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		<title>GradeGuru.com, Get Paid For Note-Taking</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Nov 2008 20:34:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lily Q</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My roommate Lucie spent most of last night manically copying notes for a final today. Looking crazy-faced and muttering a little bit, she thrust at least ten pages&#8211; covered back and front&#8211; in my face, apparently expecting me to commiserate and make the whole wasting her life with anthropology work thing feel less terrible. All [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://nyulocal.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/15455471_1f95ac86f11.jpg"  rel="shadowbox[post-5195];player=img; attachment wp-att-5252"><img class="size-medium wp-image-5252 alignleft" title="15455471_1f95ac86f11" src="http://nyulocal.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/15455471_1f95ac86f11.jpg" alt="" width="244" height="169" /></a>My roommate Lucie spent most of last night manically copying notes for a final today. Looking crazy-faced and muttering a little bit, she thrust at least ten pages&#8211; covered back and front&#8211; in my face, apparently expecting me to commiserate and make the whole wasting her life with anthropology work thing feel less terrible. All I could think, though was what a waste, she&#8217;s just going to trash those notes in twelve hours, possibly even burn them in some sort of useless gesture of finality.</p>
<p>Irony of all ironies, <a href="http://underthebutton.com/2008/11/we-test-drive-gradegurucom/" onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('/outbound/article/http://underthebutton.com/2008/11/we-test-drive-gradegurucom/');">Under the Button </a>posted about their test run of <a href="http://www.gradeguru.com/sps/hello.htm;jsessionid=D7BBDDDB6DEC0C08EADDCBBD5AE8969B" onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('/outbound/article/http://www.gradeguru.com/sps/hello.htm;jsessionid=D7BBDDDB6DEC0C08EADDCBBD5AE8969B');">GradeGuru.com </a>that very day. The site pays for your class notes based on their user popularity and it&#8217;s possible to get up to 50 sets of notes before you even register. So while it may sound ridiculous to pay $50,000 a year only to skip class and buy a stranger&#8217;s notes, when you&#8217;re waking up at the ass crack of dawn for a core requirement, I&#8217;m pretty sure that GradeGuru will start to feel a little less reprehensible.<span id="more-5195"></span></p>
<p>Though admittedly lacking in the content department, the site allows me to combine the two great loves of my life: making money and being efficient (called &#8220;lazy&#8221; in some cultures). And people like Lucie&#8211; probably lighting her study materials with a blow torch by now&#8211; with their excessive note writing can finally use that paper for something more useful than studying.</p>
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