Free food among college students is known as a great motivator, and so, in my experience, free food is often announced with most college activities. However, free food isn't vvery high on my list of motivators.
So today, when an activity was announced with free food I thought "probably won't go to that." And then they announced there would be free T-shirts. "Maybe I will go."
For some reason free T-shirts is oddly motivating for me. In highschool we got free T-shirts sometimes... they were usually white and I never wore them, but since then I have got some that I was pretty excited about.
PBS kids in the park (a service activity)
LDS Institute (a church educational class)
iDigNauvoo (a service/job archaeological dig)
PiDay (a Math department activity)
and a few others...
I think the reason I like free T-shirts is because they usually come with a group commitment or commonality. It makes me feel like I am part of something bigger like I talked about in an old blog post. Plus, wearing it after is a reminder of that commonality.
It's a little silly really, and perhaps odd because at other times I steer clear of shirts with words on them.... but free t-shirts are just different.
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