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My longtime friend (and occasional Quizlet user) Jackie and me, at graduation

On Friday the 13^th, I graduated from Albany High School. I know, what a lucky day to graduate, eh? It was a wonderful ceremony, and it feels great to finally be done with mandatory education. Now I have the summer to relax, work on Quizlet, and go on vacation. I still don’t have it all planned out yet, but I probably won’t be going on any massive adventures like last summer. And then in last August, I’ll be shipping off for MIT to start my first classes of college!

I haven’t posted on the blog for awhile, but that’s not for lack of things happening at Quizlet. Quite the contrary actually. Here’s the first big thing:

I’m announcing for the first time, right now, that Quizlet has taken a small investment from angel investors. We’ve spent the last few months working out a deal, and I’m happy to say everything has finally gone through and we’re ready to work together and make Quizlet even greater. Their input will help Quizlet grow to even more users and spur the development of even more useful features on the site.

One of our first tasks was to hire a dedicated support person. She’ll be coming on in about a week, and I’m sure she’ll introduce herself soon. One reason I’ve decided to take this investment is so that I can focus on programming and high-level business stuff. I also expect to be very busy at MIT, so I want to be able to maximize my Quizlet time toward improving the site. That’s not to say I’ll be out of touch with regular Quizlet users – I’ll still be on the site every day – but I’m going to be delegating more of the support tasks to our new head of support.

And because it’s just so hard to write a blog post without announcing some new features, I’ve cooked up some new things for ya’ll:

A sharing box on the set page. This box makes it easier for you to get your friends signed on and using Quizlet collaboratively.
Inline editing of the terms and definitions from right on the set page. You just double-click on a term, and it turns into an input box instantly. Hit return or click anywhere outside the input box and your edit will be saved.
Fixed a long-standing bug that made curly punctuation characters imported from Microsoft Word break when studying. Sets made from now on will not have this problem, but sets made previously will still have it. If you simply click Edit and then Save (without changing anything) on a set with this problem, it will fix itself.
Speed and memory usage improvements across the board.

And as always, there’s more in the pipeline that I can’t quite share with you. I hope you all are enjoying the summer!

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65 Responses to “Done with high school and on to MIT!”

June 16th, 2008 at 5:47 pm woojoo:

Congratulations! I can’t believe you’re only a year older than me and you’re already making something as awesome as this! Thanks for all the work you’ve given and I hope you keep improving Quizlet. Good luck in MIT!
June 16th, 2008 at 8:00 pm Joseph:

Congrats on finishing high school! If this website is any indication of your abilities, I’m sure you did quite well and will have an excellent college experience. I love Quizlet and look forward to any cool new features you might add!
June 16th, 2008 at 8:45 pm Neil Kelty:

Congrats on the graduation!
June 17th, 2008 at 1:42 am drummist:

AdReNaLiNe RuSh
June 17th, 2008 at 3:51 am pie55:

congrats on graduation I hope quizlet becomes better
June 17th, 2008 at 6:52 am cgaffey:

quizlet has made the end of the year rewiew so much fun for my students!! Thank you so much for creating an amazing site. You will be very successful at MIT! Enjoy!
June 17th, 2008 at 8:17 am alicia:

Congrats on graduating! A very lucky day, indeed!! MIT is going to be very lucky to have a person like you. I’m glad that you’ll keep updating Quizlet. Good luck, and remember to RELAX over the summer!
June 17th, 2008 at 11:34 am *your name herer*:

Congrats dude good luck out there!
June 17th, 2008 at 5:56 pm you wish you knew:

congrats on your friday the 13th graduation!
i cant wait to see quizlet grow more and more! you rock!
June 18th, 2008 at 11:17 am laxboy:

Congrats. Enjoy MIT
June 18th, 2008 at 1:19 pm me:

keep quizlet up!
June 19th, 2008 at 8:35 am Chillin07:

Congratualtions!!!
I heard MIT is so awsum.
Well good luck…smartz.
Hope u have fun there!
June 20th, 2008 at 8:23 am Magniloquent Master:

Good job…. I am also going to go to M.I.T. in 2008. I might meet you in campus some time.
June 20th, 2008 at 5:58 pm baseballisbeast:

have fun in MIT, and thanx for the add-ons to quizlet!! have fun.
June 20th, 2008 at 6:16 pm RJ:

Hey Andrew, on your “About Quizlet” page it says you are in high school but your not anymore. Am I right?
June 20th, 2008 at 6:47 pm Andrew:

Good catch RJ – I’ll take care of that…Thanks
June 21st, 2008 at 1:25 pm Drummer:

congrats andrew
June 21st, 2008 at 7:10 pm Micah:

Once again congrats on graduation and good luck with the future of quizlet and M.I.T. Andrew. I’ll do my best to keep in touch
June 22nd, 2008 at 2:37 pm Kiri:

Thank you for creating Quizlet!!
Good luck with it + MIT.
June 23rd, 2008 at 5:03 pm dab:

I think proper diction would be:

“Done with high school and off to MIT!”

I’m not sure though, please correct me if I’m wrong
June 23rd, 2008 at 5:46 pm Andrew:

dab – both work very well.

Ex. He is on to bigger and better things
OR: He is off to do something better.

“on to” is perhaps a shortening of “moving on to”
June 24th, 2008 at 9:30 pm phantomOmega:

Congratulations, and good luck at MIT.

One serious issue you should look into fixing is Firefox 3 support. I have been running Firefox 3 since Beta 4, and Quizlet has been completely broken (none of the Javascript seems to work whatsoever) since then.

I don’t believe this is an issue on my end — I have installed from a fresh version without addons, to no avail.

Quizlet has been a great help to me for studying in the past. I hope you get this issue solved soon so that I can continue to use your site in the future.
June 24th, 2008 at 11:35 pm Andrew:

phantomOmega – I’ve been using FF3 since forever as well, and I haven’t had any problems with Quizlet.

Please email me at andrew@quizl… and we’ll work it out.

-Andrew
June 25th, 2008 at 3:06 pm Maureen:

I’m an instructor who just discovered Quizlet and I’m excited to introduce my students to this resource.
Good luck at MIT–my husband is a proud graduate school alumnus!
June 26th, 2008 at 6:49 am baseballisbeast:

hey Andrew, this may seem kinda random, but what gave u the idea to start Quizlet? just wondering…
June 26th, 2008 at 7:30 pm Andrew:

baseballisbeast–check out http://quizlet.com/about/
June 28th, 2008 at 11:43 pm Alberto:

Congrats on graduating and getting in to MIT!!! I’m sure you’ll do great there! Just don’t forget us quizlet people hehe =)
June 29th, 2008 at 11:45 pm jim32:

congrats on your graduation have at MIT what ever that is.
June 30th, 2008 at 7:13 am -:

congrats!
June 30th, 2008 at 7:37 am caviking15:

we need a social studies forum
June 30th, 2008 at 9:56 am George:

Don’t you need, like, a job? How are you going to pay for MIT?
June 30th, 2008 at 12:52 pm Chillin07:

once againcongrats…:D
June 30th, 2008 at 12:52 pm Chillin07:

woops
sry
congrats
June 30th, 2008 at 1:31 pm jim32:

OH YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!! I remember the day when I graduated highschool. Man man oh man good times. College great times to, i just recently dropped out my Junior year. I was going to Stanford, they hated me. I was such a partyboy.

Hey guess what. You got eggnog in my goat milk.

Arent you the guy from blink 182

Ok well bye and congrats
June 30th, 2008 at 10:00 pm Anonymous:

congrats andrew! i remember the day my brother went to college. mom cried a lot… my cousin is actually thinking about coming to america for college (she lives in china).
July 1st, 2008 at 8:36 am CrazyGirl991:

Yay!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Congratulations!
U must be so Happy!!!!
Congratulations X 100
Clebrate!
It must be such a happy time to remember, i’m sure u will never forget that day!
July 2nd, 2008 at 5:27 pm Stacie:

Congratulations!!!! Look forward to more great things from you!!
July 2nd, 2008 at 7:36 pm Anonymous:

OMG!!!! UR SOOOO SMART!!!! Congratualtions and have LOTS OF FUN at MIT!!!!
July 3rd, 2008 at 7:55 am HEREandGONE:

WOO!
YAY GO U!
CONGRATULATIONS!
YAY
HAVE FUN AT MIT!
July 3rd, 2008 at 7:56 am sxylady101:

conagrats
July 3rd, 2008 at 7:56 am omgITSme!:

omg!
yay for u!
good luck in MIT
congratulations!
July 3rd, 2008 at 7:57 am always me:

HEY CONGRATULATIONS
u r One LUCKY dude
have fun
July 3rd, 2008 at 7:58 am There4U4Ever:

YAYAYAYAYAY
CONGRATUALTIONS
GOOD LUCK IN MIT!
July 3rd, 2008 at 2:14 pm :-):

Congrats! I wish i could be so lucky as to graduate this year! Good luck!
Best of wishes! !!!!!!!!!
July 4th, 2008 at 9:48 am heatherfeather:

way 2 go andrew! i graduated this year 2. quizlet helped me to achieve highest gpa in the 12th grade. I was valadictorian! i’m headed to princeton with 150,00 dollars in scholarships! i hope god protects you all through college and on into the world unknown! <3<3<3 Heather
July 4th, 2008 at 2:33 pm Aomi:

haha! aweosme, good luck, have fun!
July 6th, 2008 at 9:04 pm H.S. Kim:

Congratulations, both you and the quizlet!

and I’ll (I hope) see you there at MIT um… 2 years later!
July 7th, 2008 at 3:09 pm caviking:

hi
July 7th, 2008 at 3:09 pm caviking15:

good luck andrew
July 9th, 2008 at 9:55 am warning:

Andrew,

Be careful about the angel investment. Mainly, be careful about VC funding, it is extremely expensive (lots of hidden expenses) and your investors will push you into an IPO which would not be good for you. Keep Brainflare private, keep control of it.
July 10th, 2008 at 5:58 pm homemom:

Hello, I saw you on the M & J Show. Congratulations on graduating from High School. Good luck in College and your new ventures. I think this website is great, wish I located it earlier. Take care. Texas homemom
July 10th, 2008 at 7:49 pm Sonya:

Way to go! So many blessing went you way and you deserve a nice break. I also love this site you can’t believe how much it helps me with school. I wish too I discovered this site early in life. Have a great one and hope to see great things coming from this site.
July 11th, 2008 at 12:42 pm andrea doremus cuetara:

Wow. You are lovely and amazing and I am already using one of your quizlets (Native American Cultural Regions – not perfect but great enough) on my new wiki page site which I just learned about and created yesterday in a Boston Public Schools workshop.

It’s a whole new world out there and you are one of the groundbreakers!! Yay.

Most best wishes to you and all the potential growth. It seems like your head is screwed on right, which is the most important thing and pretty hard in today’s world. I hope my 11-year-old son, Malcolm (who I have always dreamed would go to MIT – he wants to study film at UCLA…whatever he dreams is the most important) will be even a little bit as kind, wise and sensible as you! Yay for you! adoremus@rcn.com
July 17th, 2008 at 7:25 pm janealam:

WOW. Congratulation and good wishes at MIT
July 23rd, 2008 at 4:48 am Adult Learner:

I hate you! Why did it take so long for you to create such a awesome site? Just kidding, I really wish I had known about this site when I went back to school 2 years ago to get my BS in Biology, it would have helped me tremendously. Best od luck at MIT.
July 23rd, 2008 at 12:55 pm Pollyanna:

awesome:!:
July 31st, 2008 at 6:05 am Sundeep:

Congratulations.

You are a very talented young man.

Best of luck with school, and hit a few parties if you can!
August 7th, 2008 at 12:03 pm Belle:

Congratulations! The world is out there for you. Thank you for creating this utility to help young and old (like me!) students learn and collaborate.
August 11th, 2008 at 6:11 pm Henry:

Wow. Quizlet is a very helpful tool! Good luck at MIT!
August 22nd, 2008 at 10:46 pm Anonymous:

–QUOTE:–
“I think proper diction would be:
â€œDone with high school and off to MIT!â€”
–QUOTE:–

He actually said it correctly… “On to MIT” He’s going to it, going “Off” to MIT is more of a slang. How do you go off something?

Btw just a little FYI This is a free service a youngster put together for all ages and did i say Free? This service is always getting improvements, he says in-touch… Even if Off to MIT was correct… who cares he’s doing a favor for you.
January 16th, 2009 at 8:32 pm Funkystuff_13:

awsome cool
January 19th, 2009 at 6:24 pm Cally:

Hi mrs. blair i think this is the right place to blog i unscattered the words in 17.2 seconds.
January 20th, 2009 at 6:27 pm bianca1737:

heyy
u rock andrew and all!
January 20th, 2009 at 7:51 pm booklovr:

hey andrew,
do you plan on bringing back private messaging? are there any new things that quizlet might have? if so are there links to where i can see that? quizlet rocks!

best wishes from the book lover
January 22nd, 2009 at 4:50 pm booklovr:

hey andrew and all,
wait nevermind i answered my own questions and checked out some videos!
see ya sorry! heheheh