http://www.porterhousecomic.com/38-piled-higher-and-deeper-a-graduate-student-comic-strip-collection.html Fri, 23 Apr 2010 05:58:01 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://www.porterhousecomic.com/38-piled-higher-and-deeper-a-graduate-student-comic-strip-collection.html#comment-140 Chadwick Johnson Mon, 19 Apr 2010 03:02:39 +0000 http://www.porterhousecomic.com/38-piled-higher-and-deeper-a-graduate-student-comic-strip-collection.html#comment-140 Its a shame this comic isn't right next to Garfield in every paper! Rating: 5 / 5 Its a shame this comic isn’t right next to Garfield in every paper!
Rating: 5 / 5

]]> http://www.porterhousecomic.com/38-piled-higher-and-deeper-a-graduate-student-comic-strip-collection.html#comment-139 D. Das Mon, 19 Apr 2010 01:44:31 +0000 http://www.porterhousecomic.com/38-piled-higher-and-deeper-a-graduate-student-comic-strip-collection.html#comment-139 HI Jorge, <br />I finished your book in 45 mins after I tore open the shipment from amazon. The excitement was due to the fact that it talks abt us(hmmm, i'm a phd student myself!)and I wanted to know who well u portrayed it. And you did it damn well! Just one complaint!!! I thought the book would be thicker...stories of grad life are bigger...and bigger it gets,we'll like it even more! So plz don't stop writing. I know u'll graduate, but pass on to your colleagues who are still looking for the light at the end of the tunnel! Rating: 5 / 5 HI Jorge,

I finished your book in 45 mins after I tore open the shipment from amazon. The excitement was due to the fact that it talks abt us(hmmm, i’m a phd student myself!)and I wanted to know who well u portrayed it. And you did it damn well! Just one complaint!!! I thought the book would be thicker…stories of grad life are bigger…and bigger it gets,we’ll like it even more! So plz don’t stop writing. I know u’ll graduate, but pass on to your colleagues who are still looking for the light at the end of the tunnel!
Rating: 5 / 5

]]> http://www.porterhousecomic.com/38-piled-higher-and-deeper-a-graduate-student-comic-strip-collection.html#comment-138 a user Mon, 19 Apr 2010 00:42:03 +0000 http://www.porterhousecomic.com/38-piled-higher-and-deeper-a-graduate-student-comic-strip-collection.html#comment-138 I bought this book due to the recommendations listed here and was very disappointed! Not only was the print quality of the book very poor, the comic strip was only mildly amusing at best. This was surprising to me, because as a Ph.D. student, I am intimately aware of the insanities associated with grad student life, and thought they would be humorously profiled here. Although a few of the strips made me smile, none of them evoked the rolling on the ground laughter that I was hoping for. I guess I will have to find another diversion from my thesis! :) Rating: 2 / 5 I bought this book due to the recommendations listed here and was very disappointed! Not only was the print quality of the book very poor, the comic strip was only mildly amusing at best. This was surprising to me, because as a Ph.D. student, I am intimately aware of the insanities associated with grad student life, and thought they would be humorously profiled here. Although a few of the strips made me smile, none of them evoked the rolling on the ground laughter that I was hoping for. I guess I will have to find another diversion from my thesis!
Rating: 2 / 5

]]> http://www.porterhousecomic.com/38-piled-higher-and-deeper-a-graduate-student-comic-strip-collection.html#comment-137 Grad Student Sun, 18 Apr 2010 22:49:03 +0000 http://www.porterhousecomic.com/38-piled-higher-and-deeper-a-graduate-student-comic-strip-collection.html#comment-137 Not funny. It goes in the trash so no one else has <br />to read it. Rating: 1 / 5 Not funny. It goes in the trash so no one else has

to read it.
Rating: 1 / 5

]]> http://www.porterhousecomic.com/38-piled-higher-and-deeper-a-graduate-student-comic-strip-collection.html#comment-136 Amazon reviewer Sun, 18 Apr 2010 22:32:55 +0000 http://www.porterhousecomic.com/38-piled-higher-and-deeper-a-graduate-student-comic-strip-collection.html#comment-136 100% of the other reviews are most likely from grad students attending Leland Stanford Jr. College. If you are not in that category of the struggling in need of ego-stroking, then you probably won't be interested. Firstly, it is not funny. After a few pages we get it: grad students are overworked, tired, poor, starving, and mostly geeks seeking dates. How is that different than the life of undergrads? Ok, grad students have an awkward relationship with professors (who don't even know their names and use them as slaves) and under-grads (who consider them authority figures) which gives the grad students an odd mental complex. No much real humor here. Unless you count references to how supposedly great the weather is presumably in Palo Alto which is not really that good compared to southern California. If you expect actual humor, you won't find it in this. Flame on if you must, but you know this it true. <br /> Rating: 1 / 5 100% of the other reviews are most likely from grad students attending Leland Stanford Jr. College. If you are not in that category of the struggling in need of ego-stroking, then you probably won’t be interested. Firstly, it is not funny. After a few pages we get it: grad students are overworked, tired, poor, starving, and mostly geeks seeking dates. How is that different than the life of undergrads? Ok, grad students have an awkward relationship with professors (who don’t even know their names and use them as slaves) and under-grads (who consider them authority figures) which gives the grad students an odd mental complex. No much real humor here. Unless you count references to how supposedly great the weather is presumably in Palo Alto which is not really that good compared to southern California. If you expect actual humor, you won’t find it in this. Flame on if you must, but you know this it true.

Rating: 1 / 5

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