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Piled Higher and Deeper #3
PhD Chapter 3: Scooped!
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.
160 pages, Paperback
First published May 14, 2007
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About the author
Jorge Cham
38 books210 followersJorge Cham is a Chinese-Panamanian post-doc best known for his popular newspaper and web comic strip Piled Higher and Deeper (PhD Comics). He first started drawing PhD Comics as a graduate student at Stanford University, and has since been syndicated in several university newspapers and in three published book collections.
Jorge Cham received his Bachelor's degree from Georgia Tech in 1997, and earned a PhD in mechanical engineering from Stanford. He subsequently worked at Caltech as an instructor and as a researcher on neural prosthetics.
In 2005, Cham began an invited speaking tour of over 80 major universities delivering his talk titled "The Power of Procrastination". In this lecture, Cham talks about his experiences creating the comic strip and examines the sources of grad students' anxieties. He also explores the guilt and the myths associated with procrastination and argues that in many cases it is actually a good thing.
Jorge Cham received his Bachelor's degree from Georgia Tech in 1997, and earned a PhD in mechanical engineering from Stanford. He subsequently worked at Caltech as an instructor and as a researcher on neural prosthetics.
In 2005, Cham began an invited speaking tour of over 80 major universities delivering his talk titled "The Power of Procrastination". In this lecture, Cham talks about his experiences creating the comic strip and examines the sources of grad students' anxieties. He also explores the guilt and the myths associated with procrastination and argues that in many cases it is actually a good thing.
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May 6, 2024
Chapter 3 of PhD covers years 2005-2007, with the back matter reporting on Dr. Cham's college tour of 60 campuses (pp. 133-154). The college tour section is interesting to see the author's illustrations change over time in a manner similar to chapter 1 as he learns a new format and story telling technique.
This is a story of the long journey to the special diploma via making a huge (or minuscule but at least unique, mostly, unless you are scooped and then pivoting on the fly unless you discover they didn't really do your work, probably) addition to humanity's knowledge and, for some of our intrepid graduate students, endings. Cecilia's love of her life ends up being a toss up between her quest for technology and another human being. Mike Slackenerny pressure from wife and child and funding and professor needing to show progress finally culminates in words on screen and paper.
The author continues to grow in storytelling skills and the skits gets longer and more complicated. He has to trade off the consistency of the world-building environment with pushing forward to create new jokes and plotline advancement to maintain interest, which he does well.
Overall, another good steady release for the PhD comics.
This is a story of the long journey to the special diploma via making a huge (or minuscule but at least unique, mostly, unless you are scooped and then pivoting on the fly unless you discover they didn't really do your work, probably) addition to humanity's knowledge and, for some of our intrepid graduate students, endings. Cecilia's love of her life ends up being a toss up between her quest for technology and another human being. Mike Slackenerny pressure from wife and child and funding and professor needing to show progress finally culminates in words on screen and paper.
The author continues to grow in storytelling skills and the skits gets longer and more complicated. He has to trade off the consistency of the world-building environment with pushing forward to create new jokes and plotline advancement to maintain interest, which he does well.
Overall, another good steady release for the PhD comics.
April 18, 2020
The third book in the PhD comic set! As always, anyone who has lived the grad life will probably find these a little “too true” and humor is on par!!
I read this strip while in grad school, and am enjoying re-reading them now “on the other side” being faculty! Fond memories of the good parts of grad school, and groaning with the characters about the not-so-good parts.
I read this strip while in grad school, and am enjoying re-reading them now “on the other side” being faculty! Fond memories of the good parts of grad school, and groaning with the characters about the not-so-good parts.
December 21, 2018
95% of everything in this book is true.
February 26, 2019
A great continuation of the PhD comics series!
May 4, 2009
Third book in the online PhD comics saga, it is still quite funny but starting to show a little bit of wear around the edges due to the repetitiveness of the jokes (perhaps itself a joke about grad school).
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