OK, so despite the fact that I've decided to make movies for a living when I graduate, I still have to survive as an undergraduate researcher while I am a Psychology major at UConn. The toughest part of that job is getting participants for studies I have to run for classes. Sometimes I only need twenty or so volunteering souls, but sometimes I need hundreds.

I am also broke. This is an issue.

No funding will come from the school, and all the other kind souls in my life with money I tend to hit up for things that matter more to me (food, laundry, theater projects). So, I am left to search for free things...and so I turn to the Internet.

After some searching, I found a questionnaire service that, in addition to charging richer customers, allows non-profits and students to use their service for free. The catch? See the end of my post. All I had to do was link to them on my blog with their code. So I kinda tricked you, but it is still neat.

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