Students use scientific method to earn extra cash
By John Fulwider
Staff Reporter "
Roommates Brian Gudgel and Josh
Woodward have achieved college stu
dent nirvana. They make money with
out working or writing humiliating
letters to their parents.
(OK, they do a little of that, too.
Josh works about 15 hours a week and
Brian is, shall we say, between jobs.)
But much of their income comes
from their amazing scrounging abili
ties and their courage before needles.
Needy students—such as Josh and
Brian—can make quick clams if they
don’t mind selling bodily fluids or
lending their bodies to science for a
few days.
Frequent places students go are the
University Plasma Center, 1442 O St.;
NABI Bio-Medical Center, 300 S. 17th
St.; and Harris Laboratories, all places
that will draw your blood and pay you
for it.
Brian, a freshman child psycholo
gy major, donates plasma twice a week.
He spends about two hours donating
and recommended that donors show
up early in the morning to avoid lines.
To guarantee you will be accepted
for donation, Brian advised: “Don’t
have any potent drugs or alcohol with
in 12 hours of donation.”
Josh, a sophomore architecture
r
major, who also regularly donates plas
ma, said plasma donation wasn’t for
the weak of vein. He said if the needle
went through the vein and punctured it
on the other side, your arm would
swell for a week.
Plasma donation is best if you need
small amounts of cash, they said.
“I spend it on beer mostly,” Josh
said of the money he gets from donat
ing plasma. “Or to pay the electric
bill.”
But the real money comes from
participating in studies at Harris Lab
oratories, 624 Peach St.
It’s more difficult to get into a
Harris study because subjects must
meet certain requirements. The screen
ing process at Harris is quite stringent,
Brian said, and includes a urine test.
But Brian said he had successfully
substituted someone else’s urine sam
ple — Josh’s — to get into one study
when his bloodstream included more
than just blood.
Brian once participated in a 31 -day
antidepressant study, for which he
earned $3,700. The study gave him
new appreciation for antidepressants,
he said.
“Antidepressants make you unable
to concentrate on one thing or idea,” he
said. “You think about stuff like bread
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