Playing the Game: The Streetsmart Guide to Graduate School

by Fredrick Frank, Karl Stein

"This book is lewd, rude and superb! Frank and Stein have written the first guide to grad school from a student's point of view; and the result is an irreverent, humorous and USEFUL book of advice. These foul-mouthed sages will help you get through a master's or doctoral program more quickly, with fewer blunders and less angst. I plan to recommend this book to all the graduate students I coach and teach."
�Mary McKinney, Ph.D.
Clinical Psychologist and Dissertation Coach
http://www.successfulacademic.com

Yes, sports fans!, er, grad school fans…Bad boys Fred and Karl are back with an updated version of their best selling self-help guide for grad students. This New and/or Improved Version is stocked with additional content, more lame attempts at humor, and a lower price (Karl threatened to moon the publisher unless his demands were met).

Written with the attitude of a couple ill-mannered schoolboys who exhibit the insight and genius of the Ph.D.�s who wrote it, Playing the Game simplifies even the most complex aspects of grad school.

Authors Frank and Stein have broken down Playing The Game into three hilarious and straightforward sections: Getting In, Getting Through, and Getting the Hell Out. In whatever stage of graduate school you find yourself, rest assured that you will never again grumble, �If only I had known! If only someone had explained this @%#! to me sooner!�

Playing the Game simplifies the entire graduate school experience while imparting comically relevant stories and translating complicated graduate school jargon. This self-help guide helps grad students to comprehensively navigate their graduate school journey from application to matriculation. Unlike most of the material you�ll be reading in grad school, Playing the Game is actually intelligible.

www.playing-the-game.com

Genres: Nonfiction

256 pages, Paperback

First published February 18, 2004

Reviews

[Kristin · Rating 2 out of 5]

Read this for school... it was really funny at first, but after a while, I wanted the authors to give up the jokes for a bit and just get to their advice. Some good points on scheduling thesis work, but this is mostly helpful for people who are considering grad school, not already in it.

[Dioscita · Rating 4 out of 5]

Finally, some of the secrets are revealed!

[Stephanie McClure]

supposed to be funny, and light -- however, not number 1 on the list of books to read

[Nicolas Torres brauer · Rating 4 out of 5]

Buenisimo!!!, super recomendado si quieres estudiar un doctorado en estados unidos.