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...Harvard-trained ear, TheFinalClub.org sounds like a Web site to keep students plugged into the Saturday night party scene. Unfortunately for social butterflies—but luckily for everyone else—the site is dedicated to the other side of Harvard: academics...
...TheFinalClub.org, created by Harvard grads Andrew J. Magliozzi ’05 and Jay K. Bacrania ’05, features extensive annotations on literary classics like Macbeth, the Federalist Papers, and the Bible. But the real meat of the site is the detailed, organized, play-by-play lecture notes on Harvard classes ranging from Science B-47: “The Molecules of Life,” to the ever-popular Psychology 1504: “Positive Psychology.” The site is blogged by ambitious students, and sometimes even course...
...seems counter-intuitive for the creator of a Web site devoted to annotating classic works of literature and blogging about popular courses at Harvard to be so opposed to an ostensibly comparable pursuit to his own. Sites like Sparknotes.com—another Harvard alum creation—and Cliffnotes.com have been around for nearly a decade, providing apathetic students a quick and easy 30-minute Idiot’s Guide to not sounding like a moron in class. But those sites are so...high-school...
...true that TheFinalClub.org fuels this lazy fire, giving students yet another excuse to skip class. The site, however, isn’t targeted at students looking for shortcuts. Luyi Zhang ’10 sees the site as a helping hand for hard-working Harvardians: “I don’t want to skip class. When I skip class, it’s because of lack of sleep or work. So a site like this really wouldn’t be an incentive for me to skip class. It would just be a nice safety barrier...
...Magliozzi swears by the latter, noting that creating shortcuts is not the purpose of the site. “The idea is not to give Harvard students a lazy way out,” he explains. “It’s to give really intellectually, academically curious Harvard students a way to engage more...