DB Product Review

Book Description 

Production Date: April 1, 2010 

This is a book for committed scholastics who consider putting in years masochistically exhausted and overlooked as a praiseworthy objective. They lead the lives of the ruined, grade the exams of whiny students, and use desolate nights in the library or research facility seeking after a transcendent truth that just six or seven individuals will ever think about. These torment, rough looking pitiful sacks are graduate understudies, and their salvation has touched base in this witty take a gander at the low purposes of graduate school. 

Inside, you'll discover: 

• exhortation on keeping up a finish of profit before your guide 

• tips for resting upright amid exhausting classes 

• a depiction of how to discover which departmental occasions have the best unguarded free sustenance 

• how you can convincingly fudge information and pretend advancement 

This diverting manual for surviving and flourishing as the lowliest of life-structures the graduate understudy will expand on these issues and that's only the tip of the iceberg. 

From the Trade Paperback release. 

About the Author 

ADAM RUBEN put in seven years at Johns Hopkins University procuring his Ph.d. in Molecular Biology. While there, he parlayed his solid scorn for the educated community into a stand-up parody act, which he has performed at clubs, schools, and private capacities from Boston to San Diego, as of late opening for Dane Cook's Tourgasm at the Warner Theater in Washington, D.c. also gaining second place in the Funniest Jewish Comic Contest at the Laugh Factory in Times Square. For five years, Adam has taught an undergrad stand-up parody class that has rapidly turned into a standout amongst the most famous January "Intersession" courses at Johns Hopkins University and comes full circle in a last show open to all understudies. He's composed amusingness pieces for The National Lampoon and seems week after week on Food Detectives with Ted Allen. 

I've been an aficionado of Jorge Cham's Phd Comics for a few years. I even utilize an exaggeration he made of me as my profile picture most places on the web. Anyway Phd Comics gets a bit dull now and again and appears to miss managing the genuine dim diversion that is the Phd understudy experience. Adam Ruben's book benefits a vocation of filling this void. 

Obviously, you likely didn't understand there was a void to be filled until about part three of your exposition. At that point you begin acknowledging voids all for the duration of your life cause by your Stupid, Stupid Decision to go to Grad School. 

No, not brought about by the book, senseless! The voids are created by your decision! 

Get the book. Read it. Abandon it in the graduate parlor in your sp