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Playing the Game: The Streetsmart Guide to Graduate School

by Fredrick Frank

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"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.

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Average Customer Review:4 out of 5 stars
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4 out of 5 starsPerspective, 2008-05-23
While graduate school is enlightening, it is serious, tough, and grueling at times. There are a plethora of professors and guides available to piously preach the merits of higher education. Not Frank and Stein. They assume someone is already taking care of this (and they are), so they play a different role.

Every once in a while, grad students ought to step back, take a deep breath, and catch a knucklehead's glimpse of the absurdities that often lie at the root of our stress. It helps with perspective and keeps us fresh. We need it. Bitter grad students and profs who critique this book as if it is an academic journal article are at the butt of the joke. If you don't think it is funny, that is why people in the halls are staring, pointing, and laughing as you walk by. Sure, it's for the burp and fart club. We all have some of this in us at times. Those who can't admit it are doomed to high blood pressure. But look what they get out of it. They can stand tall and criticize others for "not being serious students."

Franks and Stein encourage students to become experts in their field, but to stay focused. Leaving the heavy preaching to others, these guys are only trying to help grad students keep their eyes on the ultimate goal, getting the degree. Lighten up and enjoy the ride.


89 of 90 people found the following review helpful:

5 out of 5 starsPLaying the Game : The Street Smart Guide to Graduate School, 2007-02-23
This is a must read for anyone considering, entering, or attending graduate school. As a graduate student in Anthropology, I can attest to how useful this guide is. Unlike similar books, this guide is both humorous and practical. Drs Frank and Stein will have you rolling in the halls of your current or future program, drinking non-alcoholic beer in class and taking tests in crayon. In sum, you need this book!


90 of 92 people found the following review helpful:

4 out of 5 starsMy Grad students seemed to like it, 2007-02-23
I haven't had time to read it myself but provided it to an office full of about 8 grad students. Even though they are in engineering and the book is written more for non-engineering grad students, they found much to be amused by and reviewed the book as being worth a read.


39 of 72 people found the following review helpful:

1 out of 5 starsCaptain Underpants Does Grad School, 2007-02-09
An alternate title for this book would be "Captain Underpants Aces Graduate School (Extra Bonus: 'Frickin' Gratuitous Pseudo-Swearwords on Every Page !)". I purchased this book based on positive reviews that confused the distinction between lewd and stupid - lewd I can handle. This book will be relished by life members of the fart & burp club who wish to obtain a graduate degree with the least effort. It largely ignores the concept or utility of graduate education. Perhaps the book relfects the biases of the social sciences, but my grad students in the natural sciences would skin me alive if I assigned a book that squandered so many pages on the excessive trappings of extended adolescence while instructing them carefully in the art of dodging. Its key redeaming features are a collection of excellent quotes and written caricatures of professors in the social sciences and humanities - the authors must know my dean.


99 of 100 people found the following review helpful:

5 out of 5 starsFab-u-lous, 2006-10-08
This book is great. While the language in the book temporarily increased my personal level of profanity, the ideas the authors present have stayed with me. As a first semester doctoral student, the most valuable lesson I've learned is that the smart kids do research projects linked to their dissertation topic along the way. I definatly recommend this book. Unlike many of the articles I am assigned to read, this one isn't boring. And while I wondered how I'd find the time to fit in reading something "for fun," it was an easy read when I only had 15 or so minutes free, not enough time to get into the "heavy, boring" reading, or when I got tired of reading big words in sentences that seemed to never end.




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