being more involved at uni and getting free coffee.

So my uni was looking for people to help write a blog with stuff going on at the uni, whether it be academic, or pretty much anything else really. We had to send in a sample post of something that had happened to us that week. Because I only attend uni two days a week now, and don't really feel like a real student not a lot happens to me when I'm there. The high point last week was filling up my coffee card so that I can now get a free one. But then there's always the problem of when to use it. So that's what I wrote about. Let me know what you think.
Credit to Liz, for without whom I never would've known the value of a free coffee.
Also, sorry for being a bit shit with the uploading. I have two days left of uni and then I'm done for a while so I should be a little less sporadic with the posts.

 On Friday I was faced with a choice that, for those of us who love getting free things, is incredibly difficult. We’ve all had to make the choice at one point. If you get it right, it has the potential to make your day, but getting it wrong could be disastrous in the future.  The choice: when do I use my free coffee on a loyalty card?

                From previous experience there’s basically two ways to approach this. The first I’ll call the ‘hell yes gonna get me some free stuff right away’ approach, and as the name suggests as soon as that card is filled up you claim the coffee straight away, and heaven help anyone that attempts to get in the way of you and free caffeine. The upside to this is that you’ll be a happy little caffeinated camper for the rest of the day. The downside, you’ll be questioning whether using the card then and there was the right choice. Which leads us to option two: the ‘broke joke’ approach, and my personal preference. If you choose this path it means that you have to wait a while to get that feeling of satisfaction in getting a free coffee, but it will be worth it. If you wait until you are completely broke (and let’s face it being a uni student that shouldn’t take too long) then the free coffee card is a beacon of hope. Despite the fact that you probably won’t have the money to buy food or pay rent, you still have that free coffee, and it’ll taste that much better, and nothing else will matter.

                So when I was faced with this choice on Friday, I naturally opted for the broke joke approach. And I know that the day I use that card to get my free coffee, broke Brad will definitely be thanking me for it.