Thursday, January 28, 2010

The test of a free pizza!

As a grad student, or even just a student, how many times in your life have you been to an event, for the sake of a free pizza... probably countless... and if you can count, not worth mentioning in a conversation! Why do we do this? Is it the money that you save by eating a slice of pizza- no way.. one slice of pizza at a tiem is not going to save you anything. Is it the taste?- maybe... but then taste would excite you only for so long. Is it hunger that drives you in the direction of the smell wafting through the air?- hmm sometimes... but very very rare. On the downside, its quite unhealthy- the major options being cheese and cheese with pepperoni. Being a veggie, I eat only the cheese pizza and think about the huge amount of fat calories that was accumulating in that belly of mine. The flip-side is that it is free- That is it! 'FREE'. That is the word that drives us to it.

This is probably better understood by shopaholics. We see a lot of things we like in stores. Every time we want to buy something, the worth of the product in relation to the price drives us away. However, when we see the tag free or sale, we throw everything else out of our mind and just go and get it. I guess that is exactly what happens when we see a 'Free' pizza.

Pros of a free pizza
1) It is Free
2) It is free
3) IT IS FREE

Cons
1) not healthy
2) they make you do a lot of stuff you dont want to do in order to get the free pizza
3) what the hell- its just a pizza

Considerations to decide if we want to go for the event with a free pizza-
Would any 'interesting' person attend it?
How crowded will the pizza line be?
Do they give free t-shirts along with the Pizza? or any other freebies
Is there anything of interest in the event to me?
Do I have to do any other important thing at that time?
These are probably my considerations in the order mentioned.

The test of strength is only when you are able to cross the first three questions and reach the 4th one.

I have given this problem considerable thought and decided I will go for the Mizzou activities mart sometime next week- serves free pizza!

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