The Summer Student

I am risking filling my inbox with spam in an attempt to test websites dedicated to students.

More explicitly, getting free stuff, discounts and opportunities for students.

Today I have joined studentbeans, a website boasting 

exclusive student offers, deals and discounts for free.

Fine….fair enough….

The sections are broken up into sub-catagories like “eating out,” “Gifts and electronics“, “bars, clubs and pubs“, yada yada blah….

I have so far entered competitions for a free macbok pro- ‘cos you know, winning one eliminates any chance of having to pay for one- and had to go through 4 or 5 pages of subscriptions, ticking yes or no as to whether I would like to hear from around 40 other companies about their upcoming offers; a lengthy, boring process which took around 15 minutes as there are about 70 separate companies all wanting you to subscribe. 

Offers relating to food include free Millie’s cookies and 25% off Dominoes pizza, as well as a free beer at Nando’s when you spend £6 or over, 15% discount at the Slug and Lettuce, 20% off your bill at Bella Italia and 25% off your total bill at Yo!Sushi (a wonderful asian eatery that serves the most wonderful chocolate brownies).

All in all, quite a few good offers. And I am not one to turn down free crap.

There are also loads of offers relating to entertainment thingies:

2 for 1 cinema tickets at Odeon, 2 for 1 tickets at Cadbury World, Free DVD rentals from Lovefilm.com, and the opportunity to save 50% on West End shows amongst other things. It’s getting better…

There is also a section dubbed “market”:

We’ve scoured the web to find you a unique selection of online retailers that will help complement student life. We have reviewed loads of sites to make sure you’ll get the best deals, discounts and offers.

Which, sounds kind of like the aim of this blog, only in a more specialised kind of way. There’s a link to the “fun stuff” section (more competitions,) a “tv” section (articles for students, by students, including this rather weird video about Krispy Kreme doughnut promotions,)

and a link to facebook…which I guess everyone uses these days.

So the general consensus is that this site is quite good. Aside from the multitude of irritating advertisements and the multiple (compulsory) opportunities for subscribing to sites you have never heard of before and would rather never hear from again; Student beans offers quite a myriad of discounts and offers, all for us

YAY for Student Beans!

I hope I win that Macbook…