{"id":1502,"date":"2014-02-25T11:55:03","date_gmt":"2014-02-25T15:55:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/admissions\/?p=1502"},"modified":"2014-02-25T11:55:03","modified_gmt":"2014-02-25T15:55:03","slug":"free-stuff-is-aweseome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/admissions\/2014\/02\/25\/free-stuff-is-aweseome\/","title":{"rendered":"FREE STUFF IS AWESEOME"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\">Orientations can be pretty boring so I don&#8217;t know if you heard this, but there are things at pretty much all colleges called &#8220;clubs&#8221;. Now wait, wait, I know it <em>sounds<\/em> a little lame BUT it really translates to &#8220;free awesome stuff&#8221;. Who doesn&#8217;t love free awesome stuff, especially poor students? Sure it takes some time out of your schedule, but it can be worth it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">For example, here in Italy, my school Lorenzo de&#8217; Medici has clubs ranging from the physical to the intellectual. I joined an Italian cinema club, so I basically get to watch an Italian movie for free every Monday. Considering movies cost $13 <em>minimum<\/em> and it&#8217;s a Monday night so what else am I going to do, it is a pretty good deal. Even more excitingly, I joined another club called &#8220;Regions of Italy&#8221;. For this, I get three or four <em>free<\/em> restaurant lunches! The owner of the restaurant explains the specialties of a specific region of Italy and then each dish we eat. Last week, the first meeting was dedicated to Northern Italy (Lombardy, Milan, Emilia Romagna, Modena, etc.). We tried pumpkin risotto (which I got the recipe for an am TOTALLY going to try to make &#8211; more on that later), peperonata, Parmesan cheese with traditional balsamic vinegar from Modena,\u00a0 two delicious wines (which I like to think helped me get that 98% on my first Italian quiz right after).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">I&#8217;ll admit that I was hesitant to join any clubs at first, but I am <em>so <\/em>glad I just went for it. I mean I had nothing to lose and I now have delicious free lunches! Did I mention they&#8217;re free?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">&#8211;Emily&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Orientations can be pretty boring so I don&#8217;t know if you heard this, but there are things at pretty much all colleges called &#8220;clubs&#8221;. Now wait, wait, I know it sounds a little lame BUT it really translates to &#8220;free awesome stuff&#8221;. Who doesn&#8217;t love free awesome stuff, especially poor students? 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