The Quizlet Queries for Quid program is going strong - the latest count puts our combined fundraising total at $770! That’s just about a third of my overall goal of raising $2,512 dollars. We can definitely do it, we just need your help.
What is Quizlet Queries for Quid? Well, if you haven’t seen the original blog post about this, check that out.
I’ve just added two new proposals to the challenge:
The first one will get a camera for a journalism class in Oakland, CA, a city just ten minutes away from where I live (or shall I say, Quizlet world headquarters 
) The journalism class at my high school (in which I’m the editor of our website, The Cougar Online) is fortunate enough to have several cameras, and they are absolutely essential to our operation.
The second one is also local for me - it will buy a refrigerator for a class of special-needs students in San Jose, CA, which is about an hour away from Quizlet HQ. This is an incredible idea. To quote their request:
The students would only be serving coffee to school staff. I know my students can make lattes. All they need is a little practice. Also, the students would be learning the skills necessary to run or manage a store. The students would be using math to perform inventory, budgeting and other accounting principles. The students would be practicing Language Arts by composing email orders and taking other forms of correspondence. The students would learn to initiate in polite customer interactions.
Our problem is that we have no refrigerator to store our milk, water and espresso beans. We are hoping that we can get a refrigerator so that we can finalize and check off all equipment needed to start this program. We have everything but a refrigerator.
Is that awesome or what? We’re still working on two other proposals, getting a color printer for a school in Louisiana and helping students in North Carolina build a trashcan holder. If you haven’t already, now’s your chance to donate. We only need to raise $1,742 more dollars to reach our goal. If you can’t, please encourage your parents and friends to donate.
I’d like to recognize the twelve Quizlet users who have donated already:
- Mr. Kevin Hoogheem
- Mr. Alan Margulius
- Ms. Cristina Lopez
- Mr. Erik Heerlein
- Mr. Kevin James (twice!)
- Ms. Bettina Mok
- Anonymous
- Mr. Neil Kelty
- Mr. Max McBride
- Mrs. Debra Della Silva
- Ms. Jeanetta Mish
- Mr. Andrew Sutherland (me!)
As I promised in the original blog post, anyone who donates through the Quizlet Queries for Quid program will get all ads on Quizlet forever removed from their accounts, and a little 
icon on their dashboards. To people on that list, send me a message and I’ll set you up with the special settings. Thank you for your generosity!
While we’re here, let’s talk about Quizlet a little bit. Since the last post about performance problems, I’ve made several key changes to make Quizlet faster and more reliable. Uptime and average pageload times have improved a lot. I’ve also overhauled the Search page (it still has a long way to go though, in terms of returning good results). I’ve been making lots of back-end changes that are unnoticeable to you guys, but certainly make everything run smoother behind the scenes.
Last, a few life updates: I submitted my applications to UC Berkeley and UCLA last night! It was a great feeling - I went out for a post-midnight celebration with a friend (I sent mine in in the afternoon, but he squeezed his in 25 minutes before the deadline!) to a local 24hr burger joint. It was awesome. Also, I will find out about my MIT application in exactly two weeks! Not to mention my 18th birthday is in eight days! Among other (less scrupulous) rights, I’ll get to vote for the first time in time for the presidential primaries. Yay growing up and going to college 
that is a great cause, i will ask my parents if we can donate
also, i have a couple problems wbout quizlet that i hope you can fix for me.
#1: my friend sent me 3 private messages. the first asked: “do u have the biology notes?” the second asked: “will u make a set for next tuesday’s french test?” and the third asked: “do u think Mrs.Calloway talks too much?” i read the first PM and responded “yes”. my friend responded: “what? i thought you liked Mrs.C!” i was confused, and she was confused, and it took us 6 PMs to figure it out. i think that PMs should be set up more like emails: with subjects. then these problems would never happen.
#2: when i search & click on groups, it doesn’t load. this may be a problem with my computer and/or internet explorer, but if it isn’t you should fix it.
that’s all for now, i love quizlet (not just for school!)
I think you should stop complaining. Why don’t you use email if you want it like that??
And, he is trying his best
Kudos to you Andrew
andrew congrads about the applications and the birthday my birthday is in 13 days(dec 15) ill be a teenager FINNALLY and thats cool about the refridgator and i would like to thank you for doing so much for quizlet ill ask my teacher if we can like have a donation from everyone and donate to the quires thing
Anna: thanks for the feedback. Regarding the private messages thing, it’s a good suggestion, but I don’t think I want to do it just yet. Quizlet keeps it super simple right now with private messaging, and I think it works reasonably well. It’s not 100% perfect, but adding a bunch of new features is not always the best way. Regarding the search page - oy! I just noticed the display bug in Internet Explorer 6. The search page looks pretty weird - I will definitely try to fix that ASAP. In the meantime you might try Firefox or Internet Explorer 7.
Shiv: Yes I am trying my best, but I certainly don’t mind the feedback. To me, that was definitely not complaining, it was constructive criticism. Thanks
Jessica: Cool. Happy birthday in advance! Thanks for helping out with QQQ.
the search page is amazing!
hi
yay to andrew! you’re awesome
who are you
Everyone - Search page should be fixed in Internet Explorer 6 now. Sorry for the troubles recently.
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Thatz GREAT
Hello! I *HEART* Quizlet… I can’t believe you started it on your own! It’s just SO AMAZING!
o.O
-Raeny
Andrew: When you go to college what will you do with quizlet?
dab: I’m still figuring that out…
Happy Birthday!
only 18 days till christmas
who’s birthday is it again
The site wouldn’t let me log in.
andrew how do you put pictures on quizlet PS i <3 quizlet
Hey andrew! Congrats! By the way do you know if quizlet has any other smiles besides these?
Thank you SO much! Oh and if any blog readers know any more that would help too! Thank you so insanely much!!! 
Your birthday is tomorrow Andrew!!! Congrats on the big 18!!
Happy B-Day!!!!!!!!!!!! (who ever birthday it is)
Happy birthday to you!
Happy birthday to you!
Happy birthday dear Andrew!
Happy birthday to you!
nice:);)
who is andrew:?::?::?::?::?:
happy lat 2 day birthday!
13 days til christmas
here are some more smileys
and 
8D birthdays ftw!
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wwwooowww!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Do you think that you could have something that tells what set or group a person is on? Sometimes i find that my friends are on, and want to talk to them, but can’t because i dont know where they are.
wow u dudes r awesome
this sounds likea an amazing charity ! i will ask my parents if we can donate!
hey andrew i love quizlet its soo coool. i was just wondering though if you could on the group pages make categories so that i could put the certain quizzes in categories like math or science or somethin. thank you sooo much
So, did you hear back from MIT?
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This is pretty cool. All this stuff you are working to achieve. Props/Kudos/etc.
peanut butter’s awesome!!!!!
OH-IO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
go bucks
i bleed scarlet & gray
hi
cooooooollllll
merry christmas!!!
Look at Quizlet’s search numbers!
http://google.com/trends?q=quizlet&ctab=0
wait a highschool student created quizlet?? who knew!
hey andrew i love quizlet its soo coool. i was just wondering though if you could on the group pages make categories so that i could put the certain quizzes in categories like math or science or somethin. thank you sooo much
Hi
hi
you rock!
Hey Andrew, I like this place, its just that a few of these active users hate my ( not the staff ) I want to know if you have punishments to those who kick u out of their group the next day. I am not mentioning any names, oh “The Forerunners” is the name of the group that keep on rejecting me. Any advice?
I have 1 more
how and can I be a Quizlet staff member
another suggestion is to get some advertisments on this site, from that you will make money which will allow you to donate to cherity
hey i really like this site since ive been using this site all my grades went up at least 4 pts on the report card thaanks for making it
the schoolmanic
Great job, your heart is in the right place, Andrew.
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i love you
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That is GR8!!!!!!! I am so proud of you Andrew!!!! I think what you are doing is GR8!!!!!!!! Keep up the good work!!!!!
this is so cool =]]
ya for you
Can I have some??
cash rocks
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if you agree with me then go to pie lovers
what is this?
is this on the west coast because i live in CT and right it’s 6:21
Good for you!
:) 
great for your stupid butt!!!!!!!
yeah what evaaaa
its not like i even read this stupid article thingy
eww who reads anyways
haha jk. i think its a pretty good cause
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