I can’t remember exactly how I first heard about Amazon Mechanical Turk. I want to say that I saw it first on Digg. I was first quite skeptical about MTurk because it seemed like a “get rich fast” sort of scheme. However then I saw that they paid you only in a few cents usually so I knew that it would take quite a bit of time to accumulate a significant amount of money. I first heard about MTurk probably about three or four months ago. I tried it out but then I stopped doing it for quite a while. But now it’s the summer time and I don’t have classes. So, that is why I gave MTurk a second chance. I found out that there are good days where there are a ton of good, quick, fast paying HITS, while on slow days, there is practically nothing but audio transcriptions. The pay for audio transcriptions is a little bit crazy, they pay you so little for the type of work you have to do. I tried doing an audio transcription but I gave up about halfway through. The highest paying hit that I have done thus far was one that rewarded ten dollars to look for professors that taught a certain course. I was so happy when it was accepted and my balance was ten dollars more! I’m trying to save up for a set of noise-cancelling headphones. Hopefully I’ll make enough soon, probably one or two more weeks. This HIT is pretty neat too, hopefully I’ll get paid for it!