As
a student, the time you have available to earn money depends on
multiple factors: the difficulty of your course, your productivity
level, how much time you allow for social events and so on.
For
me it would have been impossible to work on a daily basis to earn
money. However, there was this one thing that I did and enjoyed doing.
Imperial College - Undergraduate Teaching Assistant
- Small group tutorials— As part of the Computing degree, first-year students are bundled in groups of 8 and associated with a Personal Programming Tutor and a Personal Maths Tutor. These two tutors supervise weekly one-hour tutorial sessions for their group and the tutorials are ran by Undergraduate Teaching Assistants (UTAs). UTAs are 3rd or 4th year students who achieved a certain grade in their previous years of study. The responsibility of UTAs are correcting weekly assignments and handing them back to the first-years (approx. 4 hours per week) and conducting the tutorial session (1 hour per week).
- Lab times— First-years are also provided certain timeslots for lab exercises, where 3rd and 4th years are available to help them. There’s 4–6 hours of lab every week and you can help in as many as you wish.
For
each hour, the students are paid about £14. This means that you can get
about £70 per week for 18 weeks (2 terms—9 weeks every term), totalling
£1260.
Alternative ways of earning money
- Several students tutor high-school or middle-school students for their exams. The rate seems to be in between £20 and £30 per hour, but requires much more commitment—while the schedule for UTAs is considerate of the workload and exam schedules, tutoring a student who has an entirely different schedule might prove difficult.
- Turing lab is a fixed schedule opportunity. A lot of the mentors are Computing students.
- The standard “develop an app”, “write a blog” and stuff like that applies for students as well. I haven’t done any of those so I am unsure how much effort it involves.
Good luck!
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