“Compelling and hilarious”
“It is hard to explain adequately, but this is one of the funniest shows I have seen all year”
“Unlike some comics that hammer you to death in delivery, Ruben just tells his stories and the laughs come very naturally”
100 Reasons NOT to Go to Graduate School
Reasons 42 and 43.
Book Review on The University of Washington MCB Transcript
As my General Exam looms on the distressingly not-so-distant horizon, this book seemed perfect for me based on the title alone. I learned on the news tonight that the average salary for an RN is $66,000 a year. What WAS I thinking?
Interview on Unconventional Wisdom Radio with Larry Shiller
1400 WSTC 1350 WNLK, Fairfield County, CT. Interview starts at 27:05 and ends at 33:06.
USA Today: With no jobs, grads “gamble” on education
I asked Adam Ruben, a Ph.D.-holding molecular biologist and author of Surviving Your Stupid, Stupid Decision to go to Grad School, whether grad school was a good idea if the alternative was waitressing. “I know people who have gotten graduate degrees and then end up waitressing,” he told me, only this time with 5-figures of loans. “Even the degree doesn’t save you all the time.”
Newmark’s Door: Surviving Your Stupid, Stupid Decision to Go to Grad School
I haven’t read it, but based on the nasty, funny, extremely non-PC table of contents, I’d like to.
