If you hear of something free

If you hear of something free, do it!!!

Free concert? Go hear some music.

Free food? Go have a bite.

Free movie? Go watch it.

Free seminar about an interesting topic? Go learn something.

Free class on underwater pottery? Go get your hands dirty.

Seriously... this applies to the basics, like getting the most of stuff you already paid for (free tickets to Tech sports games, free entrance to the gym, free admission to Housing-sponsored activities) but it also applies to stuff other groups are putting on that you aren't associated with.

Is there chalk on the sidewalk? Read it. You might find out about a really cool event.

Look at it this way. If there's a cool event that's free and you don't go, you've just missed out. For all you know, everyone else got to see President Bud Peterson singing the fight song backwards while riding a unicycle on a tightrope above a vat full of custard pie filling... you don't know, because you weren't there.

If you go to something that's free and it sucks, oh well. You lost an hour or two of your time, but it's not like you're out any cash. The next free thing you do still might be really cool.