The Financial Aid News!!!

During the university selection procedure for me, i registered for many financial aid websites and learnt a lot from them, though none of them provided me any aid ;). I got the aid on my own terms from my own department. However, an early search for financial aid for paying for tuition is extremely necessary. As i was checking along the October 2006 issue of the Financial Aid newsletter that i had subscribed long time back, there was this very interesting article talking about 5 ways to make some "spending money" while in college. Its more like a "beer money" as the article describes it ;) ..

Having a little extra spending money in college is always a welcome thing - a little extra cash for Saturday night, a nice lunch out every now and then, or even to make rent. Spending money can be relatively easy to come by if you know where to look. Here's 5 places online you can look for some "beer money"; for some, you won't even have to leave your desk! All of the programs listed here are free to join; no money ever leaves your pocket.

1. Got a blog? PayPerPost.com is looking for bloggers of all kinds to write short posts about all sorts of subjects. Posts can pay anywhere from $2.50 to $45 per blog post and you don't have to write much more than a couple of paragraphs. If your blog qualifies (at least 90 days old, at least one post a day, all public), you can apply for the program. I can say from personal experience, having earned $12 last month, that the program actually DOES pay you, which is nice.

Visit: http://www.PayPerPost.com

2. Know anyone who's graduated recently? The Student Loan Network's StudentATM program offers $100 per completed, returned student loan consolidation application. Get a few folks to consolidate their federal student loans, and get paid when they return their completed applications to the Student Loan Network. Our top participant has earned $17,000 since signing up in April 2006. (Our last check to them was for $7,600 - not bad for a month's work!)

Visit: http://www.StudentATM.com

3. Love music? Set up an iTunes affiliate account on your personal web site and ask your friends to purchase their music legally through your site. They'll pay the same amount, but you'll receive 5% of their purchases.

Visit: http://www.apple.com/itunes/affiliates/

4. Got a blog, web site, podcast, or other online presence with a specific industry focus? Commission Junction offers a huge number of products and services in nearly every industry. Find stuff you'd recommend anyway and promote it with special links on your site. You can earn anywhere from mere pennies to hundreds of dollars, depending on which programs you participate in.

Visit: http://www.cj.com

5. This one doesn't involve money, but it does involve free pizza. Google is looking for students to participate in their Google Ambassador program. In exchange for promoting Google to engineering, computer science, and technology students, Google will allow you to call in a study break pizza pretty much whenever you want. You'll also get Google schwag to wear on campus.

Visit: http://www.google.com/support/jobs/bin/static.py?page=students.html&sid=ambassador

I am just another lazy-bone for the Google ambassador thing. I got this blog , but i am not updated on a regular basis. If i measure my blogging time, it follows the random distribution. HMM , perhaps the Pareto distribution. loll .. Might that give a closer approximation to my blogging probability??? Researchers wanted !!! and i am not paying you a dollar !!! :) :)