I know lots of my friends are graduating from college this year and are now frantically looking for something to do. I’d like to remind you all of a great way to make some money this summer. Here is a hint: Did you know that Google is one of the best companies to work for in the world? Their corporate saying is ‘Do no evil’ (unlike some companies). While they are supposed to do good and great things, an axis of corporatevil (7 major companies) have recently allied against Google and YouTube.
Not scared in the least, this summer Google is hosting its 3rd Summer of Code. Over 100 companies are offering summer jobs working in high tech fields all over the country. Your work will land you $4,500 and a primo reference/resume boost. If I were coming back to the US, I’d be all over this job opportunity!
Get your applications in now, closing day is March 26th!
in more recent news, Valleywag is reporting that all is not well inside of Google, with new second-class employees. This might cost Google their best company status.
Internets, Tech, Work
Ever wanted to study at an extremely prestigious, expensive, cutting edge university? By the end of this year, MIT will have all its courses available online for free. Every class that some of the smartest and luckiest people in the world take is at your fingertips.
What you don’t get is contact with a professor. Or even his lectures, only his lecture notes. On top of that, there isn’t anyone to grade your assignments and when you’re all done you’ll have no degree to show for it. I kinda wish there was someone to grade the work (pass/fail) so I could put it on my resume “Oh, you know, I take some OpenCourseWare classes through MIT online in my free time.”
Why am I not ’studying’ there right now? Well, there are 3 major expenses during college. Food, entertainment and books. The courses don’t come with free copies of the reading material and textbooks are probably the biggest unopposed monopoly I know of. Mostly because college students don’t vote and old people don’t mind gouging them for all they can.
Internets, Work
While I didn’t go anywhere over spring break, I did have an excellent time. I spent everyday here at the American Home, applying for jobs, working on my presentation and chatting with friends from home. Now I’m back and we start out this week with a root canal.
Not a real root canal, but probably longer and more painful. American Home teacher meetings are something to dread. Someone with influence reads my blog, and suggested we make some changes to our meetings, namely having teachers have something in mind to talk about. Yay, right? Wrong, it caused the meeting to run incredibly long repeat information over and over again.
I’ve added a poll widget to my blog, over there on the right. I’m personally a fan of short meetings, but I’m interested in how long people think general work meetings should last. It’s also a lot easier to vote than to comment.
Internets, Work
As of this moment, I have graded exactly 1 midterm of the 40 some odd I need to have done by tomorrow. I might take some home, I might come in early tomorrow, or I might leave it until late tomorrow like I always do. It gets done, everyone is happy.
In the meantime, I’ve been stumbling across the internets and found 2 websites which I wanted to bring to your attention. The first is 245 countries in 10 minutes. It starts right when its done loading, so start typing right away, no abbreviations. I know they say most Americans don’t know jack about world geography, I tend to agree but I want to test this theory. Please comment on how many countries you got. Anything under 100 in ten minutes is shameful.
The other website is about the top 12 awesomest games of 2010. Yes, 2010 isn’t around yet, but the games and images shown here are amazing, and most of the game concepts are sound and I’d love to play almost all of them!
Update: For the curious, I got over 150 in ten minutes.
Games, Internets
Every blog, website and company on the planet has to let people know about its products and services. Advertising is worth billions of dollars, internet advertising alone is in the 10s of billions. If I’m ever to make any money, I’m going to have to take some of yours.
Thats terrible, I know. I don’t want to do it. Well, I don’t want your money specifically. You understand I’m sure. In fact you’ve probably already realized the inevitability of the situation and already clicked on the google banners (and maybe even turned off adblock to do so) or even sent an e-mail request about website hosting to ME.
If you wanted yet another way to show your support for me travelling the globe you could buy something from my store or now, you could leave me a comment on my new website GatewayGames.net. The next big step for tabletop RPGs.
For some reason I like brackets at the end of articles. Makes it seem more official, no?
[Gateway Games]
Economics, Games, Internets
