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Here's the question and answers:
I did a bunch of things to make money during college, how did I make money ( very good money) in college during finals week specifically, while tricking Professors at the same time! Be specific!
The Answer:
If you had read my Previous posts you would have known I made money in College typing papers. But at that time in College they did not accept paper which had perforated edges from tracker feeds and did not accept dot matrix printer type for paprer in the English, Pol Sci, Psych, or other liberal arts classes.
The Key part is that it was during finals week and I tricked Professors. Well guess what I did type them on my computer and instead on printing them on school printers, I had my own epson 100. Which was one of the first dual feed programmable printers. Besides tractor feed I could use a friction feed to print paper on. In addition it was adjustable and allowed for upto 200 weight (thicke) paper to be printed on.
That still left a problem dot matrix printers of the day had a dead giveaway:
if a professor saw that you were dead.
As it turned out the Epson I was using had built in heavier typeface fonts that I could program and use in overstrike mode:
They were still way too light, so I changed the printer to double strike, and to hide the not crisp edge I printed on expensive linen paper, Which even fuzzy bleeds on IBM Selectric Type. Making it look very very professional. As if the student had gone to a printing company or typed it themselves perfectly.
Since at the time I was typing 80 words a minute and a page (double spaced no footnotes) was 20 lines. I was able to type a page every 3 to 4 minutes. I could type up a 20 page paper and print 2 copies in Proof mode for markup in 1.5 hours. So I charged $5 to start a project and $2 a page to type it up. And then $1 and for final Draft version. Any pages they wanted to modify later because I had it stored on floppy in a wordperfect file I only charged 25 cents for edits up to a paragraph in length and the $1 for each page reprint.
The best was when students had the papers handed back by the Professors saying they had a chance to submit revisions and they would come back again and again happy as a clams to have me do my magic after they spent all night doing rewrites! and because I had a duall floppy drive for a small fee $10 I'd charage or a magnetic copy on disk.
So I'd get $20 for a perfectly type 3 page report and for long 20 pagers, I'd make $50 to $90 depending on edits.
in 1982 I made in my sophomore year in the fall session during the week up to/and 2 finals weeks I pulled over $400, using my TRS-80 model 4 and fx-100 class.
Considering my tuition for the semester at SUNY Albany was only $750. That was a phenomenal money!
The closet to my answer and the winner of 5 SBI is:
who wrote:I" think by typing papers you may have made money during your college."
Considering in the last personal history, I had told everyone I made money typing in college, she really did not answer the question I posed! of how I made money at the end of the semester by tricking professors.
And that's by typing on my own COMPUTER and using high end materials, to make it look like it was done with a typewriter or professional printing service.
But considering no one else came anywhere near, She takes the prizw... CONGRATS...
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