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By Lizette Resendez
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v ent that fornxr; weekend cash, Whitlock said some stu-
excluded m dints have been willing to pawn their
Aggie ring. However, he said there are
many laws that prevent thieves from
binging in stolen rings.
■ "The only way we take [Aggie rings]
is f it has your name on it,” Whitlock
said. ”A wife can’t bring in her hus
band’s.”
I Whitlock said the laws change every
year, and the police obtain a copy of
every item brought into pawn shops.
■ "If you bring in something that's not
yours, they’re gonna find you,” Whitlock
said. “We have cameras and your signature.”
I Eighty percent of Whitlock’s cus
tomers pay back their loan and retrieve
their items. Like many of Whitlock's cus
tomers, students looking for a little extra
cash have found other unique ways to
earn extra dough.
I Tressia Carr, a program analyst at the
USDA, decided to keep her belongings
and put her typing skills to work instead.
I “I needed the extra money,” Carr said,
‘f yping is something I really enjoy,
something that comes easy to me,” Carr
said.
I Carr has been advertising her typing
skills for three months and has since
typed up papers on civil engineering,
chemistry and biology. Carr said her
clients simply give her their written pages
and she types up their final product,
which may be put into different journal
formats. Her longest paper was 50 pages
long.
E Carr, who typically types 80 words per
minute, has had repeat customers among
students and professors due to her accura-
c> and speed.
I “1 guess it’s probably frustrating
because they’re not familiar enough with
word processing or their speed is just not
up,” Carr said. “They want to get it done
faster than they actually can do it.”
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Jennifer Sigler, a senior modern lan
guages major, offers her skills in German
and Spanish to students who need help in
their classes. Sigler, who spent two years
in Germany, received three phone calls
after having posted her ads for only 30
minutes.
Sigler said she has been fascinated by
foreign languages since she was young.
“When 1 was a little kid I would hear
people speaking different languages, I
would think it sounded like a secret code
and I thought that was really cool,” Sigler
said.
Sigler, who was originally a photogra
phy and graphic design major at a West
Virginia college, decided to transfer to
Texas A&M after realizing she could
obtain a degree in modern languages.
She has since studied Spanish for four
years and German for three years.
“When 1 started taking Spanish I real
ized that 1 wanted to be able to express
myself in different languages and read
books in those languages,” Sigler said.
She now charges $15 an hour but said
she is willing to work extra hard for those
who need extra attention and is also will
ing to lower her price for students with
financial aid.
“If somebody is only on grants and
scholarships then I’ll lower the price for
them, or they can bring another friend,
and I’ll tutor them both for $15 and they
can split the cost,” Sigler said.
Sigler said she enjoys giving students
in a large university the extra attention
they need to learn a foreign language.
“I have one girl who needs it at least
three times a week,” Sigler said. “Classes
at a state university are so large, people
really need one-on-one attention. They
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need people to explain everything in
detail.”
While Sigler helps people increase
their mental ability, David Bailey helps
increase their plasma supply. Bailey, a
sophomore general studies major, has
donated plasma about 10 times.
“I had a friend of mine tell me about
it, and I saw the stupid commercial,”
Bailey said. “So 1 began donating during
the summer. Now I just go back whenever
I can.”
Bailey said the first time he donated,
he was given $15 and every time after
that, his payment was increased by $5
increments.
Despite many students’ reservations
about needles and blood, Bailey said he
has not had any bad experiences while
donating plasma.
“A lot of people are scared of doing it
because they think it’s a painful proce
dure," Bailey said. "But it’s just like giv
ing blood, except you get paid for it. The
people that work there are very cool and
it’s a relaxing atmosphere, but they’re still
very professional and I haven’t had a bor
ing experience. They keep me entertained.
It’s not nerve-wrecking anymore.”
Bailey now tries to donate blood twice
a week. However, he warns that some
donors may become vulnerable to alco
holic beverages and strenuous activities.
“After you give plasma you can drink
one beer and be drunk,” Bailey said. “I
felt fine the first time I gave. I went and
played volleyball, but it’s different for
different people.”
Since Bailey began donating, several
of his friends have decided to join him.
“My friends think it’s a pretty cool and
easy way to get money,” Bailey said.
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