Study with Shmoop and Win A $100 Amazon Gift Card

May 4, 2009 12:00 pm     Posted in Cool Stuff  Candy -- NYU g+ page

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By Candy

So, you studying for that last final?
Trying to push your way to the end?
Wondering what the hell you are supposed to do about this giant blue book exam now that you have successfully skipped every class the entire semester?

You might be totally screwed, but you also may have a chance to pull a Mine That Bird (that’s a Kentucky Derby reference) and come up from behind! And you can win a $100 Amazon gift card just for trying!

“But fantabulous CollegeCandy editors, how would I ever be able to do that!?”

I’m glad you asked, dear reader. Let me introduce you to Shmoop.

Shmoop is the only other website you need in life besides CollegeCandy (and maybe TFLN). It is a site made for you, chock full of the study guides and aids you will need to succeed in those college classes. Ok, not all of them, but the ones that have all those ridiculous reading assignments that you would never be able to complete, even if you didn’t choose The Gauntlet on MTV over Hamlet.

We recently teamed up with the Shmoopies to reward all of your hard work by giving away three (3) $100 Amazon gift cards. All you have to do is visit Shmoop.com, find something on there that really helped you in your quest for blue book domination, and paste the link in the comments section below. Give us a short explanation of how that helped you and you are entered to win a gift card.

Yes, it’s that easy. Learn a little, win a little.

You have until Monday, May 11th at 5pm to get your entries in. We will randomly choose 3 winners and announce them on Tuesday, May 12th. Each of those Shmoop-worms (it’s like a book worm…without the book) will get $100 to spend any way they want on Amazon.com. Sure, you should probably spend it on books, but we won’t tell anyone if you put it towards the entire Saved By the Bell series on DVD.

So get Shmooping. And good luck on those exams – as much fun as college is, you really don’t want to have to re-take that class.

[Photo courtesy of icfusemag on Flickr.]

31 Comments on "Study with Shmoop and Win A $100 Amazon Gift Card"

  1. Trish says:
    Mon, 4th May 20097:33 am 

    http://www.shmoop.com/intro/history/us/fdr-s-new-…

    Good thing that all those fuzzy years of middle school had me somewhat familiar with this "New Deal" business so I could use it in my final economy paper to show that while it was excellent for its time and obviously carried into the way we function as an American society, we obviously need a New New Deal to somehow ease or even fix the pains of what occured in the last few decades that lead to this decline…it also helped me catch up to my history-buff of a boyfriend who just knows this stuff like the back of his hand which in turn got me laid because he was impressed I knew about the New Deal to such perfection when no one else gave a crap. Good times.

  2. Marissa says:
    Mon, 4th May 20098:00 am 

    http://www.shmoop.com/theme/literature/albert-cam…

    Such good help for the day that it was 90 degrees and sunny outside and I decided to lay outside instead of attend my Western Civ lecture on Existentialism and Camus' "The Plague"! As if that topic wasn't hard enough to understand, it was made even harder to try to learn it on my own through random Google searchs. Thank you Shmoop! I'm going to go dominate my Civ exam now!

  3. Laura says:
    Mon, 4th May 20099:21 am 

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  4. Jim Everett says:
    Mon, 4th May 20099:50 am 

    http://www.shmoop.com/study-questions/literature/…

    Have a final on this book this week and the study questions have helped alot. Very helpful to know exactly what pages important information was on, made life alot easier.

    New to this site but will definitely come back for more.

  5. Candie says:
    Mon, 4th May 200910:10 am 

    http://www.shmoop.com/themes/literature/william-s…

    I have an 8-page paper due Wednesday about the themes of sex and free will in Romeo and Juliet, and what Freud would make of the play. I was starting to think there was nothing on the topic on the wide world of the internet, but a little nifty searching on Schmoop did the trick! I'll definitely be looking to this website to help me out with impossible papers again.

  6. prathibha says:
    Mon, 4th May 200910:12 am 

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  7. Yan Lim says:
    Mon, 4th May 200910:23 am 

    http://www.shmoop.com/intro/literature/f-scott-fi…

    I've got an intro level American Literature class and one of the texts we have to speed-read through for Jazz-age / Prohibition era literature is known other than the venerable The Great Gatsby. The link above from Shmoop neatly provides summary, themes, plot devices and quotes all of which are a separate click away, which has been an invaluable aid. There's even a section with trivia and different hypothesis generated by other students of the text!

    I wish I'd found this website earlier in the semester.

  8. Bryn says:
    Mon, 4th May 200910:27 am 

    http://www.shmoop.com/intro/history/us/history-of…

    This helped me with the independent study I am doing on journalism online. I can only truly understand where we should go if I know where we are coming from. This will help me write my final paper.

  9. W C says:
    Mon, 4th May 200910:43 am 

    http://www.shmoop.com/intro/literature/herman-hes…

    I found this helpful in understanding the story. This is a great site that doesn't take too long to read and maps out all the clear points. Now I am able to cut down on my study time and write a coherent report about it.

  10. Amanda says:
    Mon, 4th May 200910:52 am 

    http://www.shmoop.com/analysis/literature/william…

    I'm not ashamed to admit that I am in love with Shakespeare's Hamlet.

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  11. Courtney says:
    Mon, 4th May 200911:46 am 

    I was shlopping my way along in my Shakespeare, drowing in the maddness that is Hamlet. Shmoop saved me! http://www.shmoop.com/study-questions/literature/…. If you need to know that you have a real understanding of the material, their study questions rock. They ask REAL questions in real words. If you don't get it, or can't explain a down to earth answer, then it's time to go back and study a bit more. I start with their "In A Nutshell," and go from there.

    Stop Shlopping! Start Shmooping!

  12. Courtney says:
    Mon, 4th May 200911:46 am 

    I was shlopping my way along in my Shakespeare, drowning in the maddness that is Hamlet. Shmoop saved me! http://www.shmoop.com/study-questions/literature/…. If you need to know that you have a real understanding of the material, their study questions rock. They ask REAL questions in real words. If you don't get it, or can't explain a down to earth answer, then it's time to go back and study a bit more. I start with their "In A Nutshell," and go from there.

    Stop Shlopping! Start Shmooping!

  13. Sonia says:
    Mon, 4th May 20092:03 pm 

    http://www.shmoop.com/events/literature/aldous-hu…

    The website was really helpful, I didn't have time to finish the book before my quiz today and it told me everything I needed to know. Everything is set up in a really organized manner that is easy to read and to follow. Thanks!

  14. Joe says:
    Mon, 4th May 20092:10 pm 

    http://www.shmoop.com/intro/literature/harper-lee…

    Instead of doing my reading, I slacked and needed some refreshment on To Kill… Thanks for providing some great info on the book! Helped me ace that test!

  15. Maryam Khan says:
    Mon, 4th May 20095:30 pm 

    http://www.shmoop.com/intro/literature/chaim-poto…

    English teachers can be so picky about what they want us to read and books that they assign us. My final for The Chosen by Chaim Potok, due tomorrow, is over the difference between the influence of Zionist and Hasidic Jews. But guess what? I have no previous knowledge on these subjects because I'm not Jewish. What a surprise! This Shmoop website is awesome. It explains everything I need to know and there is so much background information. The easy to understand lingo on shmoop makes everything go by so much faster and actually pertains stuff to my life and puts everything in place.

    Thank You Shmoop!

  16. Brigid says:
    Mon, 4th May 20097:55 pm 

    http://www.shmoop.com/intro/history/us/the-columbian-exchange.html

    This will help me SO MUCH for my exam! It gave me a concise summary of this topic that my professor struggled to do. Now I know I am going to ace my exam!!! THANKS SHMOOP!!

  17. Kaycee says:
    Tue, 5th May 20092:45 am 

    http://www.shmoop.com/intro/literature/unknown/be…
    If only I would have discovered this SOONER! Writing that Beowulf paper for Medieval History would have been so much nicer. But at least I have it for the final!

  18. Danielle says:
    Tue, 5th May 20092:52 pm 

    http://www.shmoop.com/analysis/literature/william…

    This plot analysis of Hamlet really helped me to write my 5 page essay on the play for Composition class. I am glad Shmoop could help me out! They provided great information and explained it in a clear manner and better than my teacher!!!

  19. Jordan says:
    Wed, 6th May 20098:38 pm 

    If you ask a kid what the worst book they’ve read in school is, they may say A Tale of Two Cities. That’s what I would say at least. And that’s what I’m saying now. I have an essay due in a couple days elaborating on an important theme in the novel, and describing how the motifs relate to the theme. Oh how easy you say, picking a simple theme and writing an essay. But wait! Too bad Dickens didn’t write in modern english, and too bad I didnt even read every chapter. But shmoop really helped me. I was able to complete my essay, and I now know what ATOTC was actually about!
    http://www.shmoop.com/themes/literature/charles-dickens/a-tale-of-two-cities.html

  20. Norah says:
    Thu, 7th May 20097:00 am 

    http://www.shmoop.com/intro/history/us/civil-righ…

    People all over the world are freaking out about the H1N1 virus, and my professors are no exception. My "Media Responsibility Over Time" final was recently switched from an in-class exam to a take-home essay test in case "swine flu" reached our campus. Now I have to write an essay about media coverage of events during the Civil Rights movement, so I'll be relying on Shmoop to help me through it!

  21. Mary says:
    Thu, 7th May 200910:07 am 

    http://www.shmoop.com/analysis/history/us/cold-wa…

    I had a 10 page paper on this due. Except I didn't know where to start b/c I don't ever read for class b/c the stuff is horribly boring. This was nice and easy and helped me actually do my paper. I loveeee this site now!

  22. John says:
    Sat, 9th May 20093:52 am 

    http://www.shmoop.com/intro/history/us/immigratio…

    You can only attend so many lectures of Immigration and Assimilation in America before you end up missing a couple. This site is great and gives you the whole timeline in case you need some help filling the holes in your notes (if you missed a class or just started day dreaming). It's also helped me get a handle on the big picture of the whole topic – in case you start getting lost in the woods so to speak.

  23. sheena says:
    Sat, 9th May 20094:08 pm 

    http://www.shmoop.com/intro/history/us/making-the…

    Perhaps it is common to all that if you live in a certain country you could only know deeper about that country's history and all. How about the other countries?especially Us? the biggest of all the country? I think this topic helped me because i'm planning to have a bit of this topic in our thesis..and really,after i'd visited this site,oh thank god. I found what I'm looking for, after an hour of surfing the net. Thank you for this site, this really contribute a lot in our thesis and for sure in our some upcoming research works.

  24. Sharon says:
    Sun, 10th May 20098:02 pm 

    http://www.shmoop.com/analysis/history/us/the-gre…

    Thanks for introducing me to Shmoop! It has so much great information organized in such an enticingly easy-to-digest way.

    I had been struggling to fully understand all of the different components of The Great Depression and how they all interacted and intertwined prior to checking out Shmoop. There were just so many pieces to juggle in my head and I was having difficulty remembering the many hows, whens, and whys.

    I know that I need a solid grasp of exactly what caused The Great Depression and the differences between the economic situation today and the turmoil that started in the late 1920s in order to pass this course that I am taking.

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  25. Michelle says:
    Mon, 11th May 20098:16 am 

    http://www.shmoop.com/event/literature/fyodor-dos…

    Well gosh! I sure wish I found this website a little earlier. "Crime and Punishment" was definitely one test that I barely read for and I made some pretty embarrassing mistakes. I skimmed the chapter and got a few key ideas wrong. Oops! Cool website, thanks for promoting it.

  26. spamgirl says:
    Mon, 11th May 200911:53 am 

    http://www.shmoop.com/intro/history/us/causes-of-…

    Why Should I Care? really made sense to me… I never got it until I read that.

  27. Maggie Smith says:
    Mon, 11th May 200912:56 pm 

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    Mon, 11th May 20092:02 pm 

    http://www.shmoop.com/events/literature/mary-shel…

    Well, this link hasn't helped me YET, but it will very very shortly! I'm taking an online science fiction English course this summer to help complete some of the more annoying graduation requirements, and Frankenstein is our first subject of study.

    Thanks for this link… this course made me realise I actually hated English in high school (I'm a genetics major) and I have a feeling I'll need it a LOT.

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