith & Co provide me with plenty of ideas for what to inflict on 'my' grad students! Just kidding of course - it's a great reminder not to make the grad students under me suffer too much! :-)
Prof Smith & Co provide me with plenty of ideas for what to inflict on 'my' grad students! Just kidding of course - it's a great reminder not to make the grad students under me suffer too much! :-)
reviewed by vcedwards on November 23, 2006 5:57 AM
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It's pretty common to see workplaces with funny and topical comic strips taped to desks and common spaces. There's always some Far Side or Dilbert cartoon that just seems to strike a chord with your work, like it was written for you. If you're in graduate school, every single strip by Jorge Cham is like that. Strips from this book are printed out and stuck on the walls of my lab, and every other lab in my neuroscience department for that matter. Not only is this stuff funny, but it's so painfully real, and it helps to know that the struggles we face are shared by the rest of the graduate world, regardless of their discipline. Buy it for someone in grad school! They'll think it was written just for them!
reviewed by pauls on November 29, 2006 4:40 PM
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Jorge Cham and his PHD Comics are for graduate students what Scott Adams and his Dilbert cartoons are for the cubicle-dweller white-collars of the corporate life. It's as (painfully) real and funny as it can get.
This collection of his strips, which is also available at his website (www.phdcomics.com), is a fantastic gift for your grad student friend, or to their "PhD widow" (a.k.a. spouse) -- to show them that there are other widows like them throughout the world.
I'm Brazilian, and those strips are as true in my country as in the US, and I believe as in every other university around the planet!
This collection of his strips, which is also available at his website (www.phdcomics.com), is a fantastic gift for your grad student friend, or to their "PhD widow" (a.k.a. spouse) -- to show them that there are other widows like them throughout the world.
I'm Brazilian, and those strips are as true in my country as in the US, and I believe as in every other university around the planet!
reviewed by runaway on November 29, 2006 5:10 PM