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...then give me ideas about other ways to make it more fun...we can’t change the alcohol rules because of the City of Boston and the Boston Police, but we do want to make this tailgate great. I mean, it’s a 72-hour weekend, and the college is only officially regulating five hours of that...
...uninitiated, I’m one of those people who spends her free time taking the psychology and Harvard Business School studies that are sketchily advertised on bulletin boards around the University. A half-hour spent filling out a survey gets me $5 at William James Hall; the more lucrative Business School studies often pay me as much as $30 for an hour of participation. I do draw the line at the medical studies advertised on the T, but as much as I’d like to earn $500, I won’t do MRIs or stay awake...
Being a test subject requires sacrifices, including boredom (I once spent an hour staring at a computer monitor full of Ls to find a solitary T) and time that would otherwise be spent stalking the Facebook.com news feeds of my crushes. So why do I do it? For the satisfaction, silly—the satisfaction of knowing that I am a part of something larger than myself. Which really means that I’m in it for the money, just like all the other study subject whores who trek to the ninth floor of William James Hall...
...Business School is where the magic (i.e. the payout) really happens—my favorite study was an Appprentice-esque brainstorming session, where for $20, I spent an hour with three other people trying to think up an advertising campaign for an imaginary brand of flavored water. Another time I received $23 for negotiating a contract with another student...
...math incorrectly and gave my partner six dollars more than I should have. The time I got money for negotiating, I would have gotten more if only I have been better at getting my way. The time I listened to an artificial language for a half-hour without being able to understand any of it? My self-esteem took a hit with that...