Work-Study

Definition

A financial aid program that lets students earn money by working campus jobs that range from filing papers to pretending to file papers. It teaches valuable skills like looking busy, mastering the copy machine, and accepting that $9 an hour is considered generous in academia.

Example Usage

"My work-study job in the registrar's office has taught me two things: how to use a fax machine from 1994 and that higher education runs entirely on passive-aggressive emails."

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