Although this is the states, the same does apply in the UK
I live in a small town that hosts a small state university. School began for the fall session earlier this week. Even though I haven’t been enrolled as a student at any school for ten years I still enjoy it when the college kids start back. Since a significant percentage of my town is either enrolled at the college or works for the college, the town is really quiet, almost dead, for most of mid May to late August.
I went to the campus last weekend for the welcome back street fair. Got some cool freebies and got to see that practically every student organization, fraternity, academic department, and interest group had a booth and was represented. Surprisingly I got a lot of freebie handout coupons that we exclusively for students. Now I’m in my mid 30s so I was quite surprised that I got these deals in spite my…
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