Scooped! The Third Piled Higher and Deeper Comic Strip Collection [Perfect Paperback]

Jorge Cham (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: May 14, 2007

The third 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 "How to write your Thesis title", "The Scientific Method vs. The Actual Method", "Valentine Gift Ideas for your Advisor" and many more. 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.

Editorial Reviews

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

Use this comic for procrastination or decompression, as you see fit. --Paul Smaglik, The Journal Nature nature.com

You'll laugh and wince at Jorge Cham's smart comic strip, which feels your pain, your panic, your coffee addiction... and your departmental politics. --USATODAY.com

About the Author

Jorge Cham obtained his PhD in Mechanical Engineering at Stanford University, and subsequently worked as an Instructor and Researcher at Caltech. Piled Higher and Deeper is published online at www.phdcomics.com and student newspapers across the world.

Product Details

• Perfect Paperback: 160 pages
• Publisher: Piled Higher and Deeper Publishing; 1st edition (May 14, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0972169539
• ISBN-13: 978-0972169530
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 7.4 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #113,690 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Yet another funny look at grad school, May 22, 2007

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Dr R M. Siegfried (Garden City, NY) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Scooped! The Third Piled Higher and Deeper Comic Strip Collection (Perfect Paperback)

I discovered Jorge Cham's online comic strip (which also appears in many campus newspapers) by accident and took to it immediately. Despite being out of graduate school a couple of decades, it all rings true (with a small exaggeration here and there). I bought the first two collections and my son grabbed them and devoured them. At eleven, he knows more about qualifying exams than Regents' exams (which high school students have to take here in New York), which is a little scary.

This book is Cham's third collection and he still does it. The comics are original, the art is quite good and he threw in his illustrated journal from his tours around the country.

There are only two drawbacks to the strip: it can scare you out of going to grad school and if you do go, reading it can occupy so much of your time that it will delay your completing your thesis.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Better artwork, still hilarious!, September 17, 2008

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Davide V. (Italy) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Scooped! The Third Piled Higher and Deeper Comic Strip Collection (Perfect Paperback)

PhD comics is a must-have for all graduate students, and is enjoyable even if your experience in academic life is limited.

With this third volume, the artwork gets better and better, even though the b/w printing doesn't do justice to the online full color versions.

With Mike's graduation in volume 2, his appearances get less frequent, which is a pity.

The final part of the volume includes the "tales from the field" account of the author's promotional tour spanning more than 50 universities.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Still brilliant, April 10, 2010

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wiredweird "wiredweird" (Earth, or somewhere nearby) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Scooped! The Third Piled Higher and Deeper Comic Strip Collection (Perfect Paperback)

If you are (or were) a grad student: this is (or was) your life. Cham captures the trials of adult studentdom with warmth and startling precision. That existence combines many elements. Chronic cashlessness comes high on that list, leading to things like a diet of "what's on sale" ramen and goodies scrounged from snack trays at meetings. Academic esoterica run a close second, bringing an array of feelings that most people don't associate with the coolly intellectual pursuit of science. Somewhere up there we find the usual frustrations that come from a social life largely foiled by the first two.

Cham ends this study with a cartoon diary of his book-signing tour. Of course, the students themselves came out in droves to support the resident artist in their wide-spread community. Wives and husbands came too, and left with the startling realization that they're not alone, that others have grad students just as strange as their own. I guess that's really what distinguishes Ph&D from other anthropological studies like Dilbert: the real warmth and sympathy that come through, even while Cham invites us to have a good laugh at ourselves.

-- wiredweird