Ryan Santos
@overly.ryan
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Lockheed Martin
Full-time Supplier
Cal Poly Pomona
Mechanical engineering
I paid off $46,000 in student loans in two and a half months, on money I made from a laptop while I was still in school.
That turned into a content business doing about $10,000 a month, with a peak month of $33,000. None of it started with money — it started with the free stuff below.
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Companies pay students to do real work next to classes: content, events, a campus community. Most run on semester cycles, so check each page for the current round. Updated 11/1/26.
Paid
Perks, credits and resume
The rare people with huge ambition who still play don't need to win to feel like enough. They want to win. This is how I'm moving from one to the other.
Networking gets you further than the name of your school. This is how I do it, even starting from nobody.
Log your heavy lifts and your conditioning side by side. Every week it tells you straight whether your conditioning is keeping up, or quietly falling off while the weight goes up. No signup — your log stays on this phone. Use Backup at the bottom to move it.
The ones from the video, with the dose I run. Log any of them below.
Keeping pace = at least one conditioning day for every heavy lifting day, and your conditioning minutes didn't drop while your lifting volume went up. Slipping = fewer conditioning days than lifting days, or conditioning minutes down 10%+ while lifting volume rose. Falling off = under one conditioning day per two lifting days, or conditioning minutes down 30%+ while lifting volume rose. The current week is judged on days only until it's over.
Lifts on the left, conditioning on the right — the whole point is seeing them next to each other.
Your log lives in this browser only. Download a backup file now and then, and load it on a new phone to pick up where you left off.
Six habits, every day, for six months. The habits, a 7-day blueprint to start, and a tracker you can screenshot.
The six habits
7-day blueprint
Daily tracker (screenshot it and check off each day)
| Habit | M | T | W | T | F | S | S |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wake up at 5 AM | ☐ | ☐ | ☐ | ☐ | ☐ | ☐ | ☐ |
| No phone for the first hour | ☐ | ☐ | ☐ | ☐ | ☐ | ☐ | ☐ |
| 10,000 steps every day | ☐ | ☐ | ☐ | ☐ | ☐ | ☐ | ☐ |
| 10 minutes with the Lord | ☐ | ☐ | ☐ | ☐ | ☐ | ☐ | ☐ |
| Work out | ☐ | ☐ | ☐ | ☐ | ☐ | ☐ | ☐ |
| Read and journal | ☐ | ☐ | ☐ | ☐ | ☐ | ☐ | ☐ |
I film, I go to bed, and two Claude editors cut the videos overnight. This is the setup, in the order I built it.
Almost a year, 40+ brands and 50M+ organic views. This is the order I'd do it in again, and none of it costs money to start.
Anybody can get a 3.5. Nobody can tell two of them apart. None of these need a lab budget, and every one is something you can open on a laptop in an interview and talk about for ten minutes.
Software and AI
Three lines. The third one is the reason anyone says yes. Fill in the brackets and send it — don't add anything to it.
Then, at the end of the call: “Before I let you go — who else do you think I should be talking to?”
That question is what turns one message into a chain of introductions. It is the reason this works more than once.
Three ways people kill it
I had no money for bootcamps going into my first internship search, so I built the resume off free platforms instead. All nine are free to start.
Save these for 1am the night before an exam. One of them is the reason I passed Calc 2.
They get more valuable as the list goes. Save this for the night you can't sleep, and watch the last one first.
Who's telling you this
I graduated from Cal Poly Pomona in August with a mechanical engineering degree.
Three consecutive summers at Lockheed Martin, in supplier quality. Before that, an internship at Intech Mechanical doing HVAC and sustainability compliance.
What I will be specific about is how I got there, because that's the part nobody shows you. SpaceX rejected me. So did a stack of other aerospace companies. I sent over a hundred cold LinkedIn messages and booked coffee chats with people at NASA, Tesla and Boeing before any of it worked.
I'm in the gym most days. Same thing as the rest of it — you show up on the days you don't feel like it, or the whole thing is just talk.
And I'm founder and CEO of Off Mute Studios, a business I built from nothing and still run. That's the part people assume takes talent. It takes a schedule.
Goals