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Mashable Features GradeGuru

GradeGuru made it to Mashable today!
LINK: “GradeGuru: Collaborative Note Sharing for College Students”
Author: Ben Parr
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UPDATE:

This comment was just posted on the Mashable by a student:

i’m a college student and i think it’s really helpful…i painstakingly take pages and pages of notes every class but sometimes the professor goes too fast and I miss the 3 or 4 sentences that just happen to be the most important part of the lecture. Or I’m trying to keep up & can’t read my writing. Or sometimes I just don’t understand why I wrote something down. My friends in my classes and I share our notes before exams because sometimes the way someone else wrote something down just makes more sense.
Also, after nearly every lecture when I come home and am reading over my notes there are always things that I need to know in more detail, or just need to hear it a different way to really get it, so I end up spending hours researching whatever the topic is online, and sorting through the thosands of articles in my school’s databases. Having one place where I can search for the topic will be really helpful to fill in the blanks that I might have in my notes.
I know my friends and I plan to use GradeGuru before finals to share our notes with eachother so we can save paper and not photocopy different pages for different people, etc.
Also, it’s a good place for me to STORE my notes…right now I have boxes and boxes of file folders overflowing.

People who use GradeGuru maliously won’t get anything out of it in the end anyhow. I see people cheat in class all of the time and maybe that gets them a high A when I studied super hard and barely got a 90%. But when I have my MPH and then my Phd and they couldn’t even get into a good grad school….well, then cheating won’t seem to them like it was worth it.

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