Campus jobs?

TomServo
Tue, 12 Jun 2012 03:31:07 +0000

About to start a (paid) undergraduate research internship, which is kind of like having a job.
I’m not doing it for the money (although I do need the money) but for the research experience. I didn’t even know undergraduate research serfs were paid. I will not be doing any classes while I’m doing this, but once the Fall semester starts up I will be doing about 5-10 (at the most) hours a week in the lab. For the summer I’ll be working ~30 hours a week.
Depends entirely on your school. On a huge campus like mine it’s not so much finding one as not being overwhelmed by choice. So many jobs on campus are not even advertised, the positions are filled by students the professors (who whomever) already know. And the bigger your school, the greater the diversity of jobs. I know a guy who is involved in the physics departments computer systems, he works with the purchasing and ordering and so forth. I know another guy who does some kind of scripting for somebody in the physics department. I know a guy who grades computer science assignments. Before I transferred, I was a math and physics tutor.


Ask your academic advisor about jobs on campus. One place to start is the tutoring office, I think most schools of a big enough size offer free peer tutoring to students. That’s what I did. Some peer tutoring systems are kind of “first come, first serve” where the tutor just helps people in a big tutoring room with various problems, sometimes it’s more formal where you have appointments. I had scheduled appointments. I’d work with mostly remedial math students one-on-one twice a week, paid about 7.50 an hour.