The Quad is a free web platform that caters specifically to your college experience. It's social, scholastic, savvy, and streamlined.
Being one of the largest projects our studio was involved in, developing it for more than one year, it is a bit hard to explain everything which meant to us.
It offered the possibility of fully demonstrating our skills, as well as the opportunity to learn many other new aspects that a regular small/mid-size project would not usually include.
If we draw a line, we can fairly say that the application is a very good example of the Web 2.0 hype period. It offers every bit of social networking functionality that can be built up in a website coupled with high concern over security and information privacy issues.