Referral Contest Winners!

Announcing our winners of the referral contest!

1. Michael P. 
2. Marissa H. 
3. Kassandra J. 
4. Shane P.
5. Lauren C. 

You're all gettting $20 Amazon gift cards! We'll contact you shortly. 

We'll be starting up a new contest in June, so stay tuned for more chances to win gift cards and prizes.

Expert Referral Program

Please note:

If you submit a referral between now and July 4 at 11:59 PM PDT, you'll be entered into a drawing for one of FIVE $20 AMAZON CARDS!

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!

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!

July's Prize: Engraved White iPod Touch

Awesome work in June, everyone! We're excited to announce July's prize. 

Let the drumroll begin....

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Actually, that probably doesn't work on the Internet, seeing as how you can just scroll down and ignore all of this text. 

At any rate, it's a brand new 8GB white iPod Touch (5th gen) with personal engraving on the back! 

Use it to take photos, make videos, listen to all your favorite tunes, play games, watch videos and movies, and even use iMessage to text your friends for free! We're giving away one in each discipline to show our appreciation and get you pumped for next month's prize, which will be EVEN cooler. As if that were possible...

Photo via Apple

More Prizes for First, Second, Third Place

Since we were so impressed last week and this week with your hard work, we've decided to institute a few more prizes into this month's competition.

First place in each discipline will still win an Amazon Kindle!

But nooooow: 

Second place overall will win a $50 Amazon gift card. 

Third place will win a $25 Amazon gift card. 

You can't argue with that. The numbers are staying very close. So far the first, second, and third place overall are:

1. Ankur Bhatt: 858
2. Jason Shaw: 726
3. Andrea Walker: 400

Oh, hey, that's a lot of money falling from the sky as if by magic...