Life is tough and then you graduate: The second Piled Higher and Deeper Comic Strip Collection [Paperback]

Jorge Cham (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 18, 2005

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.

Editorial Reviews

Review

You’ll laugh and wince at this smart comic strip, which feels your pain, your panic... and your departmental politics. --USATODAY.com, June 2004

(Praise for Piled Higher and Deeper) "Hilarious." --The Chronicle of Higher Education chronicle.com, August 2003

"Jorge Cham makes the daily grind just a bit more tolerable" --Stanford Magazine, July 2004

About the Author

Jorge Cham escaped with a PhD in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University, and is now an Instructor at Caltech.

Product Details

• Paperback: 152 pages
• Publisher: Piled Higher and Deeper Publishing (April 18, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0972169520
• ISBN-13: 978-0972169523
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 7.4 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 10.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (26 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #59,359 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Dark humor for graduate students, by a graduate student, March 9, 2006

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Muan (NY) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Life is tough and then you graduate: The second Piled Higher and Deeper Comic Strip Collection (Paperback)

There is scarcely a doubt that graduate school can be frustrating. Much as Dilbert captures such absurdities in the workplace, Jorge captures absurdities in the life of a few average grads. The boss is replaced by the advisor. And the cubicle by a ... cubicle.

If you have been in a graduate program, or have suffered through a "close" friend the trials and tribulations of being in one, you will come to love Jorge's sadly accurate description of our lives.

Highly recommended for honesty and wit.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Hilarious, Must Have, November 6, 2006

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Matthew McBroom (Texas, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Life is tough and then you graduate: The second Piled Higher and Deeper Comic Strip Collection (Paperback)

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!

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars PhD Life, sad but true! Part 2, August 28, 2006

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Franco Milicchio "Sensei" - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Life is tough and then you graduate: The second Piled Higher and Deeper Comic Strip Collection (Paperback)

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.