August's Official Winners + Closing the Summer Contest

Hi All! It's with some sadness but with more excitement that I announce today's winners. Today also marks the official end to the summer contest. But that doesn't mean that there won't be more to come. We've got lots more up our sleeves: flowers and bunny rabbits and scarves and all sorts of other magic tricks.

Math:

1. L.Z. (3,281 Solutions)
2. Ankur B. (1,039 Solutions) 
3. David M. (994 Solutions)

Sciences and Engineering: 

1. Thomas S. (530 Solutions)
2. Gang X. (465 Solutions)
3. Wen C. (401 Solutions)

Business and Economics:

1. Esther C. (249 Solutions)
2. Doug T. (209 Solutions)
3. Jason C. (162 Solutions)

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August 27 Update

Hey everyone! You have until Friday to turn in solutions for the contest, and things are looking really great so far for August. We've never seen so many solutions at once! These numbers are current as of Friday afternoon, so if you submitted over the weekend, please be aware that those won't be reflected here. We'll update in a day or two to keep up-to-date regularly as we get closer to crossing the finish line.

Math -- As L.Z. has blown everyone out of the water (including two of our other top authors in math!), we'll be giving out prizes for first and second place in math as well!

1. L.Z. (3,055 Solutions)
2. Ankur B. (945 Solutions) 
3. David M. (700 Solutions)
4. Rebecca W. (645 Solutions) 

Sciences and Engineering: 

1. Thomas S. (466 Solutions)
2. Wen C. (365 Solutions)
3. Gang X. (294 Solutions)
4. Matthew G. (255 Solutions)
5. Jillian D. (221 Solutions)

Business and Economics -- This is the closest race this month:

1. Esther C. (179 Solutions)
2. Doug T. (174 Solutions)
3. Uzma R. (144 Solutions)

August's Revised Prize: There's TWO of Them

Due to some close consideration on our part and the fact that Chegg is currently doing a summer-long Fitness Challenge here in our offices, we've decided to switch up this month's prize.

I know the Beats by Dre headphones were cool, so we had to do something even cooler. We've decided to give you two things instead. Twice the fun.

The first prize is something I've been wanting myself for the last 3 months. It's called the Fitbit, and it tracks both your sleep as well as your exercise. You can read more about it here, but it's basically the tech-gadget-cool equivalent of a pedometer (that is actually accurate). Since you sleep with it too, it also lets you know that you're getting adequate sleep and how long it takes you to fall asleep at night, so you can work towards a healthier you. It's important to us that you're happy AND healthy, so we're very excited to give this to our top authors (we want you to stay healthy so you can keep being amazing!). We hope others of you will take a look as well. I'll be getting my own in the meantime and trying it out.

The second prize is something else close to our hearts. Actually, Ryan uses these every day here at work, and he keeps talking them up so much that we figured everyone should experience the comfort and great sound quality of these headphones. Better yet, since they're small and portable, you can wear them while you exercise with your Fitbit!

So it'll be a nice little fitness/entertainment package for ya plus the glory of being one of our rockstar authors. Happy solutions authoring and have a great weekend!

First August Update

Hey guys! Sorry for our delay. Now that the Olympics are over though, this is basically the next best thing, so we're back in with full energy.

We should probably do fireworks like this once this is all over... no?
Photo via CBS News

So without further delay, here's how y'all are doing in the contest so far in August:

Math: 

1. L.Z. (1,845 Solutions) (killin' it)
2. Ankur B. (945 Solutions) (also killin' it)
3. Rebecca W. (481 Solutions) (okay, I could just keep saying killin' it over and over)
4. David M. (400 Solutions)

Sciences and Engineering: 

1. Thomas S. (377 Solutions)
2. Wen C. (323 Solutions)
3. Jillian D. (221 Solutions)
4. James K. (200 Solutions)
5. Matthew G. (170 Solutions)

Business and Economics:

1. Esther C. (139 Solutions)
2. Kelvin W. (100 Solutions)
3. Uzma R. (89 Solutions)
4. Doug T. (77 Solutions)

August: We're Keeping You In Suspense...

We won't be updating the contest this week. So we're keeping you in suspense for 2 reasons:

1. You're submitting so much work that it's taking a lot of our time to keep track of everything, and we haven't had time to tally up everyone's totals and a lot of other excuses. Hey, we hear lots of excuses; we've gotten good at creating some of our own along the way!
2. The first week is pretty anticlimactic anyway. That's the real reason. We'll leave you with the below inspirational cat meme, which should keep you going while you wait.

So we'll be back next week with an update of how everyone is doing. We'd love to see some up-and-coming authors take the lead this month! It would be a real underdog story.

August's Prize: Beats by Dre Studio Headphones

I'm assuming that you all listen to all kinds of ridiculous music (or really awesome) music while you're writing solutions for us. Am I right? We mix it up over here: a bit of Iron & Wine or Bon Iver in the morning, Ryan's usually listening to salsa or Donna Summer ("She Works Hard for the Money") by the afternoon. I'm listening to something that cuts a fine line between horrible and amazing (Carly Rae Jepson? That Justin Bieber song everyone pretends they hate?) to keep me going. Ashok? He claims to be stuck in the 80s, but he mixes Huey Lewis and the News with Daft Punk. 

Today's a bit different though. Ryan is bumping Bach. We're taking things seriously.

And while that's all well and good, all of that music would sound far, far better on a pair of these Chegg-orange Beats by Dre headphones. So we got 'em for you. And we got some for ourselves while we were at it.

We're giving away 3 pairs of these bad boys for your listening pleasure. Can't wait to see who gets them!