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Discuss “StudyLoft.com: Online homework help”

You?re paying Carnegie Mellon $40,000 a year for high-quality education. If you?re as yet unsatisfied with the results, there?s a new place to exchange money for knowledge: www.studyloft.com.

Starting at 30 cents per minute, StudyLoft will pair you up with a tutor for an enhanced chat session, replete with virtual chalkboard. But don?t get too excited just yet; StudyLoft?s tutors have only been at the job a few months, and The Tartan?s initial test run showed they can only handle introductory-level questions.

StudyLoft is the creation of Bikram Roy, an entrepreneur who has ?always been keeping an eye out for successful business opportunities.? Roy recalled having to ?run around campus looking for help and staying up all night? doing homework....

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Comment 1. imtiyaz hussain
May 18, 2006 at 02:05 AM

i wanna become online tutor
what i have to do now

imtiyaz hussain
Mtech
CAD in structural Engineering
Jaipur
India

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