<p>I'm desperate for a job that will be respectably well-paying, fairly convenient to get to (from McCormick), and will allow me to hopefully get some coursework done during it. Any ideas? Thanks.</p>
<p>Well, being a deskworker would be the most convenient.</p>
<p>You can also get a job working at campus libraries. I had a friend who did that. She would check a few books out per hour and spend the rest of the time doing homework.</p>
<p>how do you get a job as a deskworker? (i’ve seen that you just need to ask around at the libraries for available jobs, but i’m not sure about dorm buildings.)</p>
<p>It varies from dorm to dorm. In my dorm, there was someone known as a “desk captain” who was an upperclass student who trained and organized all of the desk workers in a particular dorm, I am sure that most, if not all, dorms follow this pattern. This person usually puts out a call for applicants at the beginning of each year or semester. </p>
<p>The best way to figure it out is probably to ask the first deskworker you see how they got the job. =)</p>
<p>Honestly the jobs that most MIT students have are in the form of UROPs; you can read more about them on the UROP website. However, I think it might be a bit overwhelming to have a UROP for freshman fall, on top of your coursework and the adjustment to college life. But you never know :)</p>
<p>-An MIT sophomore</p>
<p>I worked in the foreign language library my freshman year, and I definitely had time to get work done. (Whether I actually got work done is, as always, another story.) It wasn’t as conveniently-located as a dorm desk job, but it was near many of my classes, so it worked out.</p>
<p>Is it possible to get on-campus jobs even if taking out a loan on the entire student contribution?</p>
<p>Your ability to get a job on campus isn’t impacted by whether you plan to actually contribute those earnings toward your tuition. For many (maybe most) jobs, it’s not impacted by whether you’re on financial aid at all.</p>