University researchers with budget can add another Undergrad Research Assistant or similar at any time for any reason. Pay will be SUBSTANTIALLY under what industry offers right now. Feel free to hit up your favorite profs and ask who needs a productive coder to do scutwork. (It will be scutwork.)
I also recommend you going forward swap how important you think Github and personal networking are. Assume sending in an unsolicited resume doesn't even count as "applying." I know, this is the opposite of what the academy has taught you to expect, but they are a funhouse mirrors version of the wider economy.
I also recommend you going forward swap how important you think Github and personal networking are. Assume sending in an unsolicited resume doesn't even count as "applying." I know, this is the opposite of what the academy has taught you to expect, but they are a funhouse mirrors version of the wider economy.