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Academic Stimulus Package (Piled Higher & Deeper)

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If you enjoyed the previous books don't hesitate in buying it, this is better.

I just read this book and I may say this is the best of the four books not only because of the quality (it is full colored and the kind of paper is better) but because of better jokes: Mike looking for a real job, Cecilia and her T.A. section, the eternal life in the lab (there is this remarkable joke about The Lab Hierarchy which, in my opinion, is the closest to reality of the book) and Tajel with a surprising romance.

This book also includes a game to play Bingo in an Academic Seminar, a very original idea for enjoying with your research group in some workshop you don't like.

I have the whole collection, and read it online at least once a week. It's scary because it's such a true depiction of grad school, life in research lab, and academia in general. Read them all and you'll see the progression in style. Cheap and a good laugh. Do not show to your grad students...

If you are a grad student, you definitely should read this book. It is all about your life in an humor style. You will love it. I strongly recommmend this book to all new grads, as an introduction for their future lives.

I could be definitely biased, but that's a real-world experience that every grad student could have in grad school, and see it written about her/him in this book. An amazing piece of work, indeed.

I discovered Piled Higher and Deeper and recognized that, behind the humor, very little (other than the technology) had changed since my own days in graduate school more years ago than I will admit to in public. I'm hooked on the strip and even my son (who is now 13-1/2) has been hooked on it since he was 10. I hope that this doesn't discourage him from pursuing a graduate education.

This collection picks up where the last one left off, with Mike Slackenerny a brand new Ph.D. and overqualified for any job other than working as a postdoctoral research associate and ending with Tajel's wedding. It has the added benefit of being printed in color (at last!)

The strip is intelligent, funny and an accurate comical take on what it means to spend what may be the prime of your life still in school. You can laugh and cry at the same time.

These comics are fantastic. You need to be a PhD student yourself to appreciate the humor.

This collection is great. Just as the precedent "PhD: The comic" books, it is actually a collection of the strips published on thousands of college newspapers around the world, but it is great. Also, this one center a little less on the engineers and pure scientists, and makes fun of some other social sciences too. A fun read... VERY FUNNY!

I recommend this book and its prequels for anyone who is considering going to Grad School